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Photo gallery: Organized protest targets Comcast’s ‘corporate agenga’
In what was meant to be a mass protest against Comcast, people of Philadelphia stood outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center Thursday
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Philly ban on feeding homeless in public parks begins Friday
Philadelphia’s ban on feeding the hungry in public parks goes into effect Friday. Initiation of the new policy follows a City Counc
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12 years ago
Delaware school board elections the focus of new proposal
Delaware lawmakers are doing their best to bring more voters to the polls, particularly for school board elections, after years of l
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Corbett’s judicial pick rankles chief justice
Gov. Tom Corbett’s first judicial nominee is apparently a surprise to state Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille.
Castille
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How one Philadelphia neighborhood is battling graffiti
Mt. Airy’s Business Improvement District (BID) will take the lead in putting together a community meeting to address an on-going gr
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PIFA 2013 to take visitors on a journey through time
The second Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts is scheduled for the spring of 2013, posin
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Crack down on unsafe bus companies spans six states
Federal officials say more than two dozen bus operations that transported more than 1,800 passengers a day along Interstate 95 between
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Lucky Star, VFW bingo hall, Pinki Nail Salon and cigar shop slated to reopen in December
More than seven months after a fire gutted much of the Roxborough Market Square shopping center, plans for rebuilding four damaged busine
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Feds shut 26 bus lines, including two from Philadelphia for safety violations
The federal Department of Transportation has shut down 26 bus companies, including the Philadelphia-based firm New Century Travel and its
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PennDOT to help Newtown with two road projects
From Goshen Road to the Gradyville Road bridge, Newtown, Delaware County, will get help from PennDOT to make its roads safer.
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Invasivores land ‘Frankenfish’ on the menu
Food trends seem to be a dime a dozen these days. Omnivores, locavores, and now, the latest: invasivores. Their motto? If you can’
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Council plans to work on budget deal next week
Philadelphia still doesn’t have a budget, but the leader of City Council says he wants a resolution soon. Council President Darrell
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Blackwood resident won’t be in Spelling Bee semifinals
Two correctly spelled words weren’t enough to get Bisma Nasir into the Scripps National Spelling Bee semifinals.
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Councilman wants a tax break for long-term residents of gentrified Philly neighborhoods
As Philadelphia homeowners brace for property tax hikes that are likely to come with re-assessment, Councilman Jim Kenney is proposing a
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12 years ago
One of the confusing and frustrating things gardeners sometimes contend with is a plant (often a shrub) that won’t bloom.
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