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Casey announces $1 million for Philly to correct safety hazards
U.S. Senator Bob Casey announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $1 million to the Philadelphia Dep
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14 years ago
New report blasts school zero tolerance policies
A new report criticizes the School District of Philadelphia’s Zero Tolerance program to prevent violence. The authors believe
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14 years ago
Web developers design for good this weekend
For many, Martin Luther King Jr. Day means community service. For web developers, that means coding. At the second Philly Give Camp this
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14 years ago
Philadelphia PR specialists team up
Two public relations specialists in Philadelphia have united to form a new Center City firm: g2 Communications. Melissa Grimm, formerly o
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14 years ago
Contact voltage more common than it seems
You’re not as strange as you feel when you purposely avoid metal grates on the sidewalk.
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14 years ago
New Jersey judge to probe fairness of school funding formula
New Jersey’s Supreme Court has appointed a special master to collect more information about the adequacy of education funding.
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14 years ago
Residents’ views of Germantown murder vary
For some, it doesn’t matter. To others, it signifies a subtle change in the neighborhood. But for one resident of the 700-block of
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14 years ago
Race Street Pier development moving forward
Plans for the Race Street Pier are ambitious. And, apparently, moving along as planned. Members of the Delaware River Waterfront Corporat
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14 years ago
Princeton student dies in dorm room
Princeton University tonight will hold a memorial for a student who died in her dorm room today. Freshman Khristin Kyllo was discovered i
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14 years ago
Osberg lectured Platt on inappropriate gift
Among the reservations staffers and readers of the Daily News have about the appointment of former Philly mag editor Larry Platt is a rep
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14 years ago
Watchdog groups want politics out of drawing Pennsylvania’s legislative map
As state lawmakers in Pennsylvania prepare to draw new legislative districts this year, government reform advocates are calling for a mor
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14 years ago
Mastery Charter wants 6th grade at two Renaissance Schools
Two K-5 Mastery Charter Renaissance Schools are seeking to include sixth graders. Mastery-Smedley in Frankford and Mastery-Mann in West P
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14 years ago