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Local number 413 Protesting Mara’s treatment of workers [BREAKING]

Nov 29

Local number 413 Protesting Mara’s treatment of workers [BREAKING]

A group of workers are protesting the labor practices of local company Mara Restoration were demonstrating outside of the Delaware County courthouse complex garage. Mara Restoration is responsible for Phase I of the Delaware County Garage Restoration project. Anthony Moss, Field Representative from Local 413, a union of Laborers’ International Union of North...

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Wawa presented application to Planning Commission November 7th

Nov 09

I had the opportunity to attend the Planning Commission meeting this week on Wednesday and observe the presentation by Wawa. The Delaware County Times wrote a nice summary of what happened. In addition, Media Patch also has some very good reporting of the conversation among Planning Commission members and Wawa. By my estimates, approximately 25 residents were in...

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Media, PA Election Results 2012: Obama wins nationally, Delco stays Republican, state races go blue

Nov 07

The unofficial election results for Media, PA voting precincts. Obama wins another four years as President According to the New York Times, Barack Obama won Pennsylvania (which was considered leaning Democratic), Ohio, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Nevada. Florida appears to also have been slightly in favor of Obama at the time of writing. Delaware County stays...

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Election day huge turnout!

Nov 06

Election day in Media, PA is turning into what appears to be record number of voters. In Western district (One of Media’s smaller district) we’ve received over 550 voters so far at 5:00 PM today – leaving this evening’s rush to put the numbers even higher. This is more than 50% of eligible voters in Media – and other precincts are...

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Breaking: Judge blocks Voter ID Law in PA

Oct 02

From NBC News: A Pennsylvania judge has blocked enforcement of the key section of a voter identification law which the state legislature enacted and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed last March, meaning that the law will not be in effect for the Nov. 6 election. The PA Voter ID Law was enacted by the current Pennsylvania legislature. The head of the Pennsylvania...

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Third Street Dam debate continues, again

Sep 28

In order to get a somewhat balanced view of the last meeting, here’s articles (by this and other sites regarding Third Street Dam): Third St. Bridge discussion nears fever pitch (Delaware County Times) Media Patch report on 3rd Street Dam issue at September 20th Legislative Meetin Media, PA News report on 3rd Street Dam issue at September 20th Legislative...

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