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New Jersey outsources marketing and sales divisions of its lottery
New Jersey has signed a contract to outsource part of the state lottery operation and collect $120 million from the vendor as part of the ...
13 years ago
Janet Tebbel, carilloneur at First United Methodist Church of Germantown, 6001 Germantown Avenue, will offer an hour of well-known music ...
13 years ago
Germantown Special Services District Mtg.June 25
The Germantown Special Services District board of directors will hold its first official public meeting on Tuesday, June 25, 6-8 p.m., in ...
13 years ago
Pa Governor’s race now “leaning Democratic,” analyst says
One of the nation’s leading political analysts has changed his rating of next year’s Pennsylvania governor’s race ...
13 years ago
Firefly traffic backs up Delaware roads
The second annual Firefly Music Festival is underway at The Woodlands in Dover and DelDOT is monitoring the influx of concertgoers to kee ...
13 years ago
Companies promising online privacy see post-PRISM bump
Earlier this month, Americans learned about widespread government surveillance of their online information. The National Security ...
13 years ago
Treetop adventure course opens in Delaware [video]
Hanging from a wire, visitors to Lums Pond can experience the state park from 50 feet up in the trees, now that Go Ape has officially ope ...
13 years ago
‘Jawn’ is one Philly thing New York can’t lay claim to
When I moved from North Carolina to Philadelphia a few years ago to teach at Gwynedd-Mercy College, I noticed a lot of things that were u ...
13 years ago
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Class of 2015 will receive Girard College diplomas
Girard College’s class of 2015 will get to graduate after all, according to the Board of City Trusts. Following last week ...
13 years ago
Every Philadelphian has a role to play in school funding
Every single resident, every single business owner, every Philadelphia politician, every city power broker has a stake in the 200,000 stu ...
13 years ago
Why QR code poems cause conflict in Philly’s Old City
For almost two years now, artist Judy Breslin has been placing hundreds of poems on buildings across Philadelphia. There’s n ...
13 years ago
Photos from the 2013 Martin Luther King High School commencement ceremony [gallery]
Martin Luther King High School’s Class of 2013 graduated during a ceremony held at Temple University’s Liacouras Center on Th ...
13 years ago
Border security has become a phony issue
It appears that a goodly number of Republicans — at least in the Senate — will support historic path-to-citzenship immigratio ...
13 years ago
Effort afoot to bring Night Market to Germantown
State Rep. Stephen Kinsey and Ogontz Avenue Redevelopment Corporation CEO Jack Kitchen told NewsWorks Thursday night that hostin ...
13 years ago
Weekly Entertainment Guide – ‘Wicked,’ ‘Love, Loss & What I Wore,” and Jennifer Bartlett at PAFA
Looking for something to do this week? WHYY’s Robin Bloom has some recommendations on what’s happening in the Philadelphia re ...
13 years ago