By The PhillyPublic Record – The Democratic National Convention Committee has qualified 26 hotels as sites for its approximately 6,000 delegates and alternates participating in Convention week activities at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia Jul. 25-28. Fifty-seven state delegations…
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Prison Time for Contractors Convicted in Deadly Building Collapse
By James Jennings – Griffin Campbell and Sean Benschop were sentenced to 15 to 30 years and 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison, respectively. Contractors Griffin Campbell, 51, and Sean Benschop, 44, were both sentenced to long prisons terms…
Labor Law Is Failing Us. It’s Time To Push for a New Labor Act.
BY Shaun Richman – The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) was a bad bill, and it is deader than dead. It is time for labor to propose a comprehensive set of amendments to the nation’s primary collective bargaining law, the…
Bobby Henon’s Promotion Is a Big Deal The Johnny Doc ally is Council’s new majority leader. Here’s why that matters.
By Holly Otterbein – City Councilman Bobby Henon got a promotion this week: His Democratic colleagues unanimously elected him to be their new majority leader, a position on the body that is second only to Council President Darrell Clarke. You’re…
Wolf administration makes down payment on education funding, favoring districts hurt by cuts
By Paul Socolar – Following up on Gov. Wolf’s line-item veto of a Republican budget package last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Education has released its plan for distributing six months’ worth of education aid to school districts across the…
