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September 12, 2011
I remember where I was at and what I was doing on the morning of September 11th, 2001. I was at work, drinking a cup of coffee and reading my email. Someone got a phone call around 9:00 to let us know that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center.
September 4, 2011
PGW today announced that it will decrease what residential customers pay for natural gas. The average residential heating customer will pay about 2.2 percent less per month for the next three months. The change reflects a decrease in the forecasted price of the gas purchased from suppliers.
September 4, 2011
Even though it was late August, it might have seemed as if Christmas had arrived early for the students of the Potter Thomnas School. The school buses rolled up to the Forman Mills store at Aramingo and Tioga Streets at about 9:30 in the morning, and unloaded about 250 children…
September 4, 2011
Comcast Corporation, the nation’s largest cable television provider, will soon begin a cut rate monthly program for Internet service aimed at low-income families with children. About 150,000 children in Philadelphia could be eligible for the program…
September 4, 2011
Even though the sky was dark and foreboding, the mood could not have been more upbeat and electric. Young children were following a bright red Nemo around, and as always, Nemo was as effervescent as ever, eager to give hugs and smiles to all.
August 28, 2011
Regrettably, one of the best education professionals ever to try and fix our public schools, Dr. Arlene Ackerman, will be remembered more for how she cashed out her contract for nearly a cool one million dollars, than for how she tried to reform the nation’s eighth largest school system.
August 28, 2011
It has been less than 120 days since the Philadelphia School Reform Commission gave Dr. Arlene Ackerman a vote of confidence on performance and rewarded her with an additional year on her contract. During this same period, Mayor Nutter advanced…
August 28, 2011
The Board of Directors of the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) announced that Claire Lomax, Esq. has been elected as its new Board Chairperson. Lomax becomes the first female chair in the museum’s 35-year history.
August 21, 2011
As the nation approaches the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the National Constitution Center is uniting with a coalition of leaders from the City of Philadelphia, the Religious Leaders Council of Greater Philadelphia, the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia, and other community groups…
August 21, 2011
City Council announced details for two more public hearings to be held for the purpose of receiving public testimony concerning Councilmanic redistricting. These will be held outside of Center City Philadelphia and are in addition to a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. in Council chambers.
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