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At the district's public school board meeting, Quakertown Community Schools Superintendent, Dr. Lisa Andrejko, refuted statements written by Richland Township Supervisor Rick Orloff in the latest edition of the township's quarterly newsletter.

P.A.S.S. Founders in Harrisburg, PA to meet with local legislators to gather support for stricter laws regarding bullying and safe schools.

Hospital patients deserve better than a tent! H1N1 National Emergency has been declared. The PMG PORTABLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM is fully scalable, fully functional, and has real walls! The PMG Portable Hospital Systems Provide Real Surge Capacity!

Earlier today, supporting green initiatives and our reliance on petroleum is what President Obama spoke at MIT about. The majority of toner cartridges on the market today have petroleum based resins. Mother Earth Recycling now offers an alternate.

Howard R. Jean, Director of Call Me MISTER Teacher Leadership program, has been invited to be a guest on the National Public Radio’s, The Tavis Smiley Radio Show. The interview will air next week on WHAT Radio AM 1340.

Premier Systems Ltd and Secure64 Partnership Provides DNSSEC Solution to Meet OMB Mandate M-08-23.

Officials at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania have announced that the University experienced a 4 percent enrollment increase over enrollment last year (2008) bringing the headcount to approximately 1488 students for the Fall 2009 Semester.

Today's Child, in conjunction with the Southeastern PA Coalition for Essential Services, hosted the "Fund Education Now!" rally, on Monday evening, to encourage legislators to pass a fair budget for the state of Pennsylvania.

Healthcare Market Resources conducted a state by state analysis of the Medicare Home Health Outlier payments which revealed a 2.5% cap on the outlier payments will in fact produce meaningful health care savings without affecting patient access.

Villanova University is hosting the 2009 Pennsylvania Stormwater Symposium. The event will aid our knowledge and understanding of sustainable stormwater management for all aspects of planning, design, implementation and regulatory compliance.

Today's Child and its partners will be hosting the "Fund Education Now!" rally in Sharon Hill, PA on Sept. 14, 2009 at 5:00pm

Skill Addiction has added a brand new feature, Treasure Hunt, to its community. Use your precision hunting skills to hone in on thousands of prizes like Toys, TVs, Gift Cards, Tokens, Laptops, and Cash! Best of all, this feature is Free!

A new company established by PDC Spas' vice president is colaborating with a state grant program to develop products and technologies.

The Center for Literacy, alongside 60 other social service organizations and supporters will rally on Wednesday, August 26 at noon at the Delaware County Courthouse in Media, PA to urge legislators to pass a fair and equitable state budget

A rally will be taking place on August 26th in Media, PA, to push for full funding of Early Childhood Education in any new state budget to be passed.

Philadelphia-area PR Firm Teams Up with Two New Legal Clients

Governor Ed Rendell will speak Saturday at Today's Child Learning Center in Sharon Hill, PA, Saturday, on early childhood education and its importance to the state of Pennsylvania during the current budget impasse.

The proposed Health Care Bil (H.R. 3200) is difficult to read online, and too big to print on most home & office printers. Printme1.com is offering to print and ship a copy for just 3.5¢ per page.

The New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership (NJ 2-1-1) and Rhiza Labs have launched a portal that connects New Jersey residents to health, government, and human services. NJ 2-1-1’s portal enables residents to get help confidentially, quickly and easily.

SBA's e200 selects Jobecca Technology Group, LLC to participate in the Small Business Administration (SBA) Emerging 200 (e200) initiative.

Free Wind & Solar Workshop to help individuals and businesses “Get Off The Grid™.” It is an uncertain time as we await the final announcement of the utility deregulations and the effects of the predicted skyrocketing energy costs.

The H&K Group was presented with the Patriot Award by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an organization within the United States Department of Defense.

The food and pharmaceutical supply chain faces challenges from stock safety, counterfeiting, diversion & theft, chargebacks and returns that require the linking of item-level serialization with track and trace capabilities.

June 17- Aston, PA -Engineered Arresting Systems and Wal-Mart have teamed up to support the troops in a care package drive at the ESCO plant by it's employees. Approximately 200 lbs of care packages have been shipped in the first weeks of the drive.

