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...racism makes for a much scarier bogeyman. In his recent speech on race in in Philadelphia, Obama warned, “…many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow...
...When garbage trucks pick up the recycling, they weigh the container and record how much each family is recycling by weight. The more you recycle, the more RecycleBank points you earn, which can be redeemed for offers at merchants like CVS/pharmacy. It's that easy. Since RecycleBank launched in Philadelphia in 2006, its formula has led to unqualified success everywhere it has gone - and it now operates through much of the Northeast U.S. Recycling rates in one of the first Philadelphia neighborhoods that RecycleBank served rose from 7% to 90% in a matter of months and total waste sent...
...says that she wasn’t even listening attentively when the qualifiers for it were announced. Though this was Fallon’s first time competing in World Championship, he says he would like to do it again. Next year’s championship will be held in Philadelphia, and both hope to go. “[Competing] can be very taxing on your body. It can be very stressful,” Fallon says, “but in the end it’s all worth...
This April it's going to be hard finding that kind of November unity in the Philadelphia Democratic organization. Michael Nutter, the city's impressive new mayor, is backing Clinton, and a few white liberals are backing Obama, but the ward leaders must answer to their people. Local politics is still neighborhood politics...
There are thousands of my Grandpops in Philadelphia today--committee persons who will be out there on primary day. There may not be one endorsed candidate in the race, but they'll be getting their people out to vote. And the rest of the state will have its eyes on the wards of Philadelphia...