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Highlights from Thursday’s final City Council session
After voting “Aye” to legislation that would allocate tax revenues for the cash-strapped and otherwise beleaguered Philadelph ...
14 years ago
Rich Boris takes us back in time at his vintage kitchen and collectibles shop on Ridge
Standing in the midst of thousands of old kitchen appliances, house wares, Life Magazines, and tchotchkes, Rich Boris lovingly refers to ...
14 years ago
Historic parade to bid a final farewell to three of Manayunk’s closing churches
One hundred and eighty-two years ago, a Sunday school teacher in Manayunk launched a Fourth of July parade and picnic celebration that wo ...
14 years ago
Wilmington city council calls special public safety meeting
Wilmington city council member at-large, Loretta Walsh, has called a special public safety meeting tonight, after what’s been a dea ...
14 years ago
The health benefits of a simple N.J. farm stand
It’s the harvest season and roadside farm stands will soon be full of locally grown, farm-fresh fruits and vegetables. What we eat ...
14 years ago
With constitutional question settled, divining what’s next for Affordable Care
Health policy wonks and legal soothsayers continue to sift through the implications of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the federal h ...
14 years ago
$27.7 billion budget moves toward final vote in Pa.
Now that lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House have endorsed a Republican-negotiated $27.7 billion budget, the spending plan will move to t ...
14 years ago
Muscle cars revving up for Philly exhibit
We don’t even know what some of these cars can do. In the 1960s and ’70s, the big three American automobile manufactur ...
14 years ago
Northwest Philadelphia residents and officials react to health care ruling
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold health care reform with a 5-4 vote. Under the individual mandate, nearly all Americans woul ...
14 years ago