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Philadelphia Lawmakers Eye Changes To City’s Business Taxes
Introduced today in Philadelphia City Council: a plan that could radically alter the city’s business tax by shifting some of the burden from local firms to large, national companies. But the idea faces...
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Philadelphia City Council Votes To Close Loophole In City Election Finance Law
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia City Council today passed a bill to close a loophole in the city’s campaign financing regulations that allowed campaign donors to give more than the legal limit to...
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Nutter’s Timetable For Fixing Property Taxes Draws Criticism
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – At least one critic doesn’t think Mayor Nutter’s timetable is adding up, for fixing real estate tax values in Philadelphia. During his stint in the barrel at council budget...
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Philadelphia City Council Committee Meets To Discuss Approval Of New Bike Lanes
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – As Philadelphia today hosts the big bike race, city officials are in the midst of a battle over adding new bicycle-only lanes to some Center City streets. A City Council committee...
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Philadelphia Councilmembers Grill Schools Chief As Funding Controversy Deepens
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Schools superintendent Arlene Ackerman went before Philadelphia City Council today, hat in hand, asking for a $102-million bailout. But Council members are openly questioning...
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Nutter Addresses Philadelphia, City Council Still Looking For Alternatives To...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter made a televised address Wednesday night to promote his budget and education agenda. “The conclusion is inescapable, the school district needs...
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Philadelphia City Council Wraps Up Hearings On Zoning Code Makeover
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia City Council has wrapped up its hearings on a plan to rewrite, top to bottom, the city’s antiquated zoning laws. Community groups concerned about losing their voice in...
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Philadelphia To Tweak Ethics Rules To Include Same-Sex Partners
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia City Council, at the urging of the mayor, is moving to close a small bureaucratic loophole involving same-sex partners of city government workers. Life partners of...
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Philadelphia Lawmakers Move Toward Alteration Of City’s Business Taxes
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - With Philadelphia’s jobless rate in double digits, a City Council committee has okayed significant changes to the city’s business tax structure — and Mayor Nutter is on board as...
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Hoagies Lead To Light-Hearted Battle On City Council Floor
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The age-old question of whether a hoagie is better than a cheese steak has apparently been settled in the hoagie’s favor on the floor of City Council. National Sandwich Day came...
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Philadelphia’s Zoning Code Overhaul Moves Forward In Council
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – After four years of work, a top-to-bottom overhaul of Philadelphia’s antiquated zoning code gained an initial approval today in a City Council committee. But the...
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Nutter’s Next Budget Includes $20 Million For Love Park Makeover
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Mayor Nutter wants City Hall to make JFK Plaza more user friendly. His administration proposes to spend $20 million over two years for design work and the renovation...
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Amid Plan To Revamp Philadelphia Property Assessments, Questions Of Higher Taxes
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Mayor Nutter’s budget experts were in the hot seat today as Philadelphia City Council opened hearings on Nutter’s plan to revamp the way property assessments are...
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School District Pleads With City Council For Extra Funding
By Mike DeNardo PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — School District leaders met with City Council members Thursday, to try to persuade them to support Mayor Nutter’s Actual Value tax plan and the extra $94-million it...
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Debate Over Property Tax Overhaul And School District Funding Rages On
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The rhetoric is rising in City Council in the debate over whether to overhaul Philadelphia’s property tax structure in a way that gives the School District an extra...
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Councilman Posts Spreadsheet Showing Impact Of Mayor’s Tax Plan On Residents
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A city councilman who is battling the mayor over how to overhaul the property tax system is offering residents a spreadsheet to show how they may be affected by the...
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Philadelphia City Council Feels Squeeze of Budget Deadline Amid Open Questions
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — With a June 1st deadline looming, some City Council members say they’re not ready to vote for Mayor Nutter’s budget for Philadelphia, because it’s unclear if...
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City Council Overrides Nutter’s Veto Of Zoning Code Changes
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia City Council on Thursday overrode a veto by Mayor Nutter and in doing so the lawmakers made a sweeping change to the city’s brand new zoning code. The...
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Proceeding With Property Tax Makeover, Philadelphia Mails Out Revised...
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Today is the day the Nutter administration mails out more than 500,000 assessments to property owners — the first wholesale remaking of property values in Philadelphia...
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Future Of Paid Sick Leave Bill Now In Mayor’s Hands
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The ball is now in Mayor Nutter’s court on a paid sick leave bill passed yesterday in Philadelphia City Council (see related story), just before the relocation of his...
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Analysis: Gun Background Check Bill Round 2; Early Moves In 2015 Mayor’s Race
By Larry Kane PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – On two fronts some serious political movement. Sources in the U.S. Senate tell KYW Newsradio that Republican Senator Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania and his Democratic...
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Corbett To Tap Green To Head SRC
By Mike DeNardo and Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Philadelphia School Reform Commission should soon be back to full strength. KYW Newsradio has learned that Governor Corbett is expected to fill...
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