http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware RSS Feed for Inq Main Line & Delco en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:15:01 GMT http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/6104261.html http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091122_Volunteers_spend_a_day_greening_the_city.html Over the weekend, 1,000 new residents put down roots in Philadelphia. They are the best kind of neighbor - cool and self-possessed, upstanding and good-looking. And although they will never pay taxes, dish any gossip, or lend you a cup of sugar, by merely moving in they have helped improve property values and morale throughout the city. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091122_Living_testimony_from_a_Pa__ghost_employee.html HARRISBURG - For decades, Pennsylvania government has been haunted by ghosts - the illegal kind embodied by patronage hires who, though flesh and blood, don't do a stitch of work for their government salaries. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091122_Open_or_Closed_for_Thanksgiving.html Thursday   Pennsylvania   New Jersey     Banks   Closed    Optional    Savings & loans   Closed   Optional    Federal agencies   Closed   Closed    Federal courts   Closed   Closed    State agencies*    Closed   Closed    Local/state courts*    Closed    Closed    http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091121_SEPTA_workers_approve_five-year_contract.html With none of the dramatics that marked their bitter, six-day strike against SEPTA, transit workers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve a new five-year contract. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091121_Six_charged_in_W__Phila__rape.html Police last night were holding six male suspects, ranging in age from 16 to 52, all charged in the assault of a woman who was dragged from a Chinese takeout in West Philadelphia and gang-raped in a nearby apartment. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091121_Two_drug_officers_taken_off_street_in_corruption_probe.html Two more narcotics officers have lost their police powers and been forced to give up their weapons in an ongoing corruption investigation that has ensnared three others this year. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091121_Flight_to_Ohio_rescues__puppy-mill__dogs.html When a Philadelphia animal-welfare activist heard that nearly 400 Lancaster County dogs had been trucked to an auction in Ohio last month, he saw it as a chance to call attention to animal abuse in Pennsylvania. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091121_A_bicycle_blitz_in_Center_City.html Philadelphia police officers biked through Center City on a mission to make bicyclists more aware of their surroundings, their fellow travelers on the streets, and, most important, the laws they're supposed to follow. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/main_line_delaware/20091120_Devon_subscribers_get_Media_Theatre_offer.html About 700 subscribers to the Devon Theater in Northeast Philadelphia, which has canceled its inaugural season, citing a cut in anticipated state funding, have a new alternative for their unused tickets: a theater 27 miles away.