Jeseamy Muentes – Temple Update

Noche de Elecciones: Ganadores del Ayuntamiento de Filadelfia

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:40:29 +0000

La candidata de Working Families, Kendra Brooks, marca el comienzo de una sorprendente victoria, ganando uno de los dos escaños minoritarios de At-Large disponibles en el Ayuntamiento de Filadelfia. La victoria marca la primera vez que uno de estos escaños minoritarios reservados ha ido a un partido no importante en décadas. En un giro de los acontecimientos no tan sorprendente…

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Noche de Elecciones: El Alcalde Incumbento Gana

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 01:59:49 +0000

El actual alcalde demócrata Jim Kenney ha sido declarado 99º alcalde de Filadelfia justo después de las 10 p.m. En su discurso de aceptación, recordó su candidatura inicial para alcalde en 2015, una campaña que dijo que quería hacer algo radical, demostrar que “cada vecindario y cada niño son importantes”. Dijo que está orgulloso de ser el alcalde de educación. Kenney ganó el 84% de los votos…

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Election Night: City Council Results In

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 01:50:14 +0000

Update at 12:25am on November 6: Working Families candidate Kendra Brooks ushers in a stunning victory, winning one of two At-Large minority seats available on Philadelphia’s City Council. The victory marks the first time one of these reserved minority seats has gone to a non-major party in decades. In a not-so-surprising turn of events, incumbent Democrats Helen Gym, Derek Green and Allan…

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TSG Campaigns for 2017-18 Underway

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:41:43 +0000

Temple Student Government campaign season is underway. This year, two teams are running to be named the highest student body representatives – Activate TU and Connecting TU announced their runs this week. Temple Update’s Taggart Houck moderated a debate alongside Temple New’s Julie Christie on March 23. The two hour debate included questions from the audience using #TSGRound1.

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Exclusive Sit-Down Interview: Student’s Family Deported Under President Trump’s Executive Action

Sat, 04 Feb 2017 22:11:49 +0000

President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order that bars refugees and immigrants from 7 different Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States hit a little too close to home for one Temple biology student this weekend. Joey Assali waited at home to greet his Syrian family on Saturday morning, they should have arrived in Allentown, PA to start their new life in the U.S.A.

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Christmas Village: A Philadelphia Tradition

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:35:51 +0000

Philadelphia’s Christmas Village has returned for it’s ninth season. The holiday tradition is modeled after German Christmas markets, notably the Nuremberg Christmas market. An entirely German team heads up the holiday market that’s made it’s home at City Hall on Dilworth Plaza from Thanksgiving day until Christmas Eve. The Christmas Village began on Dilworth Plaza in 2008 and moved in 2011…

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Temple Boathouse Opens Again After 8 Years

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:22:47 +0000

The Temple University Rowing Teams have been without a boathouse since the East Park Canoe House was condemned by the city of Philadelphia in January 2008. This upcoming spring, the rowing teams will make their triumphant return to the boathouse. Temple University rowing teams have called this boathouse theirs since 1967, exactly fifty years ago. But for the last eight years, the teams have been…

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Regional Rail Delays Will Likely Impact Temple Commuters

Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:45:09 +0000

Fall semester officially begins this week and students are preparing for new class loads, new living spaces and for the university’s commuter students which make up half of the university’s enrolled students, commuters will now have to make time for a new kind of train delay. SEPTA announced on July 3 that it would pull 120 of it’s Silverline V Railroad Cars from it’s regional rail due to…

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