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PHILADELPHIA'S high school seniors will start classes in an educational landscape transformed from the one they entered in kindergarten 13 years ago.

Gerald K. McOscar discovers that his bedroom dresser holds his past

THE ASSOCIATED Press recently reported that the Vatican had used lasers for the first time to restore the first known icons of the apostles Peter and Paul in the catacombs beneath Rome.

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Letters: Phillies old-timer Moyer is still going places - 2:17am: THANKS TO Bill Conlin for a great article about the Phillies' Jamie Moyer. His 260-plus wins and 4,000 innings pitched speak for themselves, as does the quality of his character.
Letters: Senior citizens are getting jobbed - 2:17am: I'M FED UP. Harrisburg is still porking away, the New Black Panther Party is about to erupt, the president is sitting on his thumbs, the Weathermen are resurfacing, soldiers still dying, health-care providers striking back, no Social Security increases for two years (at least), electric-gas-water-taxes-transportation all beckoning for more money, and now the federal government wants to stop tax deductions on our mortgage interest.
Michael Smerconish: Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, the two New Black Panthers at the Philadelphia polling place, were clowns - but dangerous ones - 2:17am: I'M THINKING that the actions of the New Black Panthers on Election Day in 2008 were more about TV than turnout.
Letters: Lindsay Lohan vs. a soldier who died for his country - 2:17am: I AGREE with Laurence Barberra about the under-coverage of the soldier's death. (My son is about to be deployed to Afghanistan.)
Garbage in, garbage out on trash report - 07/14/2010: THE CITY HAS nearly 500 Big Belly solar trash compactors on the streets, including one at the Municipal Services Building, which houses the offices of Controller Alan Butkovitz. We suggest he use that unit to recycle the report he just released on the compactors, which is about as useful as the refuse being tossed into the receptacles.

Philadelphia's festivals & events deliver real value to the region - 07/14/2010: By MERYL LEVITZ
Letters: The real pit-bull story in Philadelphia - 07/14/2010
Letters: Delaware River tugboat operator in fatal duck-boat accident had the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment - 07/14/2010
Duke, the Dog with Two Lives - 07/14/2010: By PATTY-PAT KOZLOWSKI
Bad job on jobs - 07/13/2010
Navigating the river accident - 07/13/2010
Live Aid had great sound and an even better conscience - 07/13/2010: By LARRY ATKINS
Letters: Kudos to Philadelphia Daily News columnist Christine Flowers on her column about the Justice Department and the New Black Panthers - 07/13/2010
Letters: President Obama has made the right calls on BP oil spill, under the circumstances - 07/13/2010
Philadelphia should treat July Fourth better - 07/13/2010: By DOM GIORDANO
Letters: In Philadelphia, LeBron James is a Nowhere Man - 07/13/2010

Thinking big in Philadelphia

Special Section: Entrepreneurs around the Greater Philadelphia region are finding their moment, and creating the silver lining in a turbulent economy.

City Howl Help Desk tries to fix your problems

City Howl Help Desk: Trapped by a tree in Philadelphia
City Howl Help Desk: We want your input
City Howl Help Desk: Philadelphia citizen seeks a trash can for his block in Point Breeze neighborhood

It's Our Money: If you were looking for more info about the company Tom Corbett was talking about when he made those remarks about unemployment... - 4:26pm

A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO CITY CONTRACTS

"It's Our Money" (www.ourmoneyphilly.com) is a joint project of the Daily News and WHYY, funded by the William Penn Foundation, that looks at how city government spends our tax dollars. In order to demystify the process for citizens, we examined the 2004 contract details and consulted experts - like former city labor chief Thomas Paine Cronin - to help understand some of the key areas of pay and benefits. (PDF Format)

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