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Urban Planning

September 2: Parking Authority looking at mobile payments | Chicago company opening 2 Philly coworking spaces | Mantua’s large artist cluster | New Kid Hazo

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Race is on in Pennsylvania 6th Congressional

This fall voters in Philadelphia’s western suburbs will choose a new congressman to replace Republican Jim Gerlach, who’s lea ...

12 years ago

Driver tails Christie motorcade following incident

A motorist who thought a member of Gov. Chris Christie’s motorcade had cut him off followed the vehicle into a Jersey Shore town, b ...

12 years ago

MLK Cougars look ahead after tough season-opener loss

The Martin Luther King High School Cougars began their first season in AAAA division on Friday with a 45-19 loss to the Coatesville Red R ...

12 years ago

Down the Shore

Police investigating stabbing, robbery at Brick gas station early Monday afternoon

Police are investigating a stabbing and robbery at a gas station in Brick early Monday afternoon. The incident occurred at the Gul ...

12 years ago

 (Photo: William F. Yurasko via Flickr)
Down the Shore

Annual Labor Day exodus from the Jersey Shore begins

The annual Labor Day exodus from the Jersey Shore is in full force early Monday afternoon. At 1:30 p.m, the New Jersey Department ...

12 years ago

Will traffic deaths rise as states legalize pot?

Safety advocates worry that more drivers high on pot will lead to a big increase in traffic deaths as states liberalize their marijuana l ...

12 years ago

Counselors provided following deaths of 3 Pa. teens

Officials at a suburban Philadelphia school district say counselors will be at the school all day on Labor Day to provide support and gui ...

12 years ago

Authorities: 9 displaced by N.J. motel fire

Nine people have been displaced after a fast-moving fire damaged a southern New Jersey motel. It’s not clear what sparked th ...

12 years ago

 Revel in Atlantic City, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo, file)
Keystone Crossroads

Atlantic City shutters third casino this year as Revel closes its doors

The economic meltdown continues for Atlantic City. Revel Casino is shutting down its hotel and gambling operations, leaving more than 3,0 ...

12 years ago

Labor day no holiday from politicking in South Philly

While some were lighting backyard barbeques or scouring the malls for bargains, others used the Labor Day holiday for its original purpos ...

12 years ago

 The Remote Glow Discharge Experiment offers students the ability to experiment with plasma through a  live webcam feed of a glass tube filled with air, pictured here (Electronic image via Remote Glow Discharge Experiment)

Plasma you can control, real-time, from your computer

The Princeton Plasma Physics Lab allows students to experiment on plasma remotely, in real time, right from their computers, with the Rem ...

12 years ago

 Dec. 9, 2011 file photo of a Monarch butterfly. (Marco Ugarte/AP Photo, file)

Annual count starts for declining monarch populations

Cape May’s annual Monarch Monitoring Project kicks off this week amid calls for the federal government to protect the iconic black- ...

12 years ago

Teen soccer player on life support following N.J. crash

Authorities say a teenage soccer player who was seriously injured in a multivehicle crash in southern New Jersey remains on life support. ...

12 years ago

 After 2 and-a-half years of construction Dilworth Plaza is reopening this week (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Dilworth Park to reopen this week after multi-year closure

After a three-year wait and a $5 million cost overrun, the $55 million makeover of Dilworth Plaza is finally finished. The plaza west of ...

12 years ago

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