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Pa. DAs: If we don’t pay for pre-K education now, we’ll pay for jail terms later
Several district attorneys in Pennsylvania said Wednesday that they want the state to spend more on early childhood education. Fro ...
13 years ago
New study addresses importance of fulfilled lives for those with mental illnesses
Can people with severe mental illnesses work, succeed, and live full lives? A major study is underway at Temple University to find out wh ...
13 years ago
Old ice cream truck serves as nomadic museum of Philly stories and objects
A couple weeks ago, a new museum opened on Boston Street in the East Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. This weekend, the same muse ...
13 years ago
New board chair at Inglis offers unique insight to help clients
A Philadelphia organization that provides housing and services for people with severe physical disabilities is getting more “inside ...
13 years ago
Clean Ocean Action to host 28th Annual Fall Beach Sweeps this Saturday
Clean Ocean Action, a regional coalition based in Sandy Hook that fights for clean water off the New Jersey and New York coastlines, will ...
13 years ago
Police seek man-and-woman duo in connection with burglary at Germantown bar [video]
Philadelphia Police are seeking information about a Sunday morning burglary at a Wayne Avenue bar. According to investigators, and ...
13 years ago
Newly deployed officers make downtown Wilm. drug bust
Just one day after Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams outlined a new deployment plan for police in the downtown business district, officers ...
13 years ago
Corbett neglecting Pennsylvania’s vulnerable school children
The evidence is in, and the verdict is clear. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is guilty of gross neglect of its most fundamental duty: e ...
13 years ago
Christie signals support for Dreamers’ in-state tuition
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says he is closer to approving a bill that would allow residents brought to the U.S. illegally as chil ...
13 years ago
Phila U. students meet with residents to discuss visions for Germantown’s future
Mt. Airy resident and Philadelphia University landscape-architect professor Kim Douglas knew that asking her students to develop “e ...
13 years ago
New cranes, bigger investment coming to Port of Wilmington [video]
News this week of a five year extension by Fruit Maroc that will bring Maroccan fruit into the Port of Wilmington was certainly welcome n ...
13 years ago
How does the Affordable Care Act affect dental care?
Today’s question: How does the Affordable Care Act affect dental care? Got questions about the Affordable Care Act? ...
13 years ago
ListenSenator: Deal to avoid default and open government
Senate leaders announced last-minute agreement Wednesday to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a partial ...
13 years ago
Shutdown? Debt ceiling? Financial chaos? It’s party time!
Speaking of parties, how will the Grand Old Party rid itself of the crazed Tea Party extremists they’ve enabled? ...
13 years ago
Corbett to release $45 million that Pa. has been withholding; 400 jobs to be restored [update]
Gov. Corbett announced Wednesday that he would release the $45 million that the state had appropriated to the Philadelphia School Distric ...
13 years ago