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Time to conduct change at rail yard

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November 14: Transportation funding at stake | Please Touch Museum layoffs | New 9th & Girard shopping center | Water Commissioner Howard Neukrug | Kimmel Center exhibit

13 years ago

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Urban Planning

Upper Merion mural embodies spirit of township’s tricentennial logo: Preserving the past, shaping the future

13 years ago

10 more miles advances Circuit Coalition goal of 750 miles of trails

Ten miles of new bike and pedestrian trails will soon help connect the Delaware Valley. The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Comm ...

13 years ago

In Pa., N.J. and Delaware, about 3,500 have signed up for Obamacare online

The numbers are in. The federal government has released state-by-state tallies of the people who’ve shopped for — and selected ...

13 years ago

 iPic Theaters plans to restore the Boyd Theatre located at 1908 Chestnut Street to its former glory. (Nathaniel Hamilton/For Newsworks)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s palatial Boyd Theatre faces sequel as eight small cinemas

The Florida-based company iPic Theaters has plans for the dilapidated Boyd Theatre on Chestnut Street in Center City Philadelphia. ...

13 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Judge considers ordering Inquirer to reinstate Marimow as editor

Could fired Inquirer editor Bill Marimow be back in his office by Friday? A Philadelphia judge is taking the complaint that Marimo ...

13 years ago

 It's the peak of the deer mating season in the Garden State and drivers should be on the lookout (Jim Fitzgerald/AP Photo, file)

Deer-mating season means danger for deer, motorists in N.J.

Motorists strike and kill thousands of deer each year in New Jersey. And this is the time of year for drivers to be on the lookout. < ...

13 years ago

 (Photo courtesy of Reach Academy)

Reach Academy leaders fight to keep charter school open

Despite the Delaware Dept. of Education’s decision to not renew the charter of Reach Academy for Girls, school leaders are looking at e ...

13 years ago

 Mother treating daughter's hair against lice image courtesy of Shutterstock.com
Philly Parenting

3 lesser-known tips on fighting lice

The most feared bug in schools is also one of the tiniest. So scary that even its eggs wreak havoc both in the classroom and at home. It& ...

13 years ago

N.J. may get tougher on texting behind the wheel

A New Jersey lawmaker wants to make it illegal for drivers to text on their phones — even when they’re stopped at a red light ...

13 years ago

Brush fire reported along Burnt Tavern Road in Brick

Firefighters are on the scene of a brush fire along Burnt Tavern Road in Brick. Crews from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service arri ...

13 years ago

 (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Delaware’s top health official comments on Obamacare enrollment

The first round of Obamacare enrollment numbers are out, and they’re not good. Federal health officials announced today 106, ...

13 years ago

Nutter joins mayors in urging Pa., Ga. and Wis. governors to expand Medicaid

Three big-city mayors, including Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, joined in on a conference call to push for their states to expand ...

13 years ago

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From left to right: Emily Scott, Reed Hennessey, and Maddy Buffardi of the Neshaminy student newspaper, support the ban on printing the word

Neshaminy school district mulls blocking student paper ban on ‘Redskins’ name

The Neshaminy School District is considering whether its high-school’s student newspaper can refuse to print the word “Redski ...

13 years ago

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