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Nutter Assembles Task Force to Regulate Outdoor Feeding Ban

Around Philly

Since it was announced last month, Mayor Nutter’s ban on outdoor feeding of the homeless has garnered some stiff opposition from community volunteers who claim that the measure is a thinly veiled attempt to keep feeding lines out of sight for the openi... »

Green City Clean Waters: Philadelphia is the #1 Leader in H2O (and the EPA said so.)

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This past Tuesday, April 10th, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Mayor Michael Nutter & city officials signed an official agreement at the Fairmount Water Works that recognized Philadelphia's Green City Clean Waters Plan as an innovative approach to stor... »

Walnut Hill: Police Headquarters May Give New Life to Vacant Building

Murl

As the elevated subway car rolls into the nearby station, the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. building sits perfectly silent, serving as a nod to Walnut Hill’s storied past. The sprawling 15-acre site has been mostly dormant since the Philadelphia-... »

Developer Wants to Transform Divine Lorraine into Hybrid Campus

Around Philly

In February, Mayor Nutter announced that the he wanted to restore everyone’s favorite dilapidated behemoth, the Divine Lorraine Hotel. This week, we’ve gotten our first glimpse at a possible future for the 100-year-old building. Eric Blumenfeld, a loca... »

About That Soda Tax…

Around Philly

For a while, Philadelphia’s would-be soda tax was like a pesky fly that we just couldn’t get rid of no matter how many times we swatted it. To much relief though, the Mayor seems to have kept his hands off our precious carbonated beverages, at least fo... »

Quack, Quack

PHL Metropolis

It looks like a tax hike.  It walks and talks like a tax hike.  It has been seen associating with other tax hikes.  But, it is not a tax hike.  It is a mechanism for "capturing" the rise in real... »

Adopt or accept the waterfront plan, what's the difference?

Plan Philly

March 3, 2012 By Kellie Patrick GatesFor PlanPhilly As of Saturday morning, top city planners still had not decided whether to recommend that the planning commission “adopt” the entire long-range plan for the Central Delaware Waterfront or “acc »

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Lineup For Jay-Z Made In America Music Festival Released

CBS3.com

For all of the music fans who anxiously waited for which artists would perform at the Made in America Festival Labor Day weekend, the moment has finally arrived. »

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