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Move to put PennDOT in charge of turnpike gains support

Pennsylvania House Republicans are backing a proposal to eliminate the state Turnpike Commission in the wake of last month’s grand ...

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N.J. business regulations have Garden State lawmaker ready to move to Pa.

A member of Gov. Chris Christie’s own party is blasting New Jersey’s business climate.   Sen. Tony Bucco, ...

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Philadelphia district to launch online school

The Philadelphia School District plans to launch its own online school this summer, part of an effort to reclaim thousands of students an ...

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Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Art Alliance showcases work created with a single tool

The Philadelphia Art Alliance, in Rittenhouse Square, is exhibiting art made under artificially imposed restrictions. “The T ...

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A primate expert speaks on atheism, apes and the evolution of virtue

(Note to readers: I wrote this story last week, before any of us could imagine someone would deliberately set off bombs at the Boston ...

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Gosnell abortion trial: Clerk gave anesthesia

A woman trained only as a medical assistant says she gave anesthesia and changed dosages when she worked at a Philadelphia abortion clini ...

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Fumo affecting property tax reform

As Philadelphia City Council members consider how to provide relief to homeowners in gentrifying neighborhoods as the city moves to a mar ...

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Politics & Policy

Toomey background check amendment fails in Senate

Though more that 90 percent of Americans support requiring background checks for all gun buyers, it was not enough to convince U.S. legis ...

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Security reviewed for U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club

The Boston Marathon bombings have prompted organizers of the U.S. Open golf championship to take a deeper look at security measures in pl ...

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Another Northwest Philadelphia daycare center burglarized [video]

Philadelphia Police have released surveillance footage of a pair of unknown burglars breaking into an East Germantown daycare center earl ...

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Three years after N.J. legalized medical marijuana, only one center is open

Three years after New Jersey’s medical marijuana law was enacted, only one of the six authorized alternative treatment centers is d ...

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Speak Easy

Today I need to run

Running is my therapy, it’s my drug and, more than anything, it is my friend. And so I had ...

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‘Pacemakers for brain’ offer new treatment options for depression at N.J. center

A new University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey center in Cherry Hill offers a slew of cutting-edge options for people with depr ...

13 years ago

Lifestyle

Foreign journalists descend on Philadelphia

The plan: fly in a handful of foreign journalists. The goal: gin up some positive press. That’s the idea behind a media ...

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Greene Street Friends grad returns to talk about nanotechnology and storytelling

Author, ethicist and futurist Rosalyn Wiggins Berne will return to Germantown this week to speak at Greene Street Friends School, the sce ...

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