<strong>Cheers</strong>: When a portion of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia collapsed earlier this month after a truck carrying gasoline overturned and ignited, most officials projected that the loss of the overpass would close the highway for weeks, leading to major ...
Money is not the only answer.With government, it often seems that way. No matter what the problem may be, there are any number of solutions that can be proposed. Most of them have big-ticket spending attached, which can end up on the chopping block later when the problem being solved is the ...
Pennsylvania law requires the state government to fund services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism, along with a moral obligation to help provide for some of its most vulnerable citizens.It鈥檚 failing on both scores. At the same time that the state government has more than $5 ...
Earlier this week, the business magazine Fortune reported on a young Philadelphia-area couple that has been looking for a house in southern New Jersey for the last two years, and have had absolutely no luck.They have come up empty-handed even with a budget of $600,000, outdone in one furious ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Most of us work for both love and money 鈥� we hope to be stimulated and engaged by the work we do and earn enough to pay the bills, purchase a few small luxuries along the way and retire with some security. Dr. Charles Machesky, the ...
As always, public education funding will be a centerpiece of the impending state budget battle. And, as always, many legislators will lament the negative impact of rising school property taxes, and then decline to do anything about it.One element of school financing they should and easily could ...
