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 Harrisburg Hope is sponsoring a mayoral summit Monday at Harrisburg Community College. The group has organized dozens of public forums in the city.
Keystone Crossroads

City mayors to convene in Harrisburg

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12 years ago

 Philadelphia Councilman Dennis O'Brien displays a brick from a vacant building where two city firefighters were killed in 2012. He's proposing a task force to inspect empty facilities and note floor plans and other details that could prove important in time of emergency. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Inventory of empty Philly buildings proposed to cut risks to firefighters

Philadelphia is moving to inventory and inspect unoccupied buildings.  With a brick pulled from the rubble left by a 2012 war ...

12 years ago

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Lot cleanup bill passes muster with Philly Council committee

To help those getting out of prison, a Philadelphia City Council Committee is moving some money out of the prison budget.  A ...

12 years ago

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 New research from the Wistar Institute casts doubt on the effectiveness of using ferrets as the primary model in developing flu vaccines. (<a href=Photo via ShutterStock) " title="ferret" width="1" height="1"/>

Ferrets not always best for flu research, Wistar Institute finds

New findings from a team at Philadelphia’s Wistar Institute argue for a change ...

12 years ago

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David B. Thornburgh, president and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, says the ultimate goal of the project is to reinvigorate how Pennsylvanians think about representative democracy. (Image courtesy of University City Science Center)

Committee of Seventy taps Thornburgh as new CEO

Longtme civic leader David B. Thornburgh has been named the new president and CEO of the Committee of Seventy. The position has been open ...

12 years ago

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 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf speaks to NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller at WHYY studios in Philadelphia, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
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Tom Wolf on education, uncut: Vote trading, increasing investment, and disbanding the SRC

Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf came to WHYY studios Friday to answer an array of questions from a mix of beat reporters du ...

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 Meneko Spigner McBeth of Deptford, New Jersey, celebrates as her Lay's Kettle Cooked Wasabi Ginger potato chip flavor submission was named the $1 million grand-prize winner of a contest sponsored by the snack maker. (Diane Bondareff/Invision for Frito-Lay/AP Images)

Chips are up for South Jersey nurse who wins $1 million for spicy snack

Potato chip lovers across the country will soon be able to snack on a spicy new flavor, thanks to a national contest and a South Jersey n ...

12 years ago

 Chastity Lynch (photo courtesy of New Castle County Police)

Delaware woman arrested for Ebola scare

Police say a New Castle woman’s false report initiated an emergency Ebola screening after she called 911 four separate times on Tue ...

12 years ago

The youngest victim of gun violance at the memorial is Ryan Brown who was killed at the age of 2. (Natavan Werbock/for NewsWorks)

‘Memorial to the Lost’ in Northwest Philly remembers Philadelphians killed by guns

Spread out on the front lawn of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Mt. Airy is a memorial to those killed by guns in Philadelphia in ...

12 years ago

 Workers with heavy equipment drive long steel sheets into the dunes to make a protective barrier near the ocean Tues, Oct. 21, 2014, in Mantoloking, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Mantoloking, Brick sea wall 75 percent finished

A steel sea wall designed to protect two of the Jersey shore communities hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy is nearing completion. Ne ...

12 years ago

 The GSSD will meet with representatives of the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities on Oct. 30 to discuss the renovation of the bus stop at W. Chelten Ave. and Greene St. (Daniel Pasquarello/for NewsWorks)

GSSD discusses unpaid-membership liens, refurbishing bus stop at Chelten and Greene

Though it didn’t have the quorum necessary to vote on agenda items, the Germantown Special Services District’s board of direc ...

12 years ago

Transit agency weighs court bout vs. mobster’s kin

New Jersey Transit is considering whether to continue to fight a mobster’s family over a land deal. The transit agency is ch ...

12 years ago

New Jersey Turnpike widening nearly finished

Work on a major New Jersey Turnpike widening project is set to end ahead of schedule and more than $200 million under budget. Nort ...

12 years ago

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Ben Franklin Bridge commutes easier for six weeks

Commuters who travel over the Ben Franklin Bridge by train or car can get used to easier trips for now. Both means of transport ha ...

12 years ago

Township moves to ban drilling near homes in Pa.

A western Pennsylvania township has created an advisory board on gas drilling and authorized restrictions on such development on resident ...

12 years ago

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