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  • More than 400k Philly-area residents to travel for Memorial Day

    More than 400,000 Philadelphia-area residents are expected to travel this weekend, and even those headed to the Jersey Shore should encounter roads that are ready for them. AAA Mid-Atlantic estimates that 404,000 people in the Philadelphia region will travel for Memorial Day weekend, a decrease of just less than 1 percent from last year. About 22 percent of those travelers will head to the ...

  • Drafts of Sixers Past The ones that got away

    0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:25 AM, 05/23/2013 yeah we get it, the Sixers are completely incompetent & have been for quite some time. Maybe it's time for another Bynum ...

  • Council Wants To Give A Break To Homeowners Appealing Tax Assessments

    Despite the objections of the mayor, City Council committee has given initial approval to a bill that staves off next year’s property tax bill for those who are still in the process of appealing the new assessment. The tax bills resulting from the citywide reassessment are due next February, but some of the expected appeals may not have been resolved by that point. Councilman Mark ...

  • Local Unions Protest Outside Nutter’s Conference Of Mayors

    Mayor Nutter today begins a two-day summit with more than 30 mayors from across the country, as he winds down his one-year stint as the President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Local union members greeted them yesterday as they began to trickle in, and were to be out there again this morning to protest. The President of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO, Pat Eiding scoped out any mayors who happened ...

  • Non-Conventional Housing Forum At Academy Of Natural Sciences

    The Academy of Natural Sciences is hosting a free forum tonight at 6pm on different kinds of non-conventional housing and how it can help in challenged communities, like inner ...


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Pushing Tin

We are told near the beginning of Pushing Tin that air traffic controllers take more lives into their hands in one shift than surgeons take in their entire careers. No wonder it has the highest rates of clinical depression and alcoholism of any profession. ...

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  • New special interest comes to PA liquor privatization party

    HARRISBURG - Inside Pennsylvania’s liquor privatization debate, everyone wants a taste. A new special interest is asking for a seat at the table after the state legislature’s actions threaten the finances of its members. The Liquor Store Real Estate Owners Association is the latest opponent to liquor ...

  • Philadelphia Daily News Molly Eichel column

    May 23--PHILLY'S OWN Kate Flannery has chosen her first post-"The Office" assignment. Flannery will star in "Love, Loss and What I Wore," the off-Broadway smash written by the dearly departed writer/director Nora Ephron and her sister Delia, for the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Although Flannery has played local clubs with her musical comedy group, the Lampshades, this ...

  • For Philadelphia bicyclist a cat is his co-pilot

    Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on ...

  • Body Found in Burned Out Apartment

    Firefighters on the scene of the Allentown, Pa. apartment blaze told NBC10 that they found a man's body on the top floor but that the body appeared to not be related to the ...

  • Police Missing Pa. students whereabouts unknown

    SKIPPACK, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania State Police say they still don’t know the whereabouts of a suburban Philadelphia college student who disappeared while returning home from the University of Rhode ...

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