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| Heavy wet snow plus leaves on trees, leaves millions without power |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/30/11 12:23 pm | updated: 10/30/11 12:23 pm |
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Close to 3 million households have been left without power after yesterday's surprise and unusual early snow. Most trees still have all their leaves, combined with the amount of snow, branches have come down all over the Northeast taking power lines with them.
In PA alone some 423,000 are dark and in NJ 617,000 lost power. Crews are working but it may take days. PECO's customer service message gives an estimate of Oct. 31 by 11 pm for it's customers.
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| Penn Doctor Regrets Fat Jokes |
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 by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/28/11 3:14 pm | updated: 10/28/11 3:14 pm |
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| Have you heard the one about the University of Pennsylvania orthopedic surgeon who does fat jokes about overweight patients? True story. Doctor John Kelly writes a humor column and threw some jokes in that got some hot water with Penn and obesity bias advocates. Dr. Kelly intended no harm when he quipped, "You should worry about performing surgery on the supersized if there is a comma in your patient's body weight." Or if a patient "wears a wristwatch on his finger," or "has more chins than... Read More |
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| Early Snow Statistics for Philadelphia |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/28/11 2:48 pm | updated: 10/28/11 2:48 pm |
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Winter is making and early appearance in Philadelphia, but it's not the first time. The earliest recorded snowfall in Philadelphia occurred on Oct 10th and 11th, 1979. 2.1 inches fell making it also the largest measured snowfall in October in Philadelphia.
Does this mean we are in for a snowy winter? Who knows, but if it feels like it's been getting worse recently, you're right.
4 of Philadelphia's top 11 snowfalls of all-time have occurred in the last few... Read More |
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| Philadelphia School District: $39 million in reductions needed |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/27/11 12:27 pm | updated: 10/27/11 12:27 pm |
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Philadelphia School District - which had earlier announced a $629 million budget gap - must make an additional $39 million in reductions.
Cutting professional development, English-language learner instruction, psychologists, instrumental music, athletics, educational technology, and bilingual counseling assistants would save about $17 million. The district still has to find $22 million more to cut.
Without further concessions from district unions, Chief... Read More |
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| Penn and Philadelphia Rank High in Green Power Use |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/26/11 10:50 am | updated: 10/26/11 10:50 am |
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| The US Environmental Protection Agency has released its Top 50 consumers of green power and Philadelphia is prominently on the list. The University of Pennsylvania claimed the number 1 spot among colleges across the country for consuming over 200 million kilowatt hours of green power, which is half of Penn's total power needs. The city of Philadelphia ranked 35th nationally for consuming 127.3 million kWh of green power, about 20 percent of the city government's power... Read More |
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| Talk of Early Snow from Philadelphia Forecasters |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/26/11 10:34 am | updated: 10/26/11 10:34 am |
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It is snowing in other parts of the country and local meteorologists have already started mentioning the four letter S word in Philadelphia forecasts. A half foot fell west of us in Colorado and two other systems are pushing winter weather from the north and are threatening New England and northeast PA. That's close enough for Philadelphia's TV weather folks to start warning us that snow MAY be coming soon.
The first snow flakes of the season may be spotted this weekend in... Read More |
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| Occupy Philadelphia: First 15 Arrests |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/24/11 11:39 am | updated: 10/24/11 11:39 am |
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Philadelphia police arrested 15 people associated with Occupy Philadelphia over the weekend after blocking Eighth Street near Race Street just outside Police Headquarters.
The sit-in began about 17 hours earlier as a protest march against police brutality nationwide.
They were the first arrests since the movement began in the first week of October. Occupy Philadelphia, part of a larger national protest, is a grassroots demonstration against Wall Street and corporate greed... Read More |
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| Haverford Ordinance Facing Court Challenge |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/24/11 11:36 am | updated: 10/24/11 11:36 am |
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Haverford township has people talking... an antidiscrimination ordinance is facing a court challenge.
The ordinance includes provisions for protections in housing, commercial property, employment, and public accommodations against discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
Resident Fred Teal filed a challenge alleging the township failed to provide proper public notice of changes to the ordinance between first and... Read More |
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| Obama Declares the End of the Iraq War |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/21/11 12:40 pm | updated: 10/21/11 12:40 pm |
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Today, President Barack Obama declared an end to the Iraq war and announced that all American troops would be withdrawn from the country by the end of the year. Obama declared the move a promise kept, a new day for a self-reliant Iraq and a focus on building up the economy at home.
"I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year," Obama said. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over."
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| Libya's Dictator Muammar Qaddafi is Dead |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/20/11 1:26 pm | updated: 10/20/11 2:36 pm |
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After Libyan fighters captured Sirte, Qaddafi's hometown, early Thursday, two months after the fall of Tripoli, the former dictator Muammar Qaddafi has been killed by soldiers.
"We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Qaddafi has been killed," Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed.
The news has brought celebrations throughout the country that the dictator ruled since 1969 when he seized power in a military coup. This begins the next stage of... Read More |
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