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Hurricane Irene is gone, but are visitors to Delaware’s beach towns returning? Coastal businesses are counting on the Labor Day wee ...
14 years ago
Vice President Biden to visit University of Delaware
The 1965 University of Delaware alum will donate his Senatorial papers to the school on September 16. Vice President Joe Bide ...
14 years ago
M&T Bank is here as Delawareans say goodbye to Wilmington Trust. And while the name might be different, the Buffalo-based bank says M ...
14 years ago
Changing faces of New Jersey Surpeme Court
As one New Jersey Supreme Court justice is sworn in, another retires. Today was the swearing-in ceremony for Anne Patterson and ye ...
14 years ago
Astrophysicists discover the most efficient method for boarding an airplane
The next time you’re suffering through a long boarding procedure at Philadelphia International Airport, you might make a suggestion ...
14 years ago
New city office begins reassessing Philadelphia properties
The reassessment of properties in Philadelphia is officially under way. It’s the first time homes will be valued since creation of ...
14 years ago
Philly cop charged with raping woman in squad car
Four-year Philadelphia police officer Keith Corley II is charged with rape, indecent assault and related offenses in the case of a woman ...
14 years ago
Obama through the lens of absurdity
I read the news today, oh boy. A newspaper headline blared, “Obama Blinks on Jobs Speech.” The Associated Press reported that ...
14 years ago
Not a good time to be uninsured in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania health care advocates say there are two notable milestones this week in the long-running push for affordable health care and ...
14 years ago
Defrocked priest loses bid to keep Pa. parish
A judge has denied a defrocked Episcopal priest’s attempt to maintain control of his suburban Philadelphia parish. ...
14 years ago
Six more Delaware schools added to Partnership Zone
Delaware’s Secretary of Education announced six more schools to join the state’s Partnership Zone, joining the four schools i ...
14 years ago
To cope with a slope, part two: What flopped
I was away for Irene’s visit to Philly, but returned to find that my slope was mostly intact. The precariously balancing tre ...
14 years ago
Blogging teacher: Nobody was ‘rude’ on first day
The Central Bucks High School East teacher temporarily suspended after calling her students “utterly loathsome” and “di ...
14 years ago
NJ public workers unions sue over benefit changes
Unions for New Jersey teachers, police officers and other state workers are suing the state over changes to their pension and health insu ...
14 years ago
An audio exhibit of not-so-quiet moments of silence
The curator at the Tyler School of Art, at Temple University, has been quietly doing research on the history and aesthetics of quiet. He ...
14 years ago