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Inquirer Business - September 5, 2010 - 2:03pm
In a marketing flurry that may presage what's in store for Peco Energy Co. customers later this year, discount power suppliers are jolting New Jersey residents with offers to undercut the prices of traditional utilities.
Inquirer Business - September 5, 2010 - 1:27pm
Bill Rhodes, a municipal-bond lawyer at Ballard Spahr L.L.P. who has been laboring in the trenches of government finance for nearly two decades, says he has never seen things so dicey.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 9:51am
The Delaware River Port Authority has contributed about $775,000 since 2004 to civic and social agencies, often to groups with close ties to DRPA board members and executives.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 9:49am
The rules that govern workers at the Convention Center have long confounded planners wishing to bring their business to Philadelphia. Even those who have learned the byzantine code marvel at what it takes - and what it costs - just to set up and dismantle an exhibit.
Inquirer Business - September 5, 2010 - 9:23am
If you've recently had your house reappraised for sale or refinancing, and wonder where the equity went, consider this: Since the real estate boom ground to a painful close about 31/2 years ago, the nation's housing stock has shed from about $4 trillion to $7.1 trillion in value.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 7:43am
For decades, Philadelphia public schools failed to properly educate large numbers of students. Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is betting that come Tuesday, the tide will begin to turn for the 2,700 pupils who will start a new term at six Promise Academies.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 7:19am
They prepared for more traffic, extra crime, and gambling addiction. But officials in Bucks County say that while planning for the 2006 opening of Parx Casino in Bensalem, they never anticipated this.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 7:10am
A female patron who had been ejected from an after-hours dance club fatally injured a woman early Saturday after plowing her car into a crowd outside the North Philadelphia nightspot, police said.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 7:01am
The four-story fruit column stood tall, the pilsner flowed, the bratwurst sizzled, the polka dancers polkaed, and the wheel of meat spun, spun, spun.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 6:36am
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Inquirer Editorial - September 5, 2010 - 5:43am
Bret Schundler is a man of impressive administrative and political credentials hired only this year to head the New Jersey Department of Education. None of that stopped Gov. Christie from firing him over a bureaucratic error a little more than a week ago.
Inquirer Business - September 5, 2010 - 5:23am
Jiffy Lube cofounder and Philadelphia University president Stephen Spinelli Jr. got the luckiest break of his life in college. And the very thought of it drives him crazy.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 3:01am
They are collateral damage in the war on terrorism - victims, they say, of an overzealous Justice Department. "What has America become?" Ferik Duka asked Tuesday as he stood with about two dozen relatives and friends at a protest rally in front of the federal courthouse at Sixth and...
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 3:01am
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Trenton-Ewing ranks fifth among "America's Brainiest Metros," up there with Boston and other cosmopolitan citadels of scholarship.
Inquirer Business - September 5, 2010 - 3:01am
You can lose money in the safest of bonds, even U.S. Treasury bonds and general-obligation municipal bonds. I'm not talking about the potential for the world's debt problems leading to governments' collapsing and failing to pay interest. Rather, I'm referring to the way people usually lose money in...
Inquirer Editorial - September 5, 2010 - 2:03am
Social Security has become a political ping-pong ball again in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race and in congressional races around the country.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 2:03am
Sanctuary. Monks sporting multicolored mohawks dance with fire, walk on water, and perform aerial acrobatics in the wildly imaginative, Cirque du Soleil-ish Sanctuary, performed by Brian Sanders' company, JUNK.
Inquirer Business - September 5, 2010 - 2:03am
Boy, the liberal press is steamed this summer. The U.S. Senate is an "empty chamber," says the New Yorker. "Washington is broken," drowned in "systemic corruption," says Vanity Fair. The Senate took a whole "year-and-a-half" to pass financial and health-care...
Inquirer Editorial - September 5, 2010 - 2:03am
For as long as I've been a journalist, I've been covering the Mideast peace process. I was at Ben Gurion airport in 1977 when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed, and on the White House lawn in 1993 when Bill Clinton, Yasir Arafat, and Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo accords. Back then, a two-state...
Inquirer Business - September 5, 2010 - 2:03am
Are we in for inflation or deflation? The question continues to pester us as the economy wobbles. These sites explain the pitfalls of each, and how wary investors might guard against them.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 2:03am
There's no official word from Bravo, but I have it that Jennifer Carroll - chef at 10 Arts in the Ritz-Carlton on Broad Street - is back for more on Top Chef.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 12:34am
If I were serious about drafting a plan for life after newspapers, I'd scout and incorporate strip-mall space near area casinos for a chain of drop-in 24/7 child-care centers.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 12:34am
HARRISBURG - Only a few years ago, it seemed unthinkable that Pennsylvania's capital city could be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
Inquirer Local and Regional News - September 5, 2010 - 12:34am
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Inquirer Editorial - September 5, 2010 - 12:34am
The Sunday opinion section, Currents, will take a break this weekend. It returns Sept. 12.