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City wins stimulus grant for smart traffic signals

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Still full of life, 114-year-old Sheppard School faces its demise

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Neighborhood association endorses large grocery store/condo project for Chestnut Hill

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Philly to offer free stop-smoking help

Philadelphia is handing out a holiday stocking stuffer that could save lives. Adult smokers can get a month’s supply of nico ...

14 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

When punishment fits the offense – city Ethics Board gets it right

When you write about politics, you sometimes find beauty in the simplest of things. Yesterday, we saw another example of why the w ...

14 years ago

One man’s plea for the safe return of his stolen Santa

They came upon a midnight clear, and left the lighting behind. Sean Dieter opened the door of his East Falls home on the morning o ...

14 years ago

Politics & Policy

City ethics board fines, fires two Council employees for political work

Two Philadelphia City Council staff members will lose their jobs and pay fines after city Ethics Board investigators caught them doing po ...

14 years ago

Philadelphia area Catholics remember Cardinal John Foley

UPDATED: December, 15, 2011 Funeral services for Cardinal John Patrick Foley began Thursday at Saint Charles Borr ...

14 years ago

Money

Why a Philly tech startup moved to New York

Joseph Cohen and his classmates are technically alumni of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, but they did ...

14 years ago

First meeting of new Philadelphia food truck vendors association

Some of Philadelphia street-food vendors are forming an association to open the industry to more operators. The first meeting of Philadel ...

14 years ago

SEPTA could be on cutting edge with so-called ‘open fare’

SEPTA is at the cutting edge of public transit-at least that’s what one expert says. Soon, SEPTA riders could start paying t ...

14 years ago

New Jersey may eliminate its waiting period for marriage licenses

As Assembly committee has approved legislation to stimulate New Jersey’s wedding and tourism industry.The measure would eliminate N ...

14 years ago

Science

Casey stumps for defense jobs in Delco

Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Bob Casey visited the Boeing plant in Ridley, Township, Delaware County today, urging the Defense Department to ...

14 years ago

Public release of Pennsylvania’s new Congressional maps delayed

The first public glimpse at new boundaries for the commonwealth’s congressional districts was supposed to be this morning. The meet ...

14 years ago

Bucks County case will challenge cap on damage awards against Pa. governments

Pennsylvania law limits how much the victim of a 2007 runaway school bus accident in Bucks County can receive in a civil case against the ...

14 years ago

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