It seems like a straightforward question — until you start asking around. Plus, environmental advocacy groups hope the Schuylkill River could someday be clean enough to swim in.
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Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s return-to-office announcement this week spurred immediate backlash from city workers — and came just weeks before their union’s existing contract is set to expire,State Rep. Kevin Boyle returned to the Capitol on Tuesday after a tumultuous month that included public concerns about his mental health and aantiabortion activist Mark Houck, who lost a GOP primary challenge to U.S. Rep.
The divisive 10-foot, 2,000-pound bronze likeness of former Mayor Frank L. Rizzo could soon be reunited with the group thatThink “Schuylkill,” and you probably don’t follow that thought with “let’s splash around.” A crew of environmental nonprofits wants to change that — someday.In a word, sewage. The city’s aging sewer system can’t always handle the excess of water from big storms, sending pollution and bacteria into the river.
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