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Celebrating the earth, Temple Ambler Earthfest
Temple University Ambler campus hosts Earthfest featuring environmental organizations like See Shepherd, public parks departments, FEMA and more.
Posted inCURRENT AFFAIRS POLITICS
Supporting Negrin for Philadelphia District Attorney
John Kromer, Philadelphia Housing Director under former Mayor Ed Rendell is out gathering signatures on petitions in support of Rich Negrin, City Managing Director under former Mayor Nutter, for Philadelphia…
Posted inCURRENT AFFAIRS PERSONAL GROWTH POVERTY
She helps people find work
Sandy Ellis-Johnson, an interviewer at the Pa Career Link in Germantown (Philadelphia) office for helping people get jobs is the first staffer a person meets. According to Ellis-Johnson, employees laid…
Posted inCURRENT AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT EVENTS
Picnic and paddle to stop the oil trains
Under the watchful eyes of a score of officers from the Philadelphia Police foot and marine patrols, the PA Fish and Game Commission and the US Coast Guard, serious but…
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Striking Verizon workers picket
Unionized Verizon telephone company workers (Communication Workers of America - CWA) conducting an informational picket outside the Chestnut Hill Philadelphia central station, which houses thirty to forty thousand landline connections,…
Posted inBUILDINGS BUSINESS CHESTNUT HILL
“Spite” fence goes up
A tall chain-link fence recently appeared dividing the narrow walkway between two buildings on Germantown Avenue in the posh Chestnut Hill shopping district in northwest Philadelphia. And now, next to…
Posted inCURRENT AFFAIRS EDUCATION POLITICS
Poll worker interviews candidates and poll workers
Your correspondent interviewed candidates and poll workers at the Grace Epiphany Church polling site in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, home to 3 voting divisions. Video playlist here. ----------------…
Posted inCURRENT AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
Scot reflects on “No” vote on independence
Andrew, a Scotsman who has been out of the country for the past few years, says he probably would have voted in favor of independence from Great Britain in the…
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Disappeared in Ecuador – families protest
Family members chanted outside the Presidential Palace in Quito, Ecuador calling on the government and President Rafael Correa to take action in locating loved ones who have been disappeared. (Kidnappers…
Posted inCURRENT AFFAIRS ELDERLY ENTERTAINMENT
87years old, plays her keyboard on street for donations
Eighty-seven year old Pat Sellers, laid off from the Philadelphia Cricket Club three years ago, has started doing what she has seen young people doing to try to make ends…