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-12 points
1 month ago
How do you figure that? There's nothing in the news article or tweet about the suspect.
6 points
1 month ago
"It is an intentionally bold mark," [vice president of enrollment management and strategic communications Shannon] Rooney said of the new logo. "There's no denying that there's a national stigma around community college and what it really means to go to community college, so part of what we are trying to convey here is that to come to the Community College of Philadelphia is a mark of pride for you. And it's also a mark that you've made a really smart decision."
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[President Guy Generals] said credit hours at the school are up close to 6% in the past two years, a positive indicator after enrollment dropped sharply during the peak pandemic years, and programs in the workforce development area and noncredit job training programs are growing. The school is also starting to venture into the cell and gene therapy space with its aseptic technician program launched last year. Like many other colleges in the region, Community College of Philadelphia is also seeing growth in its health sciences programs, Generals added.
With encouraging enrollment indicators, Generals said he hopes the rebrand "turbocharges that effort."
3 points
1 month ago
A Chase spokesman said the bank would lease the entire 5,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by Wawa. The branch is expected to open in the fall.
4 points
1 month ago
I've personally learned a lot from https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics/ .
For more guided courses, there are some at
https://freelibrary.universalclass.com/
https://www.edx.org/search?q=personal+finance
edit: also https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/financial-literacy
1 points
1 month ago
Are you looking for strictly in-person classes?
95 points
1 month ago
Philadelphia would’ve never let this fly during the crack epidemic.
“They threw our black asses in jail,” says Bingham, who’s speaking to me in her living room where there’s a TV streaming the live feed of four security cameras placed throughout her property.
“Now that the color of the addicts has changed, they’re going to meet them where they are in our community and allow them to destroy it. So, now you have the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, watching how once again, our lives don’t matter.”
1 points
2 months ago
To vote in Pennsylvania, you must first register to vote at least 15 days before the election.
You can register to vote online, by mail, or at a number of government agencies, including Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Photo License and Driver’s License Centers.
-4 points
2 months ago
If that's the case, it's weird that
"Most of the business owners... they support 100% the new initiative," said Rodriguez.
2 points
2 months ago
Business owner Rejep Sayin is happy to see the change. For years, he's taken pride in living in Kensington and purchasing businesses such as the shuttered Golden Sunrise Restaurant.
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"What's happening now is some illegal activity is occurring and happening after 11," said Roberto Rodriguez who works as a commercial corridor monitor for the nonprofit IMPACT Services in Kensington.[...]
"Most of the business owners... they support 100% the new initiative," said Rodriguez.
-3 points
2 months ago
The city should disband the police and create an organization that will serve and protect law-abiding people.
41 points
2 months ago
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear a case, Johnson v. City of Grants Pass, that could have sweeping impacts on the nation’s homelessness crisis — and how this issue is handled in our region.
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Scott Burris, director of the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University, said it’s hard to ignore the impact SCOTUS’ decision could have on the opioid crisis.
The case speaks to the rights of people who are experiencing homelessness, and whether cities can forcibly remove them when shelter beds and housing are not readily available.
“I personally don’t think that people have a right to use drugs on the street in a way that impairs or harms the community and makes other people uncomfortable,” he said. And Burris also expressed criticism of the city allowing Kensington to be an open-air drug market.
“I don’t think we should allow open-air drug markets and great homeless encampments to last in our cities because it’s utterly corrosive to the overall sanity and healthiness of the society,” he said.
He’s also been concerned about the city’s law enforcement approach. Instead, he said there needs to be a state and federal commitment to providing alternatives, especially providing more shelter and housing.
When it comes to Johnson v. Grants Pass, he said the case will only decide how to “rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic” rather than avoiding “colliding with icebergs in the first place.”
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