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Planned Parenthood owes more to Delaware’s women
Planned Parenthood of Delaware has been under fire over the way it has responded to the allegations of former nurses who say conditions i ...
13 years ago
Rick Santorum still wants to be your president
On the original Saturday Night Live, John Belushi played a character called The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave. I ...
13 years ago
An autumnal beginning to the week
Today’s sunrise in Long Beach Island. (Photo: kevinodesigns via Instagram) ...
13 years ago
Press report: Polarizing Shore tourist slogan came from politically active PR firm
Prepare to be shocked, shocked! Last week, we reported on how the “Stronger Than The Storm” post-Sandy tourism c ...
13 years ago
Red-light camera settlement offered in N.J.
Nearly 500,000 motorists in 18 New Jersey towns are receiving notice about a $4.2 million settlement over tickets generated by red light ...
13 years ago
Sculptor commissioned with creating Joe Frazier statue dies unexpectedly
Lawrence Nowlan, the Philadelphia-raised sculptor who was creating the statue to honor late boxing great Joe Frazier, has died. Nowlan, 4 ...
13 years ago
Planned Shoprite unlikely to solve Camden’s ‘food desert’ problem
When Camden Mayor Dana Redd anno ...
13 years ago
‘Shark Week’ kicks off today in Long Branch
It may be a “bad week to be a seal,” but it’ll be a good day to be on the oceanfront in Long Branch, as Discovery bring ...
13 years ago
What the Riley Cooper flap taught my son
I often think of my son when I hear about incidents such as the racist rant by Philadelphia Eagle Riley Cooper, who said of a black secur ...
13 years ago
Green Woods Charter School, a Roxborough ‘landmark’ in the making, on track for Jan. opening
They ran into a little more rock in Roxborough than they anticipated, but construction of the new Green Woods Charter School is proceedin ...
13 years ago
Breaking the silence that surrounds so many funerals
Suicides and deaths from drug overdoses claim the lives of about 80,000 Americans each year. But typically, suicide or drugs are not ment ...
13 years ago
At last, breaking ground on the Pa. Turnpike to I-95 interchange
Gov. Tom Corbett and other officials kicked off construction on something many in the region thought they would never see—a highway int ...
13 years ago
Opera Philadelphia reaches out to new audiences with portable performance
This fall, Opera Philadelphia will yank opera out of the opera house and go into places where opera is usually not seen, or heard. ...
13 years ago
After Daly St. blast, Squilla wants better oversight of contractors
In the wake of a recent gas explosion in South Philadelphia, a city councilman is expressing concerns about unqualified people working on ...
13 years ago
Philly’s Pennsport section laments a sudden dearth of schools
Residents of one up-and-coming Philadelphia neighborhood say something’s missing. Pennsport, which borders the Delaware River a bit ...
13 years ago