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Dwight Evans at odds with school district vote
Dwight Evans still has a vision, but the Philadelphia School District isn’t cooperating. Wednesday’s vote by the School Reform ...
15 years ago
House hearing on whether to bar federal funding to NPR
Update: The House has voted to defund NPR. Original report: Listen to NPR? Then watch C-SPAN right now. ...
15 years ago
The one and only time I took a Ride the Ducks boat was to oblige friends who wanted to take the land/water tour while visiting Philly. ...
15 years ago
Philly to smokers: Get help to quit
Smokers who try to quit with help are two to three times more likely to be successful. Philadelphia’s $2 million quit-smoking campa ...
15 years ago
Woman from iconic napalm photo speaks at Haverford
Haverford College is getting a visit from a woman who–for many–embodies the brutality of war. Kim Phuc Phan Thi was ni ...
15 years ago
Assemblyman likens Christie’s town halls to tax payer-funded campaign
There’s been much speculation about whether N.J. Gov. Chris Christie will make a Republican run for president. If it’s at all ...
15 years ago
Video: Man plays trumpet while rollerblading through Philadelphia
This guy is having a better day than you. On her way back from Camden, WHYY’s Lizz Fiedler spotted this trumpet-playing rollerblade ...
15 years ago
Delaware train station will carry the Biden name
Wilmington’s Amtrak station is the 12th busiest among train stations. This Saturday it’s going to receive a special honor. The ...
15 years ago
Are ballot positions behind challenge to Street?
Ballot position selections are about as scientific as that seventh grade science fair project measuring the duration of flavor of differe ...
15 years ago
Proposed City Council resolution backs Hope Moffett
A Philadelphia teacher who has been sent to so-called “teacher jail” while the district tries to fire her is winning support ...
15 years ago
Franco’s Trattoria in East Falls closes
Franco’s Trattoria, which overlooks the Schuylkill River from a scenic location off ...
15 years ago
Philly fans take top two spots as sports’ meanest
Deep breaths. Count backward from 10. Punch a pillow. Do your best to restrain yourselves, because we’ve already been named the mea ...
15 years ago
Camden to hire 50 police officers with PILOT money
Camden Mayor Dana Redd has announced the city will rehire 50 police officers and five firefighters with $2.5 million in port PILOT money. ...
15 years ago
Cue the fatuous outrage. The usual suspects are in high dudgeon that President Obama had the temerity, in a time of crisis, to fill out h ...
15 years ago
Cue the fatuous outrage. The usual suspects are in high dudgeon that President Obama had the temerity, in a time of crisis, to fill out h ...
15 years ago