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Charter students design city models based on green concepts
What would a city designed by middle school students look like? Not as unrealistic and idealistic as you might imagine.
Eighty-six
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13 years ago
Examining the federal budget with economist Dean Baker
Join Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane this morning as she talks with economist Dean Baker.
Baker, co-director of the Center for E
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13 years ago
Vineland ice cream shop serving vegetable-flavored custard
First smoothies, then fruit juices, now ice cream. Vegetables are sneaking up everywhere as a way to trick ourselves and our kids into ea
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13 years ago
Suburban papers holding contest for a year’s worth of free gas
Update: The contest is also being offered by the Tri-county Record, Delaware County Daily Times, Phoenix and the West Ch
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13 years ago
Olympic gold-medalist Carl Lewis may announce a bid to run for the N.J. state senate at a press conference scheduled for 2pm this afterno
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13 years ago
More than 12 charged in Philly dogfighting raid
Update: WHYY’s Lizz Fiedler tells us the PSPCA is currently staging another dogfighting bust in Kensington. Author
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13 years ago
Downed wire slowing trains in NJ
Morning, feed readers.
Hope you enjoyed the weekend, ’cause if you take Amtrak, you’re starting the week with a headac
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13 years ago
14th District: Two small fires set at Martin Luther King High School
14th Police District in Philadelphia
43 W. Haines Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144
This district covers Chestnut Hill, Mt.
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13 years ago
The arrival of Spring: See it for yourself
The Philadelphia region has had two harsh winters in a row. Remember the
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13 years ago
Student designed cities explore going green
Mayor Michael Nutter apologized Friday to a group of seventh and eighth graders about the environmental problems they will inherit as the
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13 years ago
Doing my taxes: silly investing mistakes I made that you can avoid
I teach and study taxation for a living, so you might think I enjoy doing my taxes so much that I’m an early filer. The truth is j
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13 years ago
Gila Williams unseats five-time East Falls chili champion
The aroma of fresh chili in crock pots, the flavor of countless spices and the chatter of old friends reconnecting, invigorated the sense
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13 years ago
The Philadelphia region has had two harsh winters in a row. Remember the
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13 years ago
Most immigrants deported from Philadelphia are not criminals
Advocates for immigrants have always criticized a federal program that gives the immigration authority access to arrest records. Now, the
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13 years ago
‘Let Me Down Easy’ brings health-care stories to stage
There an old George Burns joke that Burns told when he was old. It goes like this:
Burns is doing some shows in Las Vegas and stay
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13 years ago