BYÂ MARIA MERLINO/Â Andrew Stober bikes to work every day to Center City from his South Philly home. He uses a great value folding bike with premium features click here to see. Stober, chief of staff for the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities, joins tens of thousands of people using the pedals over the accelerator to […]
BY MARIA MERLINO/ Third Dist. Police Capt. Mike Ryan knows the importance of communicating with residents. That’s why Ryan hosted a 3rd Dist. Public Safety Conference at the Holiday Inn, 10th & Packer Avenue. “The response time for calls may not be as fast as you like, but we are addressing it,†Ryan told the packed […]
The exodus of highly qualified surgeons from Pennsylvania has receded over the last decade following the huge disparity in the insurance rates they had to pay concerning much-lower rates in neighboring states. But the number of medical graduates from the city’s vaunted schools and teaching hospitals staying in this city continue to decline. The combination […]
Sheriff Jewell Williams is hosting a series of “How To†seminars at his office in the coming months for those looking to bid at Sheriff Sales. The seminars will be held in the Sheriff’s offices at Land Title Building, 100 S. Broad Street, 5th floor, Sept. 18, Oct.; 8, Nov. 13 and Dec. 11, 2012. […]
City Controller Alan Butkovitz has found the student TransPass program was at risk for theft and abuse, resulting in the potential loss of millions annually. The School District’s $33 million TransPass program provides free transportation to Philadelphia public and non-public students by issuing weekly TransPasses to eligible students. School personnel are required to account for […]
A series of apparent failures in the probation and parole system, which contributed to the death of a Philadelphia police officer, has prompted two Northeast Philadelphia legislators to call for coordinated hearings on what went wrong. Yesterday State Sen. Mike Stack called for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into the events preceding the murder of […]
BY RUTH R. RUSSELL/Â Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille stressed the accomplishments of judges throughout the Commonwealth in an opening speech at the Conference of Trial Judges in Hershey. He told the overflow crowd he was pleased with the additional money provided for the courts, although it is still a small percentage of the state budget. […]
BY TONY WEST/ Last week the FBI charged one of the pioneers of the charter-school movement, June Hairston Brown, and four colleagues with defrauding $6.5 million from three Philadelphia schools she had founded: Agora Cyber Charter School, Planet Abacus Charter School and Laboratory Charter School of Communication & Language – all taxpayers’ money. In April, the […]
The conference room at the Pennsylvania Prison Society’s headquarters was packed with clients, family members, special guests, and staff all celebrating the transition of Philly ReNew clients who were moving on to the second phase of its unique Philadelphia reentry program. Those at the ceremony heard stories of past traumas and how Philly ReNew helped […]
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