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Job Corps education and training centers are accepting students

December 1, 2013

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program is accepting applications throughout the autumn and winter months. The program provides free education and training for eligible young people, ages 16 to 24, to help them start a career, earn a high school diploma or equivalent credential and find and keep a good job.

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Politically Uncorrected: The Elephant in the Room

December 1, 2013

It wasn’t a “big” story. In fact, the article published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last June received little follow-up and even less attention. That’s unfortunate – because it’s a story that explains the anxiety so many Americans express about both Obama’s Affordable Care Act and even “reasonable” gun controls.

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Motown, Philly, Back Again

November 22, 2013

During the early days of Motown Records, founder Berry Gordy had to do a lot of things himself. Among those things was promote the records of artists like Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye and others by going around the country to get their records…

 

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Philly’s Men CAN Cook!

November 22, 2013

While the Shops At Liberty Place is filled with great shoe stores and one of the few locations of The Body Shop outside of Philadelphia International Airport, it’s not usually a place where I have people meet me for lunch.

 

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Erie elects first Black councilman, Andre Horton

November 15, 2013

On Nov. 5, he won a very tight election beating Republican Ned Smith (a 32-year incumbent), and a write-in Democratic candidate, Lisa Austin, with 46 percent of the vote. Horton was told he had lost the election Tuesday night, but by Friday was declared the winner. 

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