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Washington Post Details How an Area Flower Farmer Kept Up Her Spirits During a Time of Stress, Sacrifice
The Farm at Oxford – which grows thousands of peonies, dahlias, and bulbs each year – has added a vegetable garden to its 12-acre property during the pandemic, writes Adrian Higgins for The Washington Post. After realizing she wanted to start growing vegetables on her land, the farm’s owner, Mara Tyler, contacted her friend, Matthew…
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PA Chamber Statement on Violence at U.S. Capitol
PA Chamber President and CEO Gene Barr issued the following statement in regards to Wednesday’s violent security breach at the U.S. Capitol Building. “Yesterday’s violence at the U.S. Capitol was completely unacceptable. It was an assault on our democracy and an affront to our ideals. Those who committed these acts should be prosecuted as soon…
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Time to Close the Book on 2020; DELCO Today Wishes You Happy New Year!
We made it. We finally get to close the book on a year we’d love nothing more than to forget. Courtesy of a pandemic, a phenomenon most of us once viewed as almost unimaginable, 2020 produced countless challenges for everyone. Now, with COVID-19 vaccines starting to make the rounds, we hope that the New Year…
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Wall Street Journal: Here’s What is in the New COVID-19 Relief Bill
President Donald Trump has signed into law the new $900 billion COVID-19 aid package that will bring relief to many individuals and businesses that are the most affected by the pandemic, according to a staff report from The Wall Street Journal. The three main components of the bill will benefit households and workers. The legislation…
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So You Own A Business. Do You Mandate Vaccines?
Once, my dad hooked our collapsible camper to the back of our 1980 Datsun hatchback. Needless to say, when we drove through that puddle the camper whipped our Datsun around like they were in a do-si-do. Seatbelt laws didn’t exist, so us kids were snuggled in sleeping bags in the aforementioned hatchback. The accident concussed my brother. The Datsun was totaled. We were out of state, so we spent…
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DELCO Today Wishes You Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
DELCO Today would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we should take nothing for granted. Therefore, we, here at DELCO Today, would like to express our eternal gratitude for your dedicated readership and for allowing us to try to brighten…
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Wiser Wealth: 7 Ways to Reduce Anxiety Over Holiday Overspending
It’s easy to overspend at Christmas, triggering debt anxiety when the bills come due in January, writes Lisa Walden for housebeautiful.com. So here are some tips to help you spend wisely during the holidays. 1. Set your festive budget Create a realistic budget of how much you want to spend. Include food, presents, decorations, transport,…
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Maurice Hilleman, Considered Father of Modern Vaccines, Did His Best Work In Montgomery County
Maurice Ralph Hilleman, who is considered the father of modern vaccines and by some as the greatest scientist of the 20th century, led Merck’s virus and vaccination research programs in West Point near Lansdale for nearly half a century, writes Doug Stewart for Famous Scientists. Hilleman got his moniker with good reason: he invented eight…
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Zoom Phone From Haverford Systems Is the Next Step in the Business PBX Experience
Since the pandemic started and everyone went into some version of lockdown last spring, Zoom has become a household name; a way for people to connect, build relationships, and do business. Now the Zoom Phone, with more than 400 features, enhances and modernizes the Zoom and PBX experience. The Zoom Phone starts with video conferencing…
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Chestnut Hill College Supports Adult Learners
For more than 20 years, Chestnut Hill College has been a leader in the region in serving adult learners looking to begin or complete a certificate, associate, or baccalaureate degree through the Accelerated Adult Degree Program. According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, seventeen percent of people over 25 years old in Philadelphia have earned college…
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Wall Street Journal: How America’s First One-term President Found Purpose and Reconciliation after Defeat
While John Adams, the United States’ first one-term president, did not take his political defeat well, over time his resentment abated and he found a path towards reconciliation with his then opponent, Thomas Jefferson, writes Ted Widmer for The Wall Street Journal. Adams became the nation’s president in 1797. His election after George Washington stepped…
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Serenity of Malvern Belies the Tragedy That Occurred There Nearly Two Centuries Ago
In 1832, 57 Irish immigrants who had arrived in Philadelphia just weeks earlier were brutally murdered while working on the railroad at Duffy’s Cut in Malvern, writes Virginia Lindak for Hidden City. Their murder went ignored and unreported. Dr. William Watson, a professor of history at Immaculata University, helped uncover what had happened when he…
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Wiser Wealth: The DOW Hit 30,000 Last Week. What is the Dow and Why It Matters
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tells the daily story of financial markets as it tracks 30 stocks of big U.S. companies. It includes all major industry sectors except utilities, transportation and real estate, which are represented in separate indexes. The Dow began as a gauge of “smokestack” industrial and raw-materials companies but now represents a…
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Pennsylvania Passes One of Least Restrictive Autonomous Delivery Robot Laws
In November, Pennsylvania passed one of the nation’s least restrictive laws that regulate the movement speed and weight of autonomous delivery robots, writes Ryan Deto for the Pittsburgh City Paper. The law was passed without Gov. Tom Wolf’s signature and mostly along partisan lines, with Republicans supporting it and Democrats opposing and calling it a…
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15 Ways to Holiday Virtually, Delco Style
There is just one Ebenezer Scrooge for me. Well, two. It’s George C. Scott. And whoever is playing Scrooge at Walnut Street Theater. I’m inclined to stay home this December. No Walnut Street Scrooge. Fortunately, I’ve found ways to fill December with COVID-safe events. The Year Without A Santa Claus? Never! Visit Santa virtually through King of Prussia Mall here. Or find a few ways to get your…
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“Holidaying” at King of Prussia Mall: Making the Most of America’s Largest Mall in the Oddest of Christmas Seasons
I married an honest-to-goodness, true-blue Grinch. Well, true-green Grinch. My Grinch doesn’t enjoy Christmas carols, holiday shopping, or A Christmas Story. I tell him his heart is two sizes too small. He says my heart is enlarged. Last week, my middle-schooler told me he always detested sitting on Santa’s lap. So I’m also raising a…
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WSJ: Develop Your Own “E-charisma” to Break Through on Zoom!
By Wendi Rank I was looking for an opening, a way to wedge in my story. Each month, my friends and I hold a Zoom chat. And each month, I can never get in more than a few words. But my beagle had dug up my dead cat, rolled around on her corpse, then brought the stench of feline cadaver into the house. At…
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Judge Approves Springfield Mall Owner’s Bankruptcy Restructuring Plan
After failing to get 100% of their lenders to approve of their restructuring plan, PREIT prepared to take the matter to court earlier this year and received approval for their plan at the end of November. Per Jacob Adelman of The Philadelphia Inquirer, this new plan allows PREIT to borrow an additional $130 million in…
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