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Federal Judge Orders Penn to Turn Over List of Jewish Employees

A federal judge has ordered the University of Pennsylvania to give federal investigators information about Jewish faculty and staff during a discrimination investigation tied to antisemitism complaints reported on...

Philadelphia May Add Delivery Tax to Fix Growing Pothole Problem

Philadelphia officials are considering a plan that would connect road repairs to the growing volume of package deliveries across the city. Mayor Cherelle Parker proposed the idea in March...

A flea for all

Last week, Ivanka Trump (Donald’s daughter, and wife of the Piazza at Schmidt’s now-owner Jared Kushner) and The Roots’ Questlove were there, as were...

Prepare now for a rough hurricane season

Ready for the next big storm?Did you just shrug?The tough thing about persuading people to prepare for the kind of weather that will flood basements, knock...

River Wards events for the week of June 12

Penn Treaty Park eventsThe Friends of Penn Treaty Park invite you to Movie In The Park night tonight at 7 p.m., to see “Thunderstruck.” This...

A bid to buy the blight

Shaukat Ali, 71, with his two granddaughters, lives next door to landlord Robert Coyle’s former office, which has been decaying blight for years. SAM...

First Friday on Frankford

A crowd of people at 3rd Ward on First Friday stand before artist Emily Erb’s “Garden of Earthly Delights.” SAM NEWHOUSE / STAR PHOTOFrankford Avenue...

Public school staffs are slashed

In what could prove to be the largest jobs cut in almost 40 years, more than 3,700 school employees will be laid off July...
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