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Poll finds Pa. voters would trade tax hikes for education
Most Pennsylvania voters wouldn’t mind a hike in their income taxes if it would help to fund public schools, according to a ...
13 years ago
Area schools respond to Sandy Hook with security measures for the fall
In response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut more than six months ago, some schools in the area ...
13 years ago
It’s time for the old guard to step aside
Our young people are not only our future; they are our “now.” They are the difference between a new prison and a new school, ...
13 years ago
Promotional ceremony held for New Castle County police chief [video]
Nearly four months after being named chief of the New Castle County Police Department, a formal promotional ceremony was held to recogniz ...
13 years ago
ACLU files suit over N.J. grants to religious schools
One woman who last year voted in favor of allowing New Jersey to borrow money for higher education now is part of a coalition suing the s ...
13 years ago
Which N.J. politicians got all that Birdsall money?
The well-connected engineering firm Birdsall Services Group that pleaded guilty to evading New Jersey’s “Pay to Play” l ...
13 years ago
Laid-off music teachers perform farewell concert, hope for encore in Philly classrooms
An 80-piece orchestra performed a farewell concert Monday in the administrative offices of the Philadelphia School District, bidding adie ...
13 years ago
Facelift for the Cape May-Lewes Ferry [video]
The Cape May-Lewes Ferry rechristened one of its newly refurbished ships today ushering in the summer season; the upgrades also come ahea ...
13 years ago
Pa. Legislature eyes busy last week before summer break
The Pennsylvania Legislature’s beginning a busy week before lawmakers depart Harrisburg for the summer. Three prominent comm ...
13 years ago
The abstract landscapes of Philly painter Fabian Lopez [video]
In his fourth-floor studio at the Crane Arts building, Fabian Lopez is applying paint to a small canvas perched on two stacked buckets. T ...
13 years ago
Casey introduces bill to promote clean-energy vehicles
A move is under way to encourage the use of “clean-energy” fuels in cars and trucks, but it can’t happen without a bett ...
13 years ago
Reinvented West Oak Lane Jazz Festival draws modest (but appreciative) crowd
The Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC) reincarnated the shuttered West Oak Lane Jazz Festival on Saturday with a smaller six ...
13 years ago
Secret surveillance reminds us: Trust, but verify
As Ronald Reagan said many times with regard to our treaties with the Soviet Union, “Trust, but verify.” We trust our preside ...
13 years ago
Immigration battle hits home to Philadelphia clergy
Immigration legislation is under review in Washington and some local clergy went to Sen. Pat Toomey’s Philadelphia office to delive ...
13 years ago
Firefly Music Festival announces 2014 dates in Delaware
Less than a day after the second annual Firefly Music Festival wrapped up in Dover, event coordinators have already announced plans to be ...
13 years ago