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“How’d we get here?” Philadelphia’s transportation history in photos

13 years ago

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Fairmount Park users want improvements in access, security

13 years ago

Proposals for revamping Pa. property tax system fail to gain traction

A statewide approach to property tax changes was defeated in the Pennsylvania House last week, but the Senate is still working on a plan ...

13 years ago

 Radar imagery at 5:55 p.m. Monday. (Image: Weather Underground)

Precipitation ending from west to east across New Jersey; dry Tuesday

A day that began with muggy, tropical conditions will end on a much cooler, comfortable note.  As the once robust cold front ...

13 years ago

N.J. considers using GPS to monitor state car use

A bill introduced in the New Jersey legislature would create a pilot program to track some of the nearly 9,000 state-owned vehicles. ...

13 years ago

Money

Companies increasingly move to disclose campaign spending, report finds

More large corporations are disclosing their political activity to shareholders and the public — voluntarily.   ...

13 years ago

 Rachel Greenberger, 17, reads the part of Janet, from the play
Arts & Entertainment

After legendary high school drama director bows out, former student takes on role in Levittown

After 44 years of ground-breaking theater at the high school level, Lou Volpe retired in May. Volpe created a legendary drama prog ...

13 years ago

Listen
 Philadelphia Schools Superintendent William Hite. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philly schools chief talks about budget crisis at NBC education summit

Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite used the bully pulpit Monday at NBC’s “Education Nation” summit to bring natio ...

13 years ago

Aramark will send employees to private health insurance exchanges

Aramark is asking its workers to buy health insurance in a new way. The Philadelphia food service giant joins a growing list of large com ...

13 years ago

 A look inside the building that will soon house High Point Cafe's wholesale bakery/roastery. (Bas Slabbers)

Can coffee and pastries bring new scent of success to struggling sliver of Germantown Ave.?

Coffee and pastries are becoming an economic engine in Mt. Airy. The opening early next year of a High Point Café wholesale baker ...

13 years ago

 (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Some furloughed Delaware employees are back to work

Nearly a thousand furloughed military personnel are back to work in Delaware today. The Dover Air Force Base welcomed back 500 civ ...

13 years ago

High-ranking lesbian official in Pa. denounces Corbett comment on same-sex marriage

Pennsylvania’s top-ranking openly gay official denounced Gov. Tom Corbett’s recent remarks on same-sex marriage. Terry ...

13 years ago

 New Jersey businessman and co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, George Norcross, left, meets with attorney Michael Chertoff outside Judge Patricia McInerney's courtroom during a recess, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, at City Hall in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Philadelphia Inquirer editor Bill Marimow ousted

Philadelphia Inquirer editor Bill Marimow was suddenly ousted on Monday morning, but sources at the paper say the company owners ...

13 years ago

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N.J. voters to decide on use of veterans groups gambling proceeds

A measure to boost the minimum wage in New Jersey will not be the only question facing voters in the Nov. 5 general election. Anot ...

13 years ago

 Francisco Javier Hernandez Carbajal, or Brujo created Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac to bring indigenous culture and history to the Pa. community. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Scenes from West Philly’s Indigenous Peoples Day celebration [photos]

Andrew Lyn, 6, bounded around a fire, dressed in orange tiger stripes with white, green and blue fringe that flew in every direction in W ...

13 years ago

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