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Good morning, Feeders! Hope you’re ready for a news-jammed day. We promise not to overdo it on the ...
15 years ago
Protesters take rally from School District to City Hall
Tom MacDonald snapped this photo of the rally to “Protect Public Education,” in which 500 students and teachers marched this ...
15 years ago
Review eases radiation fears at New Jersey nuclear plants
Despite mild traces of Iodine-131 in New Jersey rain water, further tests found no radiation increase in the state’s milk and water ...
15 years ago
Bissinger calls Ramsey’s announcement a “defining moment” for Nutter
The announcement yesterday on whether Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey would stay in Philadelphia was a big one. Even for those who don ...
15 years ago
Detail of School District’s facilities plan presented today
Details of the School District of Philadelphia’s master facilities plan are expected today at a School Reform Commission meeting af ...
15 years ago
Like a loud, talkative houseguest, PIFA is staying for the month of April. A few weeks ago the program booklet landed on our desk and we& ...
15 years ago
Delaware dishes out 1,500 potassium iodide doses
Middletown’s volunteer fire department distributed about 1,500 doses of potassium iodide yesterday during an extra disbursement of ...
15 years ago
Mt. Airy retailer finds niche as food allergies increase
When Dory Ellen Fish orders lunch, she can cause a commotion. Servers bite their tongue. Nearby diners roll their eyes. “I feel lik ...
15 years ago
Pa. Nobel winner Baruch Blumberg dies
A Philadelphia researcher who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus has died. ...
15 years ago
Searching for a new City Councilperson one question at a time
Participants gathered at the Commodore Barry Club in West Mt. Airy Tuesday for the last of three “Eyes on the Eighth” community forum ...
15 years ago
Heavy traffic on the Delaware Valley Interchange this morning
Morning, feed readers! Double check your traffic reports before heading out the door this morning–if you travel the Pennsylv ...
15 years ago
Head of climate change panel calls on universities to lead charge
The chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was at the University of Delaware in Newark Wednesday evening calling on unive ...
15 years ago
Temple law professor David Post on the new internet
My colleague David Post is this year’s recipient of the Friel-Scanlan prize for the best scholarly publication by a member of the T ...
15 years ago
Stravinsky sounds through artistic melange of PIFA
The month long Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts includes dance, theater, music, painting, poetry, even trapeze acts. It ca ...
15 years ago
Pulling for Fred Duling at Boathouse Row
The Schuylkill River boathouses along Kelly Drive are a beautiful mystery for many Philadelphians. Drivers traveling on I-76 often ...
15 years ago