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Philly Parenting

Tuesday for Trayvon: Listening to children

I feel passionately about the death of Trayvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman. I feel those events in my bones, yet I find myse ...

13 years ago

Pa. House approves $45 million more for Philly’s schools

The Pennsylvania House passed a bill Monday that directs $45 million in additional state aid to Philadelphia’s cash-starved schools ...

13 years ago

Pa. panel plans to look into issues of poverty

A GOP state lawmaker says the next big focus of one House panel will be how poverty affects people across Pennsylvania and what can be do ...

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Tips for traveling abroad [Financial Perspectives]

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Beat the heat wave: Pools, spraygrounds and splash pads

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

July 16: Creek swimming risks | Nutter administration flip-flops on collapse hearings | alleged cover-up of coke bust involving Council President Clarke’s daughter | Feds investigating Councilwoman Brown | FBI divers in Schuylkill

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Look Up! A survivor of Francisville’s rich history

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Central Northeast: Lots of immigrants, transportation needs

13 years ago

Memo to Corbett administration on disenfranchising voters may figure in Pa. voter ID trial

Testimony is under way in the court case over Pennsylvania’s voter ID law that requires voters to show certain photo identification ...

13 years ago

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Delaware congressman discusses higher education affordability

Is there a way to make college more affordable? Delaware Congressman John Carney hosted a roundtable discussion with education specialist ...

13 years ago

 Archbishop Charles Chaput talks with St. Gabriel Elementary School students (from left) Amirah Drew, Caitlin Dwyer, and Joseph McCann after announcing that their school and 13 others will be independently run. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Independent board takes on finances for 14 Philadelphia Catholic schools

An independent board of local business leaders is taking over finances for 14 Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelp ...

13 years ago

 A volunteer cleans an artifact taken from Elfreth's Alley, at Temple University's anthropology lab in Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
Arts & Entertainment

Elfreth’s Alley backstory yields clues to life of Philly immigrants

Here are some of the 6,000 objects Deirdre Kelleher has dug up in the lot behind the Elfreth’s Alley Museum: Clay marbles. Buttons. ...

13 years ago

 Students are sweltering  at the un-air-conditioned Freedom School program at Huey Elementary in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood. (Photo courtesy of Huey Elementary)

Take it easy, find a cool spot to get through heat wave

Many communities across the region issued this summer’s first hot weather heat warnings Monday. John Corcoran, deputy direct ...

13 years ago

 At the moment the verdict is read, George Zimmerman, right, looks down as his defense co-counsel, Don West, second from left, and Lorna Truett, look at Zimmerman's lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara, left, as the verdict is announced in Seminole Circuit Court in Sanford, Fla. on Saturday. Jurors found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. (AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)
Politics & Policy

Like Florida, Pa. has ‘stand your ground’ law

As all eyes were on the case of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, something else came to the nation’s attention: “ ...

13 years ago

NJ Sandy fund to receive donation from United Arab Emirates

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13 years ago

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