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By Randy LoBasso

How Wind Energy Is Sucking the Life Out of Our Bat Population

Wind farms seem to be messing with nature: One unintended consequence of the installation of wind turbines has been a massive increase in bat deaths. Bats seem to be drawn to them, and scientists can’t figure out why. But they do know that the rapid decline in our bat population—which is crucial to general insect control—is really bad news.

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Posted May. 23, 2012 | Comments: 5
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NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY

By Elliott Sharp

Why Local Artists Are Teaming Up to Save Our Dying Bat Population

Bats are the primary predators of nighttime insects, including various kinds of pests that like to ruin crops. They save Pennsylvania farmers about $74 per acre—or about $277.9 million per year. Which means fewer harmful pesticides are used in the foods we eat. But this is all changing for the worse. Large swaths of our bat population are being wiped out by White Nose Syndrome (WNS), a fungus that grows on the faces and wings of bats.

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Posted May. 23, 2012 | Comments: 3
RELATED: How Wind Energy Is Sucking the Life Out of Our Bat Population

NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY

By Matt Prigge

Philadelphia Welcomes the First International Free Speech Film Festival

In the wake of recent revolutions in the Middle East and Africa—and of international civil-rights debates ranging from Iran to America’s own cities—putting out a global call for films about those sorts of topics should be a powerful tool for spotlighting both the issues and the documentary storytellers working hard to present them.

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Posted May. 16, 2012 | Comments: 0

NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY

By Tara Murtha

Angry-Man Author Buzz Bissinger Turns Himself Inside Out for Heartwrenching Memoir

Ask anyone who knows him personally, and they’ll tell you that when you peel away the layers of his swashbuckling persona, push past the prickly machismo that makes him strut around his quaint little neighborhood of Chestnut Hill sporting black leather pants, the real Buzz Bissinger is a tender, sensitive soul.

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Posted May. 9, 2012 | Comments: 6

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Pennsylvania Rep. Introduces Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood
By Randy LoBasso

Shocked? Don't be.

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Posted May. 23, 2012

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Firefighters’ Union Calls on Commissioner Lloyd Ayers to Resign
By Randy LoBasso

“Philadelphia’s rank and file firefighters previously issued a vote of ‘No confidence’ for Commissioner Ayers and his deputies,” said Gault. “Now, their incompetence and dereliction of duty have claimed the lives of two of our finest and destroyed the quality-of-life of another.”

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Posted May. 23, 2012