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September 8: Relatively unglamorous ghosts | Amazing, dangerous, and frightening | Amazon HQ2

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A view of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway from the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel. (Katie Colaneri/WHYY, file)
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Celebrating a century of Philly’s iconic Parkway — and looking down the road

Fourteen months of commemorative events along the Ben Franklin Parkway are underway to mark the thoroughfare’s 100th anniversary. ...

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Art is compromising: Commission OKs city’s plan to replace, but reuse, Chestnut Street’s stained-glass bus shelters

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Atlantic City seeks ‘microgrid’ to reduce impact of citywide power outages

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The company that had planned to open a dispensary for medical marijuana in Mt. Airy will look for another site after a huge outpouring of ...

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Lease of Society Hill’s Acme extended, concluding heated community battle

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Harvey-level damage probably won’t happen in Philadelphia, but intense flooding already does

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