Pennsylvania Likely to Put School Tax Increases in the Hands of Voters

05/26/11 Pennsylvania school districts that might get hammered once the state budget becomes finalized might be forced to justify high tax increases if the state government has anything to say about it, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Will New Jersey's Chris Christie Run for President?

06/26/11 COMMENTARY | Is it time for Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, to throw his hat into the presidential ring? Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Michael Smerconish thinks the time is right for the portly fiscal conservative and tough talker.

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D.C.-area men sentenced in fatal Pa. home invasion

06/28/11 Two men from the D.C. region have admitted their roles in a home invasion in the Philadelphia suburbs that left one of their group dead. Niochie Lawson, 24, of Laurel, and Jakal Stone, 21, of Hyattsville, were each sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbery and weapons charges in the June 2010 attack, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports . The men were trying to steal ...

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