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Navigating health-care system more complicated for transgender people
The Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference is taking place this weekend. Though some say transgender health issues get a little more attent
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13 years ago
Art show, contest comes to Peddler’s Village this weekend
A two-day art exhibit and contest comes to Peddler’s Village in Lahaska, Bucks County, this weekend for a blend of original artwork
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13 years ago
Philadelphia Beer Week kicked off with a daylong bar crawl downtown Friday.
On Sunday, a slightly more cerebral event awaits. Loca
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13 years ago
Ackerman says full-day kindergarten will stay
School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman announced at an afternoon press conference that full-day kindergarten will stay. WHYY̵
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13 years ago
Small miracles in education, Palin dodges scribes, and the Phils owe somebody a lot
What makes struggling schools better? It’s a big subject, but it seems a common denominator of high-achieving schools in poor neigh
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13 years ago
Will privatizing liquor sales make people drink more?
A Pennsylvania think tank is coming out against privatizing liquor sales with an old argument backed up by some new analysis.
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13 years ago
Dickinson Square Farmers Market opens today
It’s opening day. No, not for the Phillies. We already did tha
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13 years ago
Conference highlights transgender health issues, brewers hope to recreate a familiar taste
Welcome to the end of NewsWorks Tonight’s third week. Tonight’s broadcast features some weekend previews and late-breaking ne
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13 years ago
Interview with Hispanic American college scholarship contest winner
Michelle Saul-Yamasaki is a senior at Girard Academic Music Program in South Philly, and she also happens to be one of 15 winners of the
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13 years ago
Low turnout, little competition expected in N.J. primary
Political analysts do not expect any real competitive legislative races in Tuesday’s primary election in New Jersey.
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13 years ago
Patient car share programs gives 1,000th free ride
This week marked the 1,000th free ride from the PhillyPatientRide program. The service began in January as a partnership between PhillyCa
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13 years ago
Delaware pushes conservation in the river basin
If the Delaware River is worth $20 billion to the economies from the Catskills to Cape Henlopen, would a coordinated conservation effort
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13 years ago
Child falls from Wildwood Ferris Wheel
4:20 p.m. The Associated Press corrects the child’s age. She is 11.
3:45 p.m. The Associat
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N.J. brownfields reclamation program stalls
The “brownfields” program that helps New Jersey towns and developers clean up contaminated properties has run out of money.
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13 years ago
Cyclists mobilize to keep Philadelphia bike lanes moving
Philadelphia City Council is sitting on a bill that would block the city from painting new bike lanes, unless Council approves.
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