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February 7, 2008

Mayor Nutter has cut taxpayer-funded nonprofit Philadelphia Safe and Sound's funding by $21 million, and City Council's majority leader said she would call today for hearings to look into how Safe and Sound conducts its business. The funding cuts will result in the closing of ten school-based community centers; the termination of a parent-truancy program; and the elimination of many after-school programs. As the head of one after-school program put it, "It's a fiasco."......

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August 8, 2006

On Wednesday, the art and architecture committee of the city's Art Commission voted on whether or not a bronze statue of Stallone as Rocky (donated by the actor during the release of Rocky III) would be moved to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and ended up returning a split decision. The application has been withdrawn, but will be brought before the committee again in a new form - and possibly with a......

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