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City Hall Roll Call: December 2, 2021

Council passes compromise "Streeteries" legislation

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The State of Civic Education in Pennsylvania, 2025

Join PA Civics for a virtual event to celebrate innovative educators and hear from policymakers attempting to make Pennsylvania a national leader in civics.

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Sen. Dan Laughlin to Introduce Open Primaries Legislation to Enfranchise 900,000 Independent Voters on Election Day

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NON-PARTISAN VOLUNTEERS READY TO HELP VOTERS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

WHAT: The Committee of Seventy has recruited and trained 150 non-partisan volunteers to help Pennsylvania voters on November 4, 2014. Representatives of the media are urged to remind Philadelphians with questions about voting, or who experience problems at the polls, to call Seventy’s NEW dedicated elections hotline at 1-855-SEVENTY (1-855-738-3689).

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Philadelphia City Commissioner Offices on Ballot in 2019

Better Philadelphia Elections Agenda to be Released Next Year

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What Are Your Bubbles?

To help students grasp the shape and dimensions of the bubbles inside which they live, and to identify strategies for venturing outside those bubbles to experience and learn.

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Greta and the Giants

by Zoe Tucker

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Committee of Seventy Calls on PA Congressional Leaders to Support Additional Federal Funding to Ensure Safe and Secure Elections

Local jurisdictions will bear the heaviest burden of protecting voters and workers from COVID-19. They need federal funding now.

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113th Anniversary Luncheon with Jon Meacham best-selling author & presidential historian

Art of Leadership: Lessons from the American Presidency

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City Hall Roll Call: October 21, 2021

"Who is in charge in this city?"

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