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Curbed Progress: The PA Senate is standing in the way of protected bike lane installations across the state.

By Randy LobassoUrging his colleagues in the state legislature to act swiftly on parking-protected bike lanes and pedestrian plaza legislation, Pennsylvania State Senator Larry Farnese of Philadelphia penned a dire warning June 19.“If we fail to act ... we risk the loss of several major bike lane projects funded for construction this year,” Farnese wrote

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Tick Tock: Pennsylvania is ground zero for Lyme disease, and one Drexel professor is pursuing a cure.

By Claire Marie PorterKerry Boland doesn’t remember getting a tick bite. It was 2002 and she was entering her first semester at Georgetown University when she began experiencing flu-like symptoms, which landed her in the emergency room.  A short time later, she started experiencing extreme food intolerances. She couldn’t eat gluten without hours of vomiting

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Stable Genius: Flourtown business turns damaged trees and discarded materials into high-end furniture

By Claire Marie PorterIt’s the imperfect trees that make a beautiful piece of furniture for John Duffy of Stable Tables. “I don’t really consider myself an artist or anything like that,” Duffy explains. “I’m more of a business person.”Stable Tables, he says, began after he bought a table from a carpenter in Maryland and had to

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The Second Shift: These talented black women have had extraordinary side gigs

By Constance Garcia-Barrio Devaluing black women’s work is a holdover from slavery time. It often cuts our employment opportunities, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank focused on economic issues. The view prevails that women of African ancestry should go on being “…de mule uh de world…” as the acid pen of

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