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SLAP Protest on college green in support of Dinning hall workers

On Thursday morning, students, faculty, Bon Appétit employees and community members gathered to support and raise awareness about the Justice on the Menu campaign. Justice on the Menu, which was launched Monday, aims to increase wages and the number of sick days for Bon Appétit dining hall workers.


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As the race heats up for a second city casino license, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission hosted three open houses this week to gather citizen opinion. “We’re trying to get these proposals to be as good as they can possibly be,” Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger, who also chairs the PCPC, said. Posterboards displayed renderings of each casino, the projects’ statistics and maps of current land use in the area.


Peter Orszag discusses political economy, healthcare and the future of American public policy

Orszag — current Citigroup vice chairman of corporate and investment banking — served as President Barack Obama’s director of the Office of Management and Budget until 2010. He spoke Thursday night at the Annenberg School of Communication at an event titled “Possibilities and Perils: The Future of Economic Policy.”










For all you New Yorker readers: Ryan Lizza has written several profiles of major presidential candidates and other political figures. Not only is he an excellent writer, he's going to have a lot of cool "inside" Washington stories.

Wearing a purple skinny tie and a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, Lizza seemed more a contributor to GQ than a Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. However, his lunch discussion at the Kelly Writers House yesterday was all politics, as he spoke about his career as a political journalist.