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Chicago school bans homemade lunches
Healthy or not, cafeteria food tends to have a . . . well, a cafeteria-like quality.
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Women’s groups trying to pry sick leave bill from Philadelphia City Council limbo
Women’s service and advocacy groups are not happy that a bill calling for sick leave for all workers in Philadelphia, is sitting in
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13 years ago
District high school students talk about safey policies
If you’re not causing trouble in school and you’re not the target of bullying attacks, what’s it like to pass through m
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13 years ago
Pennsylvania Game Commission debates open season for porcupines
A decision expected today from the Pennsylvania Game Commission could yield porcupines the same fate as opossums, skunks, weasels, coyote
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13 years ago
Sussex Emergency Ops Center is going solar
The Sussex County Emergency Operations Center will soon have a new source of power thanks to a nearly $650,000 federal grant.
Coun
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13 years ago
Nutter loses table tennis game to U.S. under-nine champ
Mayor Michael Nutter was reportedly a good sport Friday night after his table tennis loss. Nutter was at the Fall Center for the grand op
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13 years ago
Philadelphia improves in national small-business ranking
Philadelphia has climbed several rungs in the small-business vitality ladder, taking the No. 48 spot out of the nation’s 100 major
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13 years ago
Making sense of radiation levels in Philadelphia drinking water
New tests of drinking water around Philadelphia show trace amounts of radiation, but federal environmental protection officials say
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13 years ago
“Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Don’t forget to circle May 5 on your calendar! Fox News is slated to broadcast the first Republican debate of the ’12 preside
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13 years ago
America has always been a melting pot, and in this case that pot contains chocolate.
A Greek immigrant set up shop in Wilmin
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13 years ago
Baseball commercial highlights New York/Boston rivalry with a dash of Philadelphia
Philadelphia takes a ribbing in a new baseball commercial, but it’s all in good fun. The ad for New Era, the company that makes the
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13 years ago
Nutter announces 2011 “Welcome America” performers
In a departure from previous years, Mayor Michael Nutter announced this morning a handful acts joining the Roots for this year’s Fo
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13 years ago
Civil War commemoration begins
Ladies and gentlemen, the Civil War has begun. Beginning today, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania will commemorate the 150th anniver
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13 years ago
Memory of Philly’s Jazz roots lives on
Mayor Michael Nutter has declared April Jazz Appreciation Month in Philadelphia.
But jazz in Philadelphia has seen better days.
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13 years ago
Ramsey says SugarHouse hasn’t significantly raised area crime rates
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said yesterday the opening of SugarHouse Casino in Fishtown hasn’t brought crime to the neighbor
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13 years ago