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“Accurate information and meaningful opportunities to participate.”
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11/12/26
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I just read Sam Beckett’s article called “Your Move or Mine? The Mystery of Sidewalk Courtesy,” and I was charmed to find it wasn’t simply a complaint or a prescription for better behavior.
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11/12/26
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On Nov. 18, the Philadelphia City Council Environment Committee will vote on a contract to spend up to seven more years incinerating Philadelphia trash at the Reworld plant in Chester
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11/12/26
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It was not only a sweep at the top of the ticket, but also deep, deep, deep into the weeds to governmental positions up and down the ballot.
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11/12/26
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The Chestnut Hill Local article, “Pa. issues ‘do not eat’ advisory, cancels Wissahickon trout stocking,” highlights a disturbing reality: Pennsylvania’s waterways are becoming too contaminated to safely eat their fish.
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10/29/26
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AI data centers can impose serious environmental and quality-of-life costs on the communities where they are built.
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10/29/26
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With a craven desire for more taxpayers’ money, the Pennsylvania Senate passed Senate Bill 509, arming municipal police with radar guns. Radar is 100% for the money and 0% for safety.
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10/29/26
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SEPTA’s new Accelerate vision offers much to welcome.
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10/22/26
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American biologist, ecologist and entomologist E.O. Wilson said, “The human species is an environmental hazard.”
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10/22/26
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Thank you for the article about Laurada Byers’ memoir. I still remember Russell, hilarious and warm and the life of the party!
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10/22/26
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AI data centers can impose serious environmental and quality-of-life costs on the communities where they are built.
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10/22/26
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Len Lear hit it out of the ballpark with the Jamie Polson story. Polson, a local musician, wrote a vulnerable song about suicide called “I’m Glad You’re Here.”
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10/15/26
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Three of Chestnut Hill’s Registered Community Organizations have worked together to create a new model for the Philadelphia Zoning Code’s advisory development review process in Chestnut Hill.
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10/8/26
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I want to send you my heartfelt thanks for the amazing article you wrote about Ted in the Chestnut Hill Local.
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10/8/26
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Chestnut Hill College recently hosted two memorable days of events celebrating the inauguration of Dr. Brian McCloskey as the college’s eighth president.
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10/1/26
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The quandary that has burst unexpectedly out into public view is the next significant, bold step up and forward for our very important natural history institution.
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9/24/26
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I first met Peter Yeomans in 2003 when he led us to Bududa, Uganda, for a work camp to start a vocation school for children orphaned by AIDS.
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9/24/26
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On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, my neighbor burst into my kitchen and shouted, “Turn on the television!” I did, and we watched in shock as the horror unfolded on the screen before us.
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9/10/26
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On the sunny, clear morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was sitting with my 2-year-old in the sandbox at the Water Tower when my friend Audrey joined me with her 2-year-old and said that something strange had happened.
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9/10/26
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On Aug. 18, 2026, Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order that he described as creating the “strictest data center guardrails in the country.” But Pennsylvanians should ask an obvious question: Why now?
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9/3/26
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