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Creditors Get Higher Bid for Bankrupt Philadelphia Papers
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | about 1 month ago
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Tierney, chief executive of the bankrupt Philadelphia newspapers, on Tuesday raised its bid to keep control of the papers to at least $86.5 million, from $66.5 million. Mr. Tierney and his backers, who are Philadelphia-area investors, want to prevent...
Tags: Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, locals group, philadelphia papers
New math program has fans, detractors
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Several Philadelphia area schools are loyal to a new elementary math program that critics says is weak on basic facts, educators say. Everyday Mathematics was developed 20 years ago at the University of Chicago and is popular at public and private schools...
Tags: Philadelphia Inquirer
Discrimination found at Pa. swim club
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility A state panel has found probable cause of racial discrimination at a suburban Philadelphia swim club that asked a day camp group of mostly black and Hispanic children not to return, a ruling the club's lawyer blamed late Tuesday on the "media firestorm"...
Tags: swim club, racial discrimination, Northeast Philadelphia, Philadelphia Inquirer, hispanic children, suburban philadelphia, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Inquirer: Phila. Orchestra needs $15 million
Lyman :: WY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Inquirer Music Critic Faced with a dire financial crisis, the leadership of the Philadelphia Orchestra plans to pass the hat among fellow board members for an emergency bridge fund to help carry it through the next two seasons.
Rendell optimistic of accord on state budget
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility After meeting with legislative leaders in a closed-door session last night, Gov. Ed Rendell made an abrupt turnaround and sounded much more optimistic about reaching an agreement on the state budget. "We are not there yet, but we have made progress toward...
Tags: Ed Rendell, Senate Republican, Rendell Reverses, Mr. Rendell, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, month budget, budget impasse, Harrisburg
Judge faults newspapers, creditors in ad dispute
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Local investors hoping to win Philadelphia Newspapers at a bankruptcy auction should pay for the newspapers' "Keep It Local!" publicity campaign, a judge suggested Wednesday. At the same time, he called complaints about the ads from rival creditors "overheated,"...
Tags: Philadelphia Newspapers, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer
Politician will have to adjust to jail
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility A Philadelphia politician faces rough treatment by staff and other prisoners when reports to serve a federal prison sentence, a prison consultant said...Fumo faces harassment by inmates and staff who want him to know he is no longer a power broker, Jeff...
Tags: Sen. Vincent Fumo, Senate, Fumo Heading, federal prisoners, Philadelphia Inquirer
3 teens guilty of causing fatal asthma
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Three Philadelphia teenagers have been convicted of killing a man who died of an asthma attack after being pummeled in a subway concourse while going to work. Jurors found Nashir Fisher, 17, and Ameer Best, 18, guilty of third-degree murder and conspiracy...
Philly newspapers hope $35M will end bankruptcy
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Philadelphia Newspapers hopes to use $35 million in new capital to settle nearly $400 million in debts and emerge from bankruptcy. A lawyer for the company says an opposing creditors' plan would leave the papers saddled with up to $85 million in debt.
Tags: Philadelphia Newspapers LLC, Philadelphia Daily News, newspapers hopes, Philadelphia Inquirer
Specter Faces a Trial in Democratic Primary
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility When local Democrats gathered at the Western-themed Dodge City Restaurant here in late July, Marilyn Levin asked Sen. Arlen Specter if he would campaign with her as she runs for prothonotary, a county court post...The senator's snap decision to back a...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Joe Sestak, Mr. Sestak, Arlen Specter, Philadelphia Inquirer, democrat primary
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