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3232Board of Trustees Halt Plans to Increase Meal Plan Prices
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https://templeupdate.com/board-of-trustees-halt-plans-to-increase-meal-plan-prices/#respondFri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00:11 +0000https://templeupdate.com/?p=13453View More » ]]>Temple’s Board of Trustees voted last Tuesday to increase meal plan prices by 6 percent. Temple’s Chief Financial Officer, Ken Kaiser said this increase was mostly due to the soda tax, which he expects to cost the university $400,000. Temple Update reached out to Kaiser multiple times, but he declined to comment. Mayor Kenney. however, was quick to respond to these allegations by issuing this…
]]>https://templeupdate.com/board-of-trustees-halt-plans-to-increase-meal-plan-prices/feed/0Richie’s Says So Long to Soda
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https://templeupdate.com/richies-says-goodbye-to-soda/#respondThu, 02 Mar 2017 18:45:42 +0000https://templeupdate.com/?p=13268View More » ]]>The city of Philadelphia is now two months into the beverage tax, a 1.5-cents-per-ounce tax on the distribution of sweetened beverages as well as syrups and concentrates used to make sweetened beverages. The tax influenced a popular Temple business, Richie’s Deli and Pizza, to take sugary beverages off the menu all together. Richie’s has been in the area for three generations.