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By Randy Lobasso

Housing Ordinance Barring Temple Students From Specific Areas Still Drawing Ire From Lawyers, Landlords

The law in question is the 2004 “Yorktown Special District Controls” ordinance, written specifically for the North Central section of the city—Cecil B. Moore to the north, Oxford to the south, 11th to the east and 13th to the west. The law holds, after years of tensions between students and neighbors, that Temple kids simply aren’t allowed to live in certain areas of North Central. Stouffer, 63, says that’s unconstitutional, discriminatory and invalid.

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Posted Feb. 22, 2012 | Comments: 6
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By Tara Murtha

Proposed Cuts to PA's Higher-Education Budget Strike a Chord

Last week, Corbett proposed cutting funding to West Chester University and Pennsylvania’s other 13 state colleges by $330 million, almost 20 percent. Meanwhile, funding to state-related universities such as Temple University—the least expensive option in Philly—will be cut by 30 percent. Support for community colleges will be cut by 4 percent.

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Posted Feb. 15, 2012 | Comments: 1

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By Michael Alan Goldberg

Parents of Slain Son Spread Anti-Violence Message to City’s Youth—And It Seems to Be Working

There are big plans for the future: a group home for boys, a college scholarship at Roxborough High in Shawnee's name, a citywide mentoring program, and a basketball league. But even in its beginning stages, S4S has already shown itself to be a promising tool in bringing youth together to help stem the city’s violence—without the preachy, off-putting approach the city often employs to little effect.

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Posted Feb. 13, 2012 | Comments: 1
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By Aaron Kase

The City Controller, a Councilman and the PPA All Use the Same Consultant. Is It a Conflict?

Incest has long been taboo among human societies for its propensity to produce deformed offspring. Among political circles in Philadelphia, however, incest is a cherished, closely guarded tradition, which might go a long way toward explaining our deformed government. Like our own little Gabriel García Márquez novel, everyone’s in bed together, while our mess of a city is left to be carried away by ants.

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Posted Feb. 7, 2012 | Comments: 6

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Lower Merion, Temple Students Spying on Themselves Being Dumb
By Tara Murtha

When not suing the school district for allegedly spying on them via cameras installed in school-issued laptops, Lower Merion High School students are filming themselves getting wasted. As CBS 3 reported, it’s called “getting shmacked,” yo! “The video on YouTube is drawings strong reactions from the D.A., school leaders and parents,” reports anchor Chris May. “And adding [...]

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Posted Feb. 22, 2012

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Philly Health Commissioner Lays Out Gov. Corbett’s Cuts by the Numbers
By Randy LoBasso

And he had one (paraphrased) message: We’re fucked.

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Posted Feb. 22, 2012