The Pocono Northeast Resource, Conservation, and Development Council awards to solar panels to the Carbon County Conservation District and the Carbon County Environmental Education Center at Local Energy Expo.

Mobile Pelletizer converts grass into a fuel that can be burned in wood pellet stoves. Unit operating at the Luzerne County Fairgrounds at the Energy/Environmental Solutions Expo

Larry Kaplan, author of the exciting new novel HOUSE OF GHOSTS, will take part in a virtual book tour from June 16 through June 20, 2009. Follow along and join the fun!

Hepatitis B Foundation, AAPCHO and NVHR Work Together to Raise Awareness About 6 Million Americans Suffering from Chronic Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C

Ralph J. Ingerto of Lumberton, New Jersey has earned the Project Management Institute's most recognized and respected global credential -- the Project Management Professional or PMP®.

The one-day course will provide an introduction to soil science and soil field morphology for the professional, wetland biologist, scientist, geologist, sewage enforcement officier, and educator.

Program to provide tuition aid to veterans

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was proud to have State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, D-Philadelphia, present an Honorary Resolution to special guest lecturer Nikki Giovanni on Thursday, April 9.

RegScan, Inc. has recently posted the ERG (Emergency Response Guide) 2008 video online in its entirety as a public service to hazmat transportation professionals.

RegScan, Inc. has recently added numerous new State regulatory topical areas to its GCS service. According to the company, these new topical areas make finding the regulations specific to a particular industry easier and less time intensive.

In a Gallup poll published in the May 22, 1996, USA Today, 83 percent of Americans favored a balanced budget amendment and just 14 percent opposed it. I propose a "surplus budgeting amendment". I believe their would be strong public support for it.

Rhiza Labs is launching an entry-level offering of Rhiza Insight, its acclaimed web-based GIS application, for a lower monthly price. Now organizations can visualize, share and publish geo-data online with easy tools that anyone can use.

The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Chestnut Hill College with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities.

Aging with Grace, a national eldercare resource company, headquartered in Montgomery Co., PA. has been selected as the preferred provider for the Eldercare Services Program for the Association of Federal State County and Municipal Employees.

More than 70,000 Pennsylvania students are caught in the crosshairs of two dangerous budget proposals that threaten equal access to public education. Only the more affluent school districts stand to benefit.

KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth. Now, mobile users can download files from any web site or their own desktop for mobile display.

For the first time since 1993, low income Pennsylvanians living in personal care homes will receive an increase in their Personal Needs Allowance (PNA). The last time the PNA was increased companies like Yahoo and Amazon didn’t exist.

A self-published book author publishes an analysis of different worldwide undertakings and statistics pointing to the fact that President Obama is not only president of the US, but of the world.

In celebration of the 44th Presidential Inauguration there will be a FREE Live broadcast of the Inauguration outside the Independence Visitor Center on Independence Mall.

The nation's first historically black institution for higher learning plans to celebrate the inauguration of the nation's first black president.

Managing Violence at Home Workshop of 2008 - Special Guest Speakers – Dr. Rosalyn Pitts, Beverly Mays, MA and Anna D. Banks, GCDF, Moderated by Commissioner Bridgette Obradovic, Governors Advisory Commission on African American Affairs.

Author of Self Published Book Proposes Guiding Principles for President-Elect Obama

The Cheyney University NAACP College Chapter, in collaboration with the university’s Young Democrats and Young Republicans student organizations are planning Election Day activities designed to engage the campus community in the voting process.

Former Philadelphia Mayor, the Honorable John F. Street, will visit Cheyney University, the nation’s oldest historically black institution of higher education on November 11, 2008 to speak to students, faculty, staff, and members of the community.

Cheyney University NAACP college chapter, in cooperation with the CU College Republicans and Young Democrats organized a debate for area incumbent, Tom Killion, and candidate, Ian Thomas.

Cheyney University ranked number one of the college units of the NAACP. For the past four years, the CU unit has been in compliance with national standards and recently registered over 1,000 students to vote on the university’s campus.