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Alt-right flyers posted throughout three Pennsylvania college campuses

More college campuses in Pennsylvania recently got a visit from a group identified as a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Pove ...

8 years ago

 The Pennsylvania Economy League ranked municipalities according to their tax base (high is good) and tax burden (low is good), then combined scores and used the resulting list to divide them into quintiles. Quintile 1 indicates a larger tax base and lower tax burden per household; 5 indicates the least tax base and most tax burden per household. (Source: Pennsylvania Economy League)
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Municipal distress getting worse in Pennsylvania, new data show

The Pennsylvania Economy League released a report on Tuesday showing predictions in its last study have borne out. That’s no ...

8 years ago

The Norris Homes public housing project will be memorialized in a mural by Jennie Shanker. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Before razing North Philly apartments, telling its stories and history

In a few years, the Norris Apartments, a public housing project in North Philadelphia will be ...

10 years ago

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Germantown Avenue then and now

Germantown Avenue, stretching from North Philadelphia through Chestnut Hill, is one of the oldest streets in the country. Often referred ...

10 years ago

 Workers keep a careful watch on the open hearth furnaces at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant. (Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
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Community

Bethlehem then and now, from steel town to arts community

On a recent summer evening, hundreds of people - lawn chairs and blankets in tow flocked to SteelStacks, a premiere arts campus at the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation plant

11 years ago

 Omar Gray was a street-cleaning mainstay for the Germantown Special Services District until its funding dried up. He's hoping to return once the GSSD offers a broom. (Aaron Moselle/for NewsWorks)
Community

Germantown’s Omar Gray just wants to get back to cleaning streets and sidewalks

For the better part of a decade, Omar Gray tirelessly cleaned the area's streets, cracks and crevices as an employee with the Germantown Special Services District.

13 years ago

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