Governor Ed Rendell signs the 2008-2009 state budget that increases spending on education and authorizes billions in new borrowing. (AP)
Gov. Rendell yesterday signed a $28.3 billion spending plan that sends an unprecedented $274 million to schools, and includes billions for clean-energy projects, bridges, and more.
The budget, signed July 4, averts furloughs for roughly 25,000 state workers and public schools get the largest boost in two decades.
The budget, signed July 4, averts furloughs for roughly 25,000 state workers and public schools get the largest boost in two decades.
Is this a solid budget for Pa.?
The rising cost of living - especially gas prices - has driven locals at the Shore to seek positions they ordinarily wouldn't have considered.
Fabric research indicates that the tent anchored at the visitors' center at Valley Forge may not have been the tent used by Washington during his stay in 1777-78.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Every business looks for a trademark, and Matthew Danchanko has spent five years toiling to make quality the mark of his general contracting company in Johnstown.
Some teenagers no doubt whiled away the first few weeks of summer vacation at home, headsets on and controllers in hand, doing video combat.
One of Hong Kong's most prominent democracy advocates said Sunday she will not seek re-election after her term in the territory's legislature ends this year.
Readers respond to Chris Satullo's opinion column A not-so-glorious Fourth, in which he suggests making this Fourth of July a day of atonement for what he labels the United State's use of torture. Read the column
Some 12 million honey bees were released along Canada's largest highway on Monday after a truck transporting them overturned, police said.
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Phil Sheridan: Say this about Ryan Howard. He's never boring.
In another big game against the rival New York Mets Saturday night, Howard was everything that makes fans wring their hands and clap their hands.
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Florence P. Hanford, 99, of Glen Mills, Philadelphia's - and possibly the country's - first television cook, died Tuesday at Rose Tree Place, an assisted-living residence in Media.
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With four months left until Election Day, the electoral map is tilted in Barack Obama's favor, giving him more paths to win the presidency than John McCain.
Claiming that "the political landscape has changed" in the battle over casinos in Philadelphia, Gov. Rendell said yesterday that he will meet with operators of two proposed gaming houses about abandoning their Delaware River sites.
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