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 A calm morning on the Barnegat Bay. (Photo: The Friends of Island Beach State Park Osprey Cam)

Still decent weather today, but more clouds and humidity later

It’s a pleasant start to the day throughout the Garden State — both on land and in the water, as depicted in this photo from ...

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 (Photo: Lindsay Hart)

A “jackpot” sunrise in Atlantic City today

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National Interest

Happy anniversary, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky

Nobody seems to have noticed that last night marked the 20th anniversary of a rare act of conscience on Capitol Hill. A congresswoman fro ...

13 years ago

 Amy Kunkle in Food for All last year. (Alan Tu/WHYY, file)

Mt. Airy’s Food for All closes its doors for good

After a Groupon deal gone ba ...

13 years ago

 Children participate in Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective's first dance camp in New Orleans in 2007. This year marks the seventh time the group has visited New Orleans. (Image courtesy of Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective)
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Dancing to the tune of disaster relief

This year marked Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective’s seventh summer in New Orleans running dance camps for children affected by nat ...

13 years ago

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Urban Planning

National Night Out set for August 6

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PlanPhilly
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A financial approach to diminished capacity [Financial Perspectives]

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Elderly Castor Gardens man to be tried for wife’s murder

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Low-down on dashed high-rise hopes

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August 6: No new money for schools | Philly as DNC host? | 311 system upgrades | Cedar Park neighbor survey | too many eagles

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Cemetery Afterlives: Green spaces often replaced burial grounds

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Companies want in on Pennsylvania’s health exchange

Uninsured and self-insured residents in Pennsylvania may have several plans to choose from in a new online marketplace, or health exchang ...

13 years ago

Education official offers primer on Pa.’s new ‘Common Core’ standards

Corbett administration officials are waging a cleanup campaign to try to dispel some of what they call false claims about new Common Core ...

13 years ago

 The SG360 model will be mandated in Princeton schools for women's lacrosse and field hockey. The soccer headgear is less helmet-like. (Photo courtesy of HRP Products, Inc.)

Princeton schools mandating headgear for soccer, lacrosse, field hockey

Updated August 7, 2013:  Take a hard blow to the head diving for that soccer ball? Well, gone are the days o ...

13 years ago

Prevailing wage could be shaved as part of Pa. plan for road, bridge projects

One thorny issue in the debate over road and bridge funding is whether to include reforms to prevailing wage laws, which set higher wages ...

13 years ago

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