Results tagged “roadclosings”

  • PennDot has announced a bunch of upcoming lane closures and traffic restrictions in the area; click through for the complete list.
  • We have incredible amounts of news today related to the Pennsylvania primary. First off, applications for absentee ballots have to be in no later than 5PM today. Clinton is announcing a "major endorsement" at noon today at the state Capitol in Harrisburg. Obama admitted to the Daily News and the Inquirer yesterday that he had mangled his remarks when he talked about people being bitter and clinging to their guns and religion. The Inquirer has one in an occasional series about Pennsylvanians debating who to vote for; this one focuses on the customers at Mike's lunch truck in South Philly. The Inquirer also has an entry in another series focusing on the key issues of the campaign; this one looks at the candidates' health plans. Last night at the Philadelphia Democratic Party dinner at the Sheet Metal Workers Union hall, the city's 69 ward leaders, divided over which candidate to support, heard back-to-back speeches by Obama and Clinton. There'll be a debate between the Democratic presidential candidates at the National Constitution Center tomorrow. Tickets are hard to get, and the debate will bring traffic restrictions to the area. Finally, the Inquirer points out that the really important question to Democrats at this point is not the issues, but which candidate can be a viable opponent.
  • A federal appeals court decision yesterday threw out Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence for killing Daniel Faulkner and ruled that Abu-Jamal must be sentenced to life in prison or get a chance with a new Philadelphia jury that would decide only whether he should get life or be sentenced to death again.
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