Lawmakers defend Ackerman

A group of African American legislative leaders today defended Philadelphia schools chief Arlene Ackerman and attacked the Philadelphia I ...

15 years ago

Business boost

The African American Chamber of Commerce of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, in partnership with the Urban Philadelphia Professiona ...

15 years ago

Fired up

The Wilmington Firefighters’ Association will hold a rally and protest for safety this afternoon as a response to the city’s ...

15 years ago

Pipe dream

You didn’t think you were getting through the week without some major traffic inconvenience, did you? Lincoln Drive between Greene ...

15 years ago

Wikifunding

Center City-based mobile payments company XIPWIRE has set up an online donation platform for Wikileaks. You can use the company’s s ...

15 years ago

I for improvement

A few dozen L&I employees received specialized training last week to improve the city agency. Sixty workers for Philadelphia’s ...

15 years ago

More praise

In keeping with today’s news theme, Philadelphia City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds-Brown has shown her support for School Distric ...

15 years ago

To the rescue

Camden may not, after all, lay off quite as many public safety workers as officials are currently planning. Mayor Dana Redd said t ...

15 years ago

Rocky visits council

WHYY’s Elizabeth Fiedler is back from this morning’s Philadelphia council session, which was mostly uninteresting…excep ...

15 years ago

Lincoln Drive in Mt. Airy reopened

(Updated: 6:30 p.m. Lincoln Drive was reopened late this afternoon after a water main break forced it to be closed between Greene and ...

15 years ago

Experience music

Shakespeare said “the Earth has music for those who listen”.  From different points on the globe, we have two very different tak ...

15 years ago

Experience art

We turn now from music that can move us to art that delights and inspires.  What better place to view s ...

15 years ago

Thwarted

They’re not so useless afterall. A car alarm in Chester County triggered the arrest of a burglar over the weekend.   ...

15 years ago