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Review: Two times around with ‘I Am My Own Wife’

Among several neat things about Charlie DelMarcelle’s current run at Theatre Horizon, as the singularly eccentric German transvesti ...

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Philly schools seek public input on how to navigate dire straits

Where do we go from here? That’s the question Philadelphia schools Superintendent William Hite put before the packed crowd g ...

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Montgomery County prison guards to consider unionizing

Guards at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility are thinking about unionizing. Chris O’Donnell, an organizer at Teamst ...

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Iraqi refugees find support from fellows and neighbors in Northeast Philadelphia

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Affordable Care Act and you [Financial Perspectives]

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November 19: PA House votes down transportation funding bill | Demo and construction safety updates | Curbing speeding on Kelly Drive | Gettysburg Address at 150

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New mobile mural rolls on the Market Frankford Line

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 A detail of a poster discouraging the spread of meningitis is shown. (Image courtesy of Charles Fortin, Princeton University)

Princeton University to offer students meningitis vaccine

Princeton University is preparing to offer its students a meningitis vaccine — not approved in the United States, but already cleared f ...

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N.J. Senate advances in-state tuition rate for immigrants

The New Jersey Senate has approved charging the in-state college tuition rate to students brought to the United States illegally as child ...

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 The New Jersey Senate votes to confirm Faustino Fernandez-Vina as the newest member of the state Supreme Court. (Phil Gregory/for NewsWorks)

Camden County judge confirmed to N.J. high court

The newest member of New Jersey’s Supreme Court is a Cuban-American judge from Camden County. The state Senate confirmed Fau ...

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Remembering November 22, 1963: the Kennedy assassination

I’m writing down my recollection of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, not because my experience was in any way specia ...

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 Former Republican city councilman Frank Rizzo Jr. arrives at the Democratic Headquarters in Philadelphia to change his party affiliation. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Frank Rizzo Jr. for mayor?

Just days after businessman Tom Knox took himself out of Philadelphia’s 2015 mayor’s race, former Republican City Councilman ...

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