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National jobs effort directs $1 million to Philadelphia
The National Urban League is promoting a program to invest in jobs across the country. The Jobs Rebuild America program is a 50-ci ...
12 years ago
ListenDealer gets 3 years for selling Sandy-flooded cars
A used car dealer in New Jersey has been sentenced to three years in prison for selling vehicles damaged in Superstorm Sandy to unsuspect ...
12 years ago
Changes in retail rebates sought in NJ
New Jersey lawmakers are worried that consumers are accidentally tossing out the rebate checks they get in the mail. ...
12 years ago
Rapper Beanie Sigel shot outside Pleasantville, NJ home
Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel has been shot after an altercation outside a Jersey Shore home. ...
12 years ago
Small businesses helping to buoy consumer confidence
Unemployment is down. Consumer confidence is up. Seems like a great time to go shopping for rose-colored glasses. We’ve got the lat ...
12 years ago
ListenReview: The winter return of ‘This Is the Week That Is’
Why are “The Supremes” — Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — boogeying like that? And wh ...
12 years ago
France agrees to compensate Holocaust deportees
Thousands of Holocaust survivors and family members in the United States and elsewhere will be entitled to compensation from a $60 millio ...
12 years ago
In case you missed it: this week’s good reads about Pennsylvania urban issues
Here’s a list of recommended reading for your weekend: For many urban dwellers across the country, Ferguson and the ...
12 years ago
District will hear Germantown Community Charter School Coalition’s pitch on Monday
It’s all come down to a pair of hearings. On Monday, members of the Germantown Community Charter School Coalition will head ...
12 years ago
Christie to meet with Canadian Prime Minister
Gov. Chris Christie will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the second and final day of his trade mission to the cou ...
12 years ago
Winter ‘Brunch Sessions’ hit Mt. Airy this weekend
The third set of Mt. Airy Brunch Sessions will take place this weekend, Dec. 5 to 7. This round is the series’ first holiday editio ...
12 years ago
Robot could make bridge inspections quicker and easier
A new robot called the RABIT™ Bridge Deck Assessment Tool could make it easier for Pennsylvania to complete required bridge inspections ...
12 years ago
Northwest Neighbors meeting focuses on Germantown school push, crime and clean blocks
The Northwest Neighbors of Germantown group’s monthly meeting featured discussions of crime, efforts to bring a charter high school ...
12 years ago
Sandusky’s son speaks out on abusive childhood
Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son Matt is speaking about his two abusive fathers at a Philadelphia conference on child abuse interventio ...
12 years ago
Eric Garner claim aside, why Rand Paul’s complaint about cigarette taxes is especially stupid
I’m staying with the Eric Garner story – although this post is really about Rand Paul, and why he is such a policy lightweigh ...
12 years ago
