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Republican duo rally Phila. voters
The Republican candidates for statewide office in Pennsylvania were flying from campaign stop to campaign stop Monday on the eve of the e ...
16 years ago
Pennsylvania will probably be very late on early voting
Experts see resistance to changing the political process in Northeastern states. And the leader of The Committee of 70 predicts the Keyst ...
16 years ago
Committee of Seventy, DA’s office keep tabs on polling places
Negative ads may keep voters at home, predicts Zack Stalberg of the Committee of Seventy watchdog group. The Philadelphia Distric ...
16 years ago
Philadelphia’s unique polling sites
Philadelphia’s voters are heading to the city’s 1,687 polling places today. To accommodate this many districts, the city has ...
16 years ago
Tea Party Express rolls into Wilmington
A flag-waving throng gathered on the Wilmington riverfront Sunday for the arrival of the Tea Party Express, a bus tour wrapping up ...
16 years ago
Political passions running high in Bucks County
As democrats battle to hold the House of Representatives, several hotly contested races are being fought in Pennsylvania. Soon af ...
16 years ago
From the palette to the ballot: Gallery opens doors to voters
For a third year, the Painted Bride exhibits civic duty by serving as a polling place for Old City voters. It’s the only gallery in ...
16 years ago
Toomey and Sestak “neck and neck”
It’s a race that’s seen $25 million in outside spending, most of it for slash and burn TV ads. At a rally in Bri ...
16 years ago
N.J. lawmaker wants to help college students get jobs
With tax incentives for businesses, Assemblywoman Pam Lampitt’s plan aims to keep college graduates in New Jersey as well as attrac ...
16 years ago
Phone app shuts down texting in cars
Though it might be illegal in some states, teens still do it. That’s texting while driving. A Cherry Hill company says it ha ...
16 years ago
FDA holds hearings on the path to biosimilars
Medical therapies called biologics come only in brand-name form. Different from pharmaceuticals made from chemicals, biologic therapies a ...
16 years ago
Nine million in arts funding up for grabs
If you can boil your idea down to 150 words, the Knight Arts Challenge promises to consider it. A hi-tech fabrication workshop in ...
16 years ago
Some absentee ballots go awry in Philadelphia
Some Philadelphia voters have gotten back their completed ballots. Officials say the problem is not widespread. Philadelphia elect ...
16 years ago
It’s time to turn back the clocks!
It’s time to turn back the clocks again, but what does this mean astronomically? And a distant galaxy is discovered, the most distant g ...
16 years ago
Blood and guts spill out at museum
Blood and guts and brains may sound like leftovers from a gruesome Halloween costume,but it’s everyday stuff at the Academy of Natu ...
16 years ago