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N.J. waiters, bartenders could see minimum wage hike

Waitresses, bartenders and others in New Jersey who work primarily for tips could soon see an increase in their base pay. The Asse ...

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Voices in the Family

Do therapists function as ‘marital combat ninjas’?

A marital combat ninja, a pilot guiding a helicopter through a storm — that’s how marriage therapists describe their job, accordi ...

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Camden County vets eligible for new cemetery space

A final resting place for veterans in Camden County will be dedicated later this spring.   ...

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Sister Rosemary Herron’s fiscal foresight keeps Mercy Vocational on track

With Catholic schools shutting their doors across the city, Mercy Vocational High School is thriving. Much of the school’s success ...

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Students present plans to revamp Roxborough’s Gorgas Park

Have you ever seen a tunnel exposing the earth’s layers of a hillside in a park? Or how about skywalks, bright orange canopies, wat ...

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 Omar Gray was a street-cleaning mainstay for the Germantown Special Services District until its funding dried up. He's hoping to return once the GSSD offers a broom. (Aaron Moselle/for NewsWorks)
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Germantown’s Omar Gray just wants to get back to cleaning streets and sidewalks

For the better part of a decade, Omar Gray tirelessly cleaned the area's streets, cracks and crevices as an employee with the Germantown Special Services District.

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Balance fitness relocation backed by CHCA but neighborhood opposition is expected

Balance Chestnut Hill’s move from East Highland to West Willow Grove avenues has the full support of the Chestnut Hill Community As ...

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Arts likely to play bigger role in Mt. Airy USA’s economic development strategy

It was the success of last summer’s Movie Nights at the Lovett Library Park that sparked Mt. Airy USA ( ...

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A kinder, gentler kind of bombing

In honor of FiberPhiladelphia 2012 (a regional festival celebrating fiber a ...

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NYC to Atlantic City train folds: a good idea that failed on execution

Bad news for Atlantic City: the ACES has gone bust. The train debuted in February of 2009 as a direct connection between New York ...

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It’s high time Christie started to care

When it came time to honor Whitney Houston, a noted drug addict who admitted to using cocaine and marijuana, Governor Chris Christie defe ...

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March 12-16: Photographer Vincent Feldman, Next Great City coalition meeting, The Library in the City, benchmarking commercial buildings

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