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PATCO rolls out Quiet Car trial period March 1
Taking a cue from SEPTA, NJ Transit and customer surveys, PATCO will launch its quiet car trial later this winter to try to give passenge ...
14 years ago
Tony Danza and Sen. Stack speak out for Philadelphia schools
A state senator and an actor who became a Philadelphia teacher for a reality TV show are speaking out together for the city’s publi ...
14 years ago
Coming to a City Paper honor box near you: immigration reporting on de-industrialized cities
2012 holds a lot of promises. Everything will be gamified, we’ll find out who’s ...
14 years ago
Nutter joins city and neighborhood officials to open the revitalized Manayunk Towpath
Kay Sykora fist pumped the air when she reached the podium placed at the foot of the Manayunk Canal Towpath on Thursday morning. S ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia still in a pickle that could cost millions
At the request of a Newsworks reader, I wanted to come back to an issue I wrote about six months ago which could blow a multi-million dol ...
14 years ago
24-hour staffing at Philadelphia’s real-time crime surveillance center
Philadelphia has joined the ranks of about 10 cities to have a Real-Time Crime Center stocked with surveillance videos, databases and oth ...
14 years ago
Triplet injured in Burlington County school bus crash released from hospital
One of the three students critically injured last week in a school bus crash in Burlington County, N.J., has been released from the hospi ...
14 years ago
Lawyers seek jurors for Philly priest-abuse trial
About 150 potential jurors will be questioned next week about their ability to spend several months hearing a landmark priest sex abuse ...
14 years ago
Christie wants mandatory drug court for nonviolent offenders in N.J.
Next week, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie is expected to announce details of his plan requiring nonviolent offenders to enroll in “drug c ...
14 years ago
NBC10 weather: Overnight showers continue into Friday morning
Pay no attention to the rain we’re about to get. Friday will hit almost 70 degrees. In February. Enjoy it, because Saturday will be ...
14 years ago
What to make of an early spring
They blanket the lawns of older homes; small lavender flowers that seem to pop out of nowhere in the beginning of spring, and then disapp ...
14 years ago
Planning Commission rejects Jones’ Germany Hill bill
The city Planning Commission this week voted against a bill introduced ...
14 years ago
Superintendent-search public discussions come to Leeds Middle School
“We’re not going to force people to talk, but we’re encouraging them to talk,” said Harris Sokoloff, director of ...
14 years ago
Fliers announce new Fishtown hotel, much to the surprise of neighbors, planners
Is there a new hotel coming to Fishtown or not? Based on the little information the city and neighborhood leaders have and the min ...
14 years ago