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A group of workers at Thomas Jefferson University who are paid to simulate patients for medical students celebrated a victory earlier this year when they won a union election. But six months later, they say they're struggling to be taken seriously in bargaining...

When the British Consul General arrived at 3rd and Walnut streets on a drizzly Viernes morning for a ribbon cutting of the newly imagined Benjamin Rush Garden, she felt right at home. Not only is the garden dominated by a bell donated in 1976 by Queen Elizabeth II, but...

“Who sits there and thinks, with all the needs we have in America, of criminalizing the homeless?” wonders Pastor Robert Brown of Bristol’s Bible Evangelical Methodist Church after learning that the United States Supreme Court approved punishing those experiencing...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Democratic senators in Pennsylvania are drafting a bill to prevent the criminalization of homelessness in the state after the Supreme Court recently ruled that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places.

HARRISBURG, PA — In response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, several Pennsylvania state senators announced plans to introduce legislation aimed at preventing the criminalization of homelessness. The proposed law would counteract the Supreme Court’s decision in...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson that cities can punish people for sleeping in public has some Democrats in Pennsylvania seething. The high court said laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment,”...

Dear Democratic Senate Leaders, As the 2024 budget season kicks into high gear, we are writing to ask that you work to ensure that renewable energy legislation and climate solution policies currently pending in the legislature are included in any final budget...

Preservationists and developers are keeping their fingers crossed for new state funding to revitalize historic buildings. Two bills introduced this month would significantly raise the annual cap for the state’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit program, a public...

HARRISBURG - Los senadores estatales aprobaron un proyecto de ley para proteger las inversiones de Pensilvania en Israel y empresas relacionadas, que permitiría a los legisladores retener fondos potencialmente millonarios de cualquier universidad que...

Las protestas estudiantiles en los campus universitarios pidieron a las universidades que retiraran sus inversiones de Israel por la guerra en Gaza. Mientras que algunas escuelas aceptaron al menos discutir la desinversión, las instituciones de educación superior de Pensilvania no tendrán la opción si un proyecto de ley continúa...

(The Center Square) - Los recientes comentarios críticos de altos funcionarios estatales, incluido el Gobernador Josh Shapiro, no han disuadido el apoyo palestino entre los legisladores progresistas y los grupos de defensa en Pensilvania. A principios de este mes, los senadores. Kristin Phillips-Hill,...

Desde el banco de un parque a la mesa de un restaurante en las alturas, pasando por un simple asiento en un autobús de SEPTA, estos son los lugares donde prefieren sentarse los habitantes más notables de Filadelfia. Nos pusimos en contacto con algunos notables de Filadelfia para descubrir sus lugares favoritos para sentarse y disfrutar de la ciudad. Desde un banco del parque a un...

Este fin de semana, la Biblioteca y Museo Rosenbach acoge su maratón anual de lectura del "Ulises" de James Joyce, un evento que se celebra cada año el 16 de junio, o Bloomsday, el día del calendario que vive Leopold Bloom durante toda la novela. El Rosenbach posee...