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Cash and Carrynew

Why are your tax dollars feeding the pro-life machine?
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Holly Otterbein  |  08-22-2011  |  Policy Issues

Torn Awaynew

Is the government unconstitutionally - and indefinitely - jailing Cambodian refugees? A traumatized community demands answers.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Holly Otterbein  |  06-07-2011  |  Civil Liberties

Why Are Steven Brigham's Dangerous Abortion Clinics Still Open?new

Steven Brigham has overseen abortion procedures in Pennsylvania for decades, and he's run afoul of the law throughout his career. Abortion providers and women's health advocates say they've alerted the state repeatedly to concerns over Brigham's clinics.

So why are his clinics are still open?
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Holly Otterbein  |  04-05-2011  |  The War on Women

The Warriorsnew

How the decades-long fight against AIDS made radicals out of activists.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Holly Otterbein  |  02-15-2011  |  Politics

Philadelphia's Hall of Secretsnew

There are some things the city of Philadelphia doesn't want people to know.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Holly Otterbein  |  09-15-2010  |  Policy Issues

Can Anthony Williams Become the First Black Governor of Pennsylvania?new

Can Anthony Williams win as a black man in a state that even Gov. Ed Rendell has suggested is racist? If Williams thinks so, it's in part because of his father's legacy.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Holly Otterbein  |  05-04-2010  |  Politics

Petty's Island, a Fin-Shaped Slice of Strange in the Delaware Rivernew

Never heard of Petty's Island? It's littered with colorful characters — Pennsylvania founder William Penn, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, a man who declared himself the island's king, and even the pirate's pirate himself, Ol' Blackbeard.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Holly Otterbein  |  02-02-2010  |  Economy

At Philly's Art Hotel, Residents Earn Their Keep With Their Work, Not Their Walletsnew

The Art Hotel's guests carry out their free, two-week artist residencies in a quite unusual way: Rather than live in a separate building, or at least in separate rooms than the founders, they set up camp in the very townhouse we're chatting in.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Holly Otterbein  |  09-01-2009  |  Art

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