>What’s afoot at this august institution? The construction is all most of us will ever see of a $25 million investment in a rooftop restaurant with an expansive terrace, coming in 2023.
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>The skyward growth is a sign of the 160-year-old Union League’s commitment to Center City in the pandemic era. The idea is to offer a more relaxed environment, where the club’s strict dress code can be modestly eased and give members a private place to dine outdoors downtown.
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>“It shows a real faith in the city,” said Lee Hyden, principal at The H. Chambers Company, and lead architect on the project. “I wouldn’t call it modernizing, but it is contemporary. Staying with the times, keeping it relevant, so that they can stay in the city.”
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>St. Christopher’s sits in the bull’s-eye of what pediatricians are calling a “tridemic,” as RSV, flu, and COVID-19 strike all at once. All across the country, children’s hospitals are overwhelmed from an unusually early and severe onslaught of seasonal respiratory viruses.
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>In this swath of Philadelphia — the nation’s poorest large city — chronic disease and poverty have further aggravated the crisis. The neighborhood surrounding the hospital at Erie Avenue and Front Street has the city’s highest rate of childhood asthma. More than 90% of life-threatening asthma attacks in children are triggered by respiratory viruses, according to Reingold, chair of the hospital’s department of emergency medicine.
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When virus and asthma collide, the resulting cyclone of respiratory distress can quickly lead to a hospital emergency for a kid who lives near St. Christopher’s.
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>ER veterans at St. Christopher’s have never seen anything like these last few months. And they fear the worst may be yet to come as the region heads into a winter where few people are still masking. Young children are now getting exposed to viruses for the first time.

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>last week, the business advocacy group for Jewelers Row learned that Toll Brothers is abandoning its plans and selling the vacant lot to Pearl Properties, a Philadelphia-based developer and rental company that owns many historic residential buildings.
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>“Jim Pearlstein, who is the president of Pearl Properties, reached out to me directly” to say they had acquired the site, said Rich Goldberg, president of the Jewelers Row District.
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>Goldberg said that Pearl Properties does not have exact plans yet, but that construction could begin as early as mid-2023.
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>Neither Pearl Properties nor Toll Brothers would comment.

>D.C.’s police force has struggled to find recruits in the competitive labor market and it’s trying to stand out with its generous hiring bonuses and recruitment campaigns in metros like New York City and Philadelphia. But these efforts come as the Philadelphia Police Department faces recruitment woes of its own.
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>Philadelphia police are short about 500 officers and pension records show the department expects hundreds more employees will retire within the next four years. And more than 500 officers are off duty on injury claims, a trend driven in part by abuse of a state disability benefit.
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>Amid changing attitudes toward policing and an unrelenting gun violence crisis, the Philadelphia Police Department is not worried D.C. might be drawing local talent with hefty bonuses. Philly hires start off at just shy of $60,000 and can reach close to $64,000 within six months. After an 18-month probationary period, MPD’s new hires make close to $66,000 but they also have to afford the D.C. area’s higher cost of living.
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>Officers in Washington, D.C., are not required to live in the city while Philadelphia police officers must move into the city within a year of getting hired. Earlier this year, Philadelphia waived a requirement that new recruits live in the city for at least a year before starting the job.
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>Ruch was convicted of 11.5 to 23 months behind bars for the deadly shooting.
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>District Attorney Larry Krasner called the sentence "concerning" and "troubling" because the standard range is a minimum of 54 months in prison.
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>"We respectfully request that the Court reconsider its sentence, and sentence the defendant within the state standard guidelines. His conduct warranted such a sentence, and it would be the just result," he said.
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>The felony manslaughter charge carries a term of up to 20 years in prison.
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