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What is your neighborhood’s experience with income inequality?
“NewsWorks Tonight” host Dave Heller recently spoke with one of the authors of a study that identifies Philadelphia as t
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12 years ago
But SEPTA, what about the cashiers?
Following a report about SEPTA’s plans to modernize fare collection, a NewsWorks reader wrote in to ask us: “What about
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12 years ago
Your chance for answers about the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal
Former American spy Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Joe Wilson, a former diplomat to Iraq, will revisit the CIA leak controver
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12 years ago
Essential ingredient of healthy school lunches? Pizza and French fries
By keeping pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, Congress may save business for frozen-f
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12 years ago
Rumored South Jersey university merger could drive away scholars and dollars
The rumored consolidation of Rowan University, Cooper University Hospital, The College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Rutgers-Camden cam
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12 years ago
The case for all insurance policies to cover maternity services
Pennsylvania does not require individual or small group insurance policies to cover maternity care. W
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12 years ago
Sum up your cold-weather defiance in six words
As temperatures continue to drop, and we descend into winter weather and winter habits, there are tho
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12 years ago
Great American Smokeout a time to boost efforts to end smoking
As a lung cancer specialist at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Hamilton, I have seen suffering and death without regard to age, sex, e
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12 years ago
Top 10 pirates in popular culture
The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington was started 100 years ago with the paintings and illustrations of Howard Pyle, who invented the ico
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12 years ago
What regional foods are most worth remembering?
Reading Terminal Market hosted the Festival of Forgotten Foods last weekend.
The idea was to introduce to our spoiled modern palet
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12 years ago
Representing citizen opposition to Northwest Phila. rehab sites
After NewsWorks ran a story about a protest at Kemble Park in Northwest Philadelphia against the conversion of an apartment building 
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12 years ago
Santa’s coming soon, but how soon is ‘too soon’?
Most of us would agree that jingle bell time is a swell time, but do we need a little Christmas right this very minute? You tell us: When
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12 years ago
Real question of liquor store privatization: how to prop up revenue
Following a report in October that the state of Pennsylvania could make up to $1.6 billion from the sale of wholesale and retail lic
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12 years ago
Where should Occupy Philly protesters locate?
The Occupy Philadelphia encampment is scheduled to become a construction zone next week. Protesters have voted in their general assembly
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12 years ago
Penn State bad to worse: Paterno firing inspires student riot
Denying Joe Paterno the ability to control his exit from the Penn State football program, the university’s trustees fired him Wedne
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12 years ago
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