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1/19/2012 11:53:12 AM
OK, I'm not crazy about the headline, because we should all know by now that community currency is not "funny money." But CNN was here this week to look at our Equal Dollars market, which helps Philadelphia families put food on the table, and Equal Dollars is features in ...
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1/16/2012 10:35:29 AM
Mary Bevlock, an artist at the studio at Lower Merion Vocational Training Center, is one of RHD's featured artists who will have their work shown at the Sanford Smith Outsider Art Fair in New York Jan. 27. She is a hard working artist who works diligently with watercolors and ...
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1/14/2012 7:49:17 AM
At RHD, we celebrate Martin Luther King Day with a day on, not a day off -- our employees are part of the MLK Day of Service, and we try to work to help make our community a better place.We'll have arts and crafts and storybook hour for dozens ...
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1/12/2012 3:31:29 PM
I am buying Girl Scout cookies. I am even buying the ones I don't like. I am buying boxes and boxes; if you're selling Girl Scout cookies, swing by RHD.In California, a young girl is organizing a boycott of girl scout cookies, because the Girl Scouts included a ...
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1/4/2012 3:44:57 PM
So all of America has weighed in and decided that "Work It," a show in which two men decide to dress as women to find a job, is ... how shall I say this ... awful. First, I liked this show much better when it was called "Bosom Buddies" ...
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12/28/2011 2:49:20 PM
I watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” over the holidays, as I do every year. A colleague of mine was saying the other day that he usually gets teary about 55 seconds in, when Janie sends up her prayer for her father, and said he’s never made it past Mr. Gower’s ...
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12/20/2011 4:14:20 PM
One of the ways you know the Occupy movement has had an impact is that people are now talking about income inequality. Of course, some people out there are coming out in favor of it, but still ...Rick Santorum came out in favor of income inequality in a speech ...
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12/14/2011 10:57:58 AM
Today's edition of: "Wait, what?" is brought to you by Forbes, and a gentleman named Gene Marks, who thought it would be a good idea to write an article titled: "If I were a poor, black kid." I am not making that up. Presumably sentient human beings looked at this, ...
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12/13/2011 3:27:13 PM
The editorial board of One Step Away, Philadelphia's street newspaper, met Tuesday morning and discussed HB 934, Pennsylvania's proposed Voter ID law. The editorial board, made up largely of people currently or formerly experiencing homelessness, issued this editorial:So the state of Pennsylvania, while arguing that they have to cut ...
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12/12/2011 11:27:49 AM
Several months ago, we met with some homelessness providers from Detroit. They took a particular interest in One Step Away, Philadelphia's street newspaper that we publish. One Step Away editor Kevin Roberts and lead writer Erik Younge (who at the time was a resident of one of our homeless shelters, ...