- With SEPTA strike over, fare hikes loom
- Crowds gobble up free SEPTA tokens
- How Pa. can prevent the next SEPTA strike
Now that buses, subways, and trolleys are running again after a six-day transit strike, SEPTA riders can brace for the next unpleasantness: a fare hike.
- With SEPTA strike over, fare hikes loom
- Crowds gobble up free SEPTA tokens
- How Pa. can prevent the next SEPTA strike
For all the political drama and inconvenience it caused, the SEPTA strike may have been just a curtain-raiser to a bigger act of labor strife, featuring the City of Philadelphia and 22,000 unionized city workers.
- With SEPTA strike over, fare hikes loom
- Crowds gobble up free SEPTA tokens
One year after Mayor Nutter announced the closure of fire companies, pools, and libraries to fight a financial crisis of "incredible proportions," his administration announced yesterday that Philadelphia will face a $31 million deficit unless further reductions are made next year.
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SEPTA commuters "thrilled" strike is over
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Evening commuters at Suburban Station were no longer plagued by the snaking queues of riders who had been forced during the six-day SEPTA strike to switch from idled buses, trolleys, and subways to Regional Rail lines.
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The lesson from the streets: Big money is not the answer
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Friends, what have we learned this past week? Plenty. Pundits will tell you that Chris Christie won New Jersey's gubernatorial race and Jon Corzine lost it because there's a backlash against President Obama's agenda.
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BRT vote clouded by Sunshine Act
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The Board of Revision of Taxes appears to be taking its time to fix a little problem with the state Sunshine Act.
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Strike: A risk worth taking?
- Experts said SEPTA workers had little to lose because they could not easily be replaced.When 62 pipe and steel workers at Precision Tube Co. in North Wales walked off the job Aug. 7, the economy had just dropped 274,000 jobs. Unemployment was nearing 10 percent, and almost 14.5 million people were out of work.
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Brown's got nerve
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Heller: You have to admire the massive brakes of SEPTA union boss Willie Brown. He refused to negotiate with Michael Nutter, dubbing him "Little Caesar." Little Caesar? The 1931 gangster movie starring Edward G. Robinson? Or the purveyor of 3 Meat Treat Pizza and Crazy Bread?
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Progress seen in SEPTA strike talks
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SEPTA and its striking workers seemed to edge closer to a settlement yesterday, as Gov. Rendell and U.S. Rep. Bob Brady worked to broker a deal that would get buses, subways, and trolleys running again.
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Williams outlines his plans for D.A. office
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For a glimpse into Seth Williams' vision for the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, look west. In his first detailed interview since winning election Tuesday, Williams said he would not immediately make wholesale changes in the operation - 300 assistant prosecutors, 250 support staff - that he will inherit Jan. 5. But he does want to quickly replicate the "best practices" he observed on recent visits to the prosecutors' offices in San Francisco and San Diego.
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Council asks Nutter to restore leaf pickup
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City Council found an issue it could jump into yesterday: whether residents of the city's leafy neighborhoods should have to bag their fallen foliage.
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'Most hated' man in the city
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Willie Brown used to drive a trolley. Now he's steering a union through a transit strike that's made him, as he says, "the most hated man in Philadelphia."
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Republicans have reason to crow about Tuesday
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Was it only a year ago that, on the day after an election, Republican State Chairman Robert A. Gleason Jr. said he had never felt so glum about GOP prospects in Pennsylvania?
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Local judgeships were no contest for Dems
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As expected, it's Williams for D.A.; Butkovitz re-elected
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Butkovitz waltzes to reelection as controller
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Nutter, Rendell blast SEPTA union for surprise strike
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SEPTA strike: Bad to worse
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Seth Williams wins race for Phila. D.A.
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Phila. agencies told: Cut next year's spending by 7.5%
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Results of Phila. judicial elections and retentions
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Voters sit out in force, giving reasons aplenty
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