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Delaware beaches celebrate Easter at sunrise [photos]

It wasn’t that long ago that snow blowers and shovels were needed to make a path along the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk to clear away s ...

12 years ago

National Interest

Yo, Democrats: Stop running from Obamacare

  Nobody knows who first said “the best defense is a good offense” – perhaps Sun Tzu, or Machiavelli, or Vi ...

12 years ago

 Lt. Gov. Denn takes the oath of office in January 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

Delaware Lt. Gov. Denn announces campaign for AG

Matt Denn announced his plans to run for the Democratic nomination for Delaware attorney general in this November’s election via Tw ...

12 years ago

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 A look inside Greenology. (Courtesy of Greenology)

3 new stores open along Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill

Three new stores have opened or soon will along Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill —Villevillakula, Greenology, and Green Street Consig ...

12 years ago

 First lady Michelle Obama  on Thursday joined juniors and seniors from Chicago public high schools on the first day of their four-day visit to Howard University, as part of a program to immerse talented high school students in a college campus environment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Michelle Obama and the truth about school segregation

It’s odd that anyone from Topeka, Kan. would balk at having Michelle Obama speak at a high-school graduation. It was Topeka, after ...

12 years ago

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 Lisa Meritz (left) is shown with mother Sally and daughter Rebecca. (Image courtesy of Lisa Meritz)

From worrier to warrior in 3 generations of women

When it came to worrying, my mother was an Olympian — with good reason: Sally escaped the Cossacks to come to America. But the one thin ...

12 years ago

 The area of the early Sunday morning crash that killed Tiffany Soto, 26, of Howell. (Image: Google Street View)
Down the Shore

26-year-old Howell woman killed in early Easter morning crash in Belmar

A woman was killed and her boyfriend was injured when their car and another vehicle collided on the Shark River bridge in Belmar. ...

12 years ago

Politics & Policy

Breaking up with the School Reform Commission will be hard to do

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first grant their wishes. Two out of three Philadelphians want to see an end to the School ...

12 years ago

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PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

April 21: One Riverside update | BRT’s costly plod | Mt Sinai townhouses approved | Vietnam War Memorial rehab | Venture Acceleration Center

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

April 21-25: Environmental Thinking from Roots to Revolution | Urban sustainability | Land Bank Teach-In | The Woodlands tour | On greenwashing | Gentrification debate

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City Science: Philadelphia Science Festival picks

12 years ago

 Fire engulfs three homes near the beachfront, Friday, April 18, 2014, in Sea Isle City, N.J.  (AP Photo/Joanne Dollarton)

Officials seek cause of massive Sea Isle City fire

Authorities are still trying to determine what caused a massive fire that destroyed three beachfront condominium buildings in a Jersey Sh ...

12 years ago

 Rubin

New Jersey native Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter dies at 76

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice, died ...

12 years ago

Sophie Liu, 2, of Lower Merion, dumps her eggs during the Easter egg hunt at Stenton House Saturday afternoon.

Easter Egg Hunt gets children searching the historic Stenton grounds [gallery]

Among many Easter-related events in Northwest Philadelphia this weekend, the historic Stenton mansion s ...

12 years ago

 A scene from MLK High's historic season. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks, file)

Top 5 stories to watch for in NW Philly

Here’s a look at what’s to come: 1. Even before the school year started, members of the Martin Luther King High School ...

12 years ago

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