STATE SEN. Shirley Kitchen gets a big “thank you” from youngsters at Caring People Alliance in N. Phila., where she raised funds to construct an Early Learning Play Area.    Send article as PDF   

Yo! Here we go again with this imaginary tale from the internet about Lou Costello calling to buy a computer from Bud Abbott. ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks, I’m setting up an office in my den and I’m thinking about buying a computer. ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: No, the name’s […]

Republican State and City bodies were handed a blockbuster yesterday afternoon as a committee handed down a crucial decision stripping Philadelphia Committee Chairman Vito Canuso of his post, after hearing challenges from both the Republican City Committee and the State-sponsored Regular Republican Committee. The Credentials Committee included Richard Stewart, Mathew Brann and Carol Side, from […]

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Former Gov. Tom Ridge is getting involved in the US Senate race in Pennsylvania. Ridge, a Republican, endorsed GOP nominee Pat Toomey in State College. “Voters across Pennsylvania are rallying to Pat’s vision for creating jobs and bringing fiscal responsibility to Washington,” Ridge said in a statement. “I am endorsing Pat today because he is […]

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BY DENISE CLAY/ Seated on a couch in what is normally the waiting room at the law offices of Zarwin, Baum, DeVito, Kaplan, Schaer and Toddy, PC with her friends Mavis Pringle and Yvonne Newkirk, Charlene Fullard of West Philadelphia was having a libation and engaging in chit-chat. Some of the chit-chat focused on the […]

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BY JOE SHAHEELI/ The sudden action by Fresh Del Monte Products, Inc. to sever its contract with the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1291 and pull its incoming ships to a “below union wage” pier in Gloucester City hasn’t come as a surprise to the unions and terminal operators familiar with the operations of the Holt family. […]