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Philly schools issue layoff notices; some blocked
The Philadelphia School District has begun issuing thousands of layoff notices to teachers and other employees, but a judge has ordered t ...
15 years ago
The polls are open in NJ, but few incumbents face serious primary challenges
The polls in New Jersey are officially open, and they’ll stay that way ’til 8 p.m. Voters w ...
15 years ago
Santorum doesn’t always play nice, but some like it that way
Rick Santorum doesn’t have a reputation for playing nice. Early in the Republican’s U.S. Senate career, Democrat Bob Kerrey ...
15 years ago
A banner day for fashion in Philly
Like a scene from “The Sound of Music,” advertisement banners that had fluttered from poles along Broad Street were pulled d ...
15 years ago
Renewed vision for Manayunk’s Umbria Village
It’s the same name, but a very different vision for a possible residential development near SEPTA’s Ivy Ridge train station i ...
15 years ago
Urban honey venture swarms Northwest Philadelphia
On a recent cloud-covered Monday, Trey Flemming scales a short ladder propped against the side of Weavers Way Co-op in Chestnut Hill. It& ...
15 years ago
Laid-off Philly teachers get temporary reprieve
A Philadelphia Common Pleas judge Monday afternoon rescinded layoff notices given earlier that day to 1,523 teachers across the School Di ...
15 years ago
N.J. public workers rush toward retirement
New Jersey public workers are retiring in record numbers. About 20,000 public employees retired last year and nearly 15,000 are ex ...
15 years ago