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October 29, 2011
The Pennsylvania State Senate today took a significant step towards expanding educational options to low-income children and kids in failing schools, passing legislation that would create a new voucher program and increase funding for the state’s existing scholarship tax credit program.
October 29, 2011
The inaugural F3 event will support Autism Speaks – the Philadelphia Affiliate of the National Autism Association, Monday, November 7, 7:30 PM and continue through the duration of the Monday night showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears.
October 29, 2011
So, you’ve heard about blogging, but have no idea what it is or where to start. Facebook and Twitter? Yeah, heard about that, too. You even have gone over to YouTube to spy some videos and wondered if you could do that, too.
October 29, 2011
Local filmmaker Rel Dowdell’s “Changing the Game” is one of the featured stories to be shown at this weekend’s 10th Hollywood Black Film Festival in Beverly Hills.
October 23, 2011
Mayor Michael A. Nutter announced this week that Everett Gillison, formerly Deputy Mayor for Public Safety will be his new Chief of Staff. Suzanne Biemiller, who served as Interim Chief of Staff, will assume the position of First Deputy Chief of Staff.
October 23, 2011
With the School District of Philadelphia preparing to unveil its plans to close fiumerous schools. The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative released a new report, Closing Public Schools in Philadelphia…
October 14, 2011
Philadelphia prosecutors must pursue a second death-penalty sentence for convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal or accept a life sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the racially charged case.
October 14, 2011
Mayor Michael A. Nutter has appointed Lorene Cary, a respected novelist, educator and founder of Art Sanctuary, a community arts organization that showcases African American art, to the School Reform Commission, [SRC].
October 14, 2011
Pennsylvania’s distressed capital city filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, citing “imminent jeopardy” from lawsuits related to a debt-saddled municipal incinerator and setting up a power struggle between the mayor and City Council.
October 14, 2011
In the 20 years that I’ve been a reporter, I’ve written probably a lot of obituaries. And with most of them, after I’ve written all of the standard information, I usually ask the question of the family of the deceased: “If there were anything that you would want people to know about your loved one, what would that be?”
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June 17, 2022
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