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N.J.’s Carli Lloyd makes U.S. soccer team for her 4th Olympics
Carli Lloyd is among the 18 players named to the Olympic team by coach Vlatko Andonovski.
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N.J. lawmakers advance historic spending increases with $46.4B budget
Legislators, with all seats up for grabs in November, tacked on hundreds of millions of dollars in additional spending to the major budget increase already requested.
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SEPTA’s survival demands investments that will grow ridership
The SEPTA board will vote on the agency’s next budget Thursday. Transit advocate Daniel Trubman reflects on how the system can rebound after the pandemic.
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After first federal Juneteenth holiday, reformers say harder racial justice work remains
Advocates say a new federal holiday is nice, but it’s no substitute for policy change. On the federal level, most of the big proposals have stalled.
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Listen 3:47Bleak plaza across from Philly’s City Hall moves toward $8.7M makeover
Downtown bar owner Teddy Sourias has already started work on the beer garden to open on the underused pedestrian mall between Penn Center’s office towers.
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Brother who admitted to setting Old City fire in 2018 sentenced to prison
One of two Delaware County brothers convicted of setting fire to their Old City business back in 2018 will spend nearly a decade behind bars.
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Pa. Juvenile Justice Task Force finds most young people detained for low-level infractions
A long-awaited report on Pa.’s juvenile justice system found wide racial disparities and minimal use of diversion to keep young people out of the system in the first place.
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Philly’s very own World Cup — the International Unity Cup — is back
Mayor Kenney helped launch the Unity Cup in 2016, as a way of uniting diverse communities across the city around their shared love of soccer.
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‘It’s gonna be close,’ Carney says of Delaware hitting 70% vaccination mark by deadline
Delaware is still about 7,000 arms short of reaching the governor’s benchmark by the Fourth of July.
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Largest pipe organ in the world celebrates itself on its 110th birthday
The largest pipe organ in the world is 100% operational, with legions of fans.
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Poll shows Pennsylvanians support climate action amid pandemic
Forty-two percent of the 444 registered voters surveyed said that Pennsylvania should “definitely” do more to combat climate change and its impacts.
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N.J. chemical recycling bill sets stage for industry’s battle with environmentalists
The bill would be among the most progressive recycled content rules in the country, and would complement the single-use plastic and paper bag ban Murphy signed into law.
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How one Pennsylvania lawmaker billed taxpayers $1.8 million in expenses
Mileage, meals, lodging, travel, and a special perk called per diems are part of the hidden costs charged to taxpayers to support Pennsylvania’s legislature.
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SEPTA to hold career fair targeting women for skilled trades jobs
SEPTA is actively recruiting women to work as bus mechanics, rail vehicle mechanics, building electricians, welders, and more.
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