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Demolition of prison clearing way for improvement in Camden
The demolition of Camden’s Riverfront State Prison is officially underway. The demolition of Camden’s Riverfront Stat ...
16 years ago
Audits of the Pennsylvania Welfare Department over the last several years have exposed massive levels of waste and potential fraud. ...
16 years ago
Digest This: Pregnancy and medications
Don’t drink coffee, don’t eat tuna, don’t clean up cat litter, don’t get too stressed out – pregnant women ...
16 years ago
Dad Vail Regatta to stay in Philadelphia
The Dad Vail Regatta will stay in Philadelphia after all. A plan to move the coveted rowing event to New Jersey was dropped after a ...
16 years ago
Philadelphia hasn’t given up on citywide wi-fi
The city of Philadelphia is purchasing the wireless internet system installed by Earthlink as part of a new wireless Philadelphia project ...
16 years ago
No more signs of medication-resistant H1N1 in Delaware
Cases of H1N1 were slightly up over the last week in the First State, but there’s been no evidence of more antiviral-resistant stra ...
16 years ago
Mystery behind human bones found in Phila. basement
Something is clearly out of the ordinary in the basement of a house in Philadelphia’s Fairmount section. Neighbors can’t stop ...
16 years ago
Poll: PA Gov’s Race, Anybody’s Game
A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that with five months to go before the primary, the Democratic race for governor is wide open. ...
16 years ago
Phila. council OKs $100K for PR firm
Ross Associates, a firm run by Bill Miller, won the contract to offer communications advise to City Council in 2010. Miller has worked fo ...
16 years ago
BRT reorganization will go to Phila. voters in May
A proposed city charter that would replace the Board of Revision of Taxes with two new agencies will go to the voters in the spring. But ...
16 years ago
Delaware legislature posts finances online
Calling it another step toward transparency and open government, the Delaware General Assembly makes financial records available through ...
16 years ago
Lt. Gov. of NJ also named Sec. of State
New Jersey’s first Lieutenant Governor will also be asked to handle a second job. New Jersey’s first Lieutenant Govern ...
16 years ago
D.A. blames judges for conviction rates
Philadelphia District Attorney Lynn Abraham says judges are to blame for the city having the nation’s lowest conviction rate for vi ...
16 years ago
Arts orgs fight back against McCain, Coburn
Last week Senators John McCain and Tom Coburn issued a report detailing a list of 100 recipients of stimulus money, which they called ...
16 years ago
Anti-depressant costs Glaxo $1 billion in lawsuits
The popular anti-depressant Paxil has earned many billions for GlaxoSmithKline, and hundreds of lawsuits. The popular anti-depress ...
16 years ago