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Philadelphia Media Network thought it had a deal after winning the papers in April, but the Teamsters have balked at the last minute. That means the Philly Inquirer and Daily News will be auctioned again, and Philadelphia Media plans to try again.

Carl Greene ran the Philadelphia Housing Authority for years with little oversight, until recent revelations about a series of scandals from sexual harassment to financial mismanagement landed him in hot water. But Greene's misdeeds may be just a symptom of the problematic culture of U.S. housing authorities.

Americans can now buy a bottle of wine out of a vending machine as if it were a Coke or a bag of Cheetos. No surprise how that's playing in France, the self-styled wine capital of the world and a place not known for its tolerance of bourgeois enterprise. Well, the French are not only turning their...

After technology and the worst recession in decades created enormous upheaval for the newspaper industry, the parent company of Philadelphia's leading papers is on the auction block today. Will billionaire Ron Perelman emerge as the hometown hero who saves the day?

In June 2006, Brian P. Tierney (right, in suit) came to the beautiful white art deco building that houses the troubled Philadelphia Inquirer and vowed to restore it to its Pulitzer-winning glory. Now the entrepreneur is watching his fledgling media empire slip from his grasp. A hearing set for...

The parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and the related Philly.com website could emerge from bankruptcy debt-free, if a proposal submitted by the ownership group that bought the paper in 2006 is accepted by lenders in court. Bruce Toll, of homebuilder Toll...

The liberal blogosphere has been in a tizzy over the Philadelphia Inquirer's hiring of John Yoo, the author of the Bush administration's so-called "torture memo," to write a column. The hiring inspired MSNBC's Keith Olberman to award the paper's executive editor William K. Marimow and editorial...

It's gotten to the point where publishers can't make money even from sensational stories. Last year, people snapped up copies of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News in droves to commemorate the Philadelphia Phillies winning the World Series. Readers also flocked to the papers' website for...