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Mercer County Community College creates an exhibit that features a praying mantis with saw hands. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Controlled chaos, behind the scenes setting up Philadelphia Flower Show

Despite the recent spate of frigid weather, it’s almost spring. And that means the Philadelphia Flower Show is about to fill the Pe ...

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 Data Garden co-founder Joe Patitucci using one of his record label's creations. (Charlie Kaier/WHYY)
Lifestyle

Setting human biorhythms to an electronic beat: Data Garden

Generating music through your own electrical currents … and some apples.  Pulse audio engineer Charlie Kaier is holding ...

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CSX: improper maintenance work caused derailment

CSX Corp. says it has determined what caused a train carrying crude oil to derail on a bridge over a river in Philadelphia. ...

13 years ago

 USS Somerset makes its way to Penn's Landing along the Delaware River, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in Philadelphia. The amphibious transport dock scheduled to be commissioned March 1, is the last of three vessels honoring 9/11 victims and first responders. It joins the USS New York and the USS Arlington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

New Navy ship USS Somerset bears reminders of Flight 93, Sept. 11 crash in Pa.

Reminders of Flight 93 are everywhere on the USS Somerset, the Navy’s newest ship. From a quilt bearing the names of the 40 ...

13 years ago

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Pa. making ‘slow progress’ processing Medicaid applications sent through HealthCare.gov

A bit of progress is being made in Pennsylvania, when it comes to dealing with a backlog of Medicaid applications submitted through the f ...

13 years ago

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PlanPhilly
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February 28: SEPTA delays new payment system | Penn shares new master plan | Boyd Theater hardship update | Three $30,000 environmental grants | LGBT, low-income senior housing unveiled | Mapping crime, walks to school

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PlanPhilly
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February 28 – March 2: Flower Show opens | Parks Alliance center city tour | Bartram’s seed workshop | Greensgrow spring opening | Free Barnes Foundation admission

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Urban Planning

Design unveiled for Spring Garden Connector

13 years ago

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Politics & Policy

March sheriff sale properties [map]

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File photo: Pennsylvania state capitol building on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)

As Harrisburg exits receivership, a bid to leave Act 47, too

After more than two years under the watchful eye of state officials seeking to deliver it from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, P ...

13 years ago

Obtaining lethal injection drugs no problem for Pa. DOC

While other states face a shortage of lethal injection drugs used in executions, Pennsylvania’s supply isn’t a problem. < ...

13 years ago

‘Healthy PA’ application advances

The head of Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare is optimistic the federal government will approve the state’s recentl ...

13 years ago

 Hopatcong, N.J. resident Phil Joana says a strain of medical marijuana could have saved his daughter's life (Phil Gregory/WHYY)

Parents plead for expanding N.J. medical marijuana program

The parents of some sick children joined Democratic lawmakers at New Jersey’s Statehouse in pushing for changes to the Garden State ...

13 years ago

‘Bridgegate’ documents reveal ‘cavalier’ misuse of power, investigator says

While there are no bombshells in newly released portions of documents subpoenaed in the George Washington Bridge scandal, one of the lawm ...

13 years ago

 Nonhlanhla Kheswa and the suit, in 'The Suit' at Prince Music Theater
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘The Suit,’ morality in a time of oppression

Bittersweet and solidly theatrical, British director Peter Brook’s “The Suit” is the first major stagework at the newly ...

13 years ago

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