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Remember Presidents’ Day — and garbage day
NewsWorks’ Shannon McDonald wants to give props to PhiladelphiaSpeaks user “hubba1” for using the online neighborhood f ...
14 years ago
Newsrooms, not newspapers, are the asset that needs to be saved
I worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 20 years, and every time this one thing happened, I hated it. At regular interv ...
14 years ago
Emergency medical information sticker program launched in Philadelphia
As parents, we take many preventive me ...
14 years ago
After six months, what do students think about New Jersey’s anti-bullying law?
It has been close to six months since the “Anti-bullying Bill of Rights” went into effect in New Jersey. Regarded by some as ...
14 years ago
More flexible curriculum coming to Philadelphia schools
Things have been tense lately between the Philadelphia Federation of teachers and the spending-cutting School District of Philadelphia, b ...
14 years ago
Victorino plays business exec on tonight’s ‘Hawaii Five-0’
You’ve seen him in a King of Prussia Mall commercial, you might have had his namesake hot-dog at Memphis Taproom. Tonight, y ...
14 years ago
A struggling Germantown Ave. museum will host Tuskegee veterans this week
Althea Hankins, founder and co-curator of the ACES Museum, was making her ...
14 years ago
New car wash receives mixed reaction in Roxborough
Construction is almost complete on a new car wash shop along the Ridge. The business, All Seasons Car Wash, will be located across from t ...
14 years ago
POLL: What do you think should happen to Buttonwood Hospital?
Buttonwood Hospital has been operating at a loss for years. The county projects it would need $50 million in taxpayer subsidizes ...
14 years ago
If you were to write your New Jersey legislator, what would you say?
On Friday evening, Governor Chris Christie vetoed a same-sex marriage bill in New Jersey that had only just been passed through the Assem ...
14 years ago
Christie: Less Superman, more Clark Kent
I’ve drawn Chris Christie a lot as Superman. After all, isn’t he the guy who flew into Trenton promising to rid us of public ...
14 years ago