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By the end of the 2012-2013 school year, the School District of Philadelphia will be 37 schools lighter. That’s because 37 district schools will be closing this year. Superintendent William Hite announced the closings during a news conference on Thursday. 

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The Brothers Network is producing a multidisciplinary festival inspired by the life of Henry “Box” Brown, an enslaved African who shipped himself to Philadelphia in a wooden box to gain his freedom in 1849. The wooden box will serve as an artistic metaphor to explore…

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If the orange bathrobe hanging on the wall of Philadelphia’s Hard Rock Café were anywhere else, you’d probably not pay it a whole lot of mind…If you didn’t throw it away that is. It’s got a few holes in it. It looks like something that Hugh Hefner might slum around in. It’s seen better days…

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To a governor who wields privatization like a boy with a hammer, I bet Pennsylvania’s lottery program looks like a diamond-point beauty of a nail. And it should – our Lottery Fund’s profit margins would drop the jaw of just about any private investor.

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Philadelphia has announced the Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I) mobile app, a new civic engagement tool that is part of the existing Philly311 app. Now residents can both report issues and access L&I property records such as permits, licenses, violations, and appeals on their smartphones.

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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced recently the re-election of Congressman Bob Brady as Ranking Member (Democratic Chair) of the Committee on House Administration (CHA) in the 113th Congress. Brady was nominated by Leader Pelosi and elected unanimously by the House Democratic Caucus.

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On Friday, November 30, at The Pavilion at the Community College of Philadelphia, Art Sanctuary founder Lorene Cary formally passed the baton of leadership to new Executive Director, Valerie V. Gay.

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Philadelphia has one of the highest STD rates in the nation. 25 percent of all new HIV infections in the city are among youth age 13 to 24. A new documentary, “GenerationNext: Uncovered”, produced by iChoose2Live in partnership with Take Control Philly, examines…

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The Philly Winter Urban Book Festival is here for another celebration of books, authors, and publishers. Raveena Media Group’s Literacy Moments Magazine and the Good L.U.C.K. Foundation – Good Readers youth program sponsors of the festival hopes readers attending will come out…

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YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School announced this week it will compete later this month with charities nationwide for a donation ranging from $125,000 to $1,000,000 through the American Giving Awards program presented by Chase Bank.

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