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‘It’s a math problem’: Philly educators scramble amid omicron wave
For the first time this school year, Philadelphia faces the prospect of a widespread shift back to virtual learning. How many schools and for how long? No one quite knows.
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Listen 4:37Lower taxes, school choice, local control: GOP field for Pa. governor makes its pitch
The event delved into such topics as school choice, energy production, election conspiracies, and how to make homemade backyard biodiesel.
4 years ago
Don’t discuss the Jan. 6 insurrection with students, a Bucks school district tells teachers
A Bucks County school district has instructed teachers not to “wade into” discussions with students about the insurrection “due to the current polarization.”
4 years ago
U.S. urges COVID boosters starting at age 12 to fight omicron
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has agreed, recommending that younger teens — and those 16 and 17 — should get a Pfizer booster five months after their last sho
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The grant funds will help pay for 12 education, design, and engineering efforts to protect and restore the 3-county Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone.
4 years ago
Camden County opens new drive-in COVID test site amid demand
Amid a surge in cases and hospitalizations, Camden County opens a new site to help address demand for COVID testing.
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The 27th annual Day of Service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. will focus on issues of health justice, voting rights, gun violence, early literacy, and living wage jobs.
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Delaware AG Jennings says elections ‘still under threat’ ahead of insurrection anniversary
A group of Democratic attorneys general call on their Republican counterparts to follow the rule of law when it comes to ensuring fair elections.
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Outlaw vows to reduce homicides in Philly as shootings continue to surge in 2022
Philly police say they can reduce crime by reassigning officers to street duty and creating a new unit designed to curb non-fatal shootings.
4 years ago
Delaware ACLU in federal court to fight ‘unprovoked violence’ against prisoners
The first of several lawsuits coming from the civil rights organization accuses a correctional officer of leading the beatings of two men last year, a month apart.
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At a Wednesday briefing, Montgomery County Commissioners Chair Valerie Arkoosh said she’s ‘cautiously optimistic’ of a peak in two weeks.
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COVID cases ‘skyrocketing’ in Philadelphia, says health commissioner
COVID-19 cases are rapidly rising and Philadelphia’s health commissioner is warning people to be boosted and either double mask or wear an n-95.
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Governor pardons Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling
Keith Plessy, whose great-great-grandfather was Plessy’s cousin, called the event “truly a blessed day for our ancestors … and for children not yet born.”
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‘I feel broken’: 8 children among 12 people killed in Fairmount rowhouse fire
City property records indicate the Philadelphia Housing Authority owns the single-family home, which had been converted into two apartments.
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‘We were trapped’: Trauma of Jan. 6 lingers for lawmakers
In interviews with The Associated Press a year later, many of the lawmakers recall that they thought they were going to die.
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