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Pa. hesitates on implementing health-care law

Gov. Tom Corbett’s pick to lead Pennsylvania’s Insurance department says the administration is taking a “wait and see ...

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Pa. may end automatic pay hike for teachers with master’s

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett wants to end automatic pay bumps for teachers with master’s degrees. He also wants to get rid ...

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

New Commish, and other local matters

It’s looking like Philly’s top cop Chuck Ramsey may be ...

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Company tapped to run Martin Luther King High School backs out

Less than a day after the Philadelphia School Reform Commission picked Mosaica Education Inc. to run Martin Luther King High School as a ...

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MLK update: Mosaica out, Foundations in – Evans claims credit

Mosaica Turnaround Partners announced Thursday that they have withdrawn as the turnaround provider for Martin Luther King High School, le ...

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Japanese student at Delaware organizing local relief effort

Nearly 7-thousand miles away, Japanese students at the University of Delaware can’t help but worry about their families back home.< ...

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Mosaica withdraws from MLK; school district press release

The School District of Philadelphia ...

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CHOP stands by grant from beverage industry

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is taking criticism for a $10 million grant it received for childhood obesity prevention an ...

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Suspect descriptions released in post office robbery

Police are developing some leads into yesterday’s armed robbery of the post office in Chestnut Hill. But as of Thursday afternoon t ...

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Jumping through hoops to get into college

Applications, visits, interviews, essays. And then of course, financial aid. Andrew Ferguson is on Radio Times this morning talking about ...

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Laid-off police, firefighters elated some will be back on the job

Camden Mayor Dana Redd said Thursday she will use $2.5 million from the South Jersey Port Corporation to put some laid-off police officer ...

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

This will get your Irish up

Ever hear of the Double Irish? Believe it or not, it’s a name given by tax specialists to a slick maneuver that companies li ...

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Send your March Madness photos to the Feed

Temple just squeaked in a 66-64 NCAA win over Penn State. The Temp ...

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Adolescence, now twice as long

They have been called “twixters” “adult-escents” or the “boomerang generation,” young adults of the u ...

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Slideshow: Weather brings people outside to enjoy St. Patty’s Day

How did you celebrate St. Patty’s Day? Bars around Old City/Callowhill were packed today with green-wearing, shamrock-bearing patro ...

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