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Issue date: 3/7/08 Section: News
Chelsea Clinton visits University of Pennsylvania
Hundreds of Penn students gathered on Wynn Commons to hear the former first daughter talk about the presidential election and about her mother, Sen. Hillary Clinton, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported.
"There are issues I disagree with my mother on," Chelsea Clinton said. "But those are for my kitchen table."
Chelsea Clinton also spoke on the importance of Pennsylvania as a key battle ground in determining the presidential election.
"There are still a lot of states that have to vote," she said. "We're in one right now," she said.
The Pennsylvania primary is April 22, and voters must register as Democrats or Republicans and registration forms must be received by March 24.
City shuts down slum stables
City inspectors and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals agents raided a row house horse stable in the Strawberry Mansion section of the city, the Philadelphia Daily News reported March 6.
Officials found urine-soaked carpeting covers, spongy wooden planks and cobwebbed chains dangle from the ceiling, which is hidden in a dungeon-like gloom penetrated by just a few bare light bulbs, The Daily News reported.
Agents found 60 horses and gave the owners 24 hours to relocate their animals, after which the SPCA will take them.
SPCA agents removed a pony and a horse that they decided were too sick to stay, the Daily News reported.
Temple University hospital tests crisis plan
Temple University Hospital went under a simulated lockdown March 6 as officials tested plans for disaster of Hurricane Katrina proportions, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. A hospital spokesman said Temple Hospital was one of the first area medical centers to give the plan a test run.
The mock event, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., did not disrupt patient services, the Inquirer reported. The drill tested new smart cards for healthcare professionals. About 30 volunteers participated in a scenario, which involved a fictitious fire at a city high school, the newspaper wrote.
Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Delaware Valley Hospital Council assisted in the drill.
Bill Clinton to meet with ward leaders Friday
Sources have said Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to address the city's Democratic ward leaders tomorrow to pitch his wife's candidacy while on a campaign swing through Philadelphia, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sources told the Inquirer they do not expect the ward leaders to come to a decision on Sens. Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Brady, in an interview, said the committee also will hear from a surrogate for Obama, but the Illinois senator's campaign has not yet confirmed who it will be.
Among the possibilities, he said it may be his wife, Michelle Obama, or Sens. Edward Kennedy or John Kerry, the Inquirer reported.
Hundreds of Penn students gathered on Wynn Commons to hear the former first daughter talk about the presidential election and about her mother, Sen. Hillary Clinton, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported.
"There are issues I disagree with my mother on," Chelsea Clinton said. "But those are for my kitchen table."
Chelsea Clinton also spoke on the importance of Pennsylvania as a key battle ground in determining the presidential election.
"There are still a lot of states that have to vote," she said. "We're in one right now," she said.
The Pennsylvania primary is April 22, and voters must register as Democrats or Republicans and registration forms must be received by March 24.
City shuts down slum stables
City inspectors and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals agents raided a row house horse stable in the Strawberry Mansion section of the city, the Philadelphia Daily News reported March 6.
Officials found urine-soaked carpeting covers, spongy wooden planks and cobwebbed chains dangle from the ceiling, which is hidden in a dungeon-like gloom penetrated by just a few bare light bulbs, The Daily News reported.
Agents found 60 horses and gave the owners 24 hours to relocate their animals, after which the SPCA will take them.
SPCA agents removed a pony and a horse that they decided were too sick to stay, the Daily News reported.
Temple University hospital tests crisis plan
Temple University Hospital went under a simulated lockdown March 6 as officials tested plans for disaster of Hurricane Katrina proportions, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. A hospital spokesman said Temple Hospital was one of the first area medical centers to give the plan a test run.
The mock event, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., did not disrupt patient services, the Inquirer reported. The drill tested new smart cards for healthcare professionals. About 30 volunteers participated in a scenario, which involved a fictitious fire at a city high school, the newspaper wrote.
Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Delaware Valley Hospital Council assisted in the drill.
Bill Clinton to meet with ward leaders Friday
Sources have said Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to address the city's Democratic ward leaders tomorrow to pitch his wife's candidacy while on a campaign swing through Philadelphia, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sources told the Inquirer they do not expect the ward leaders to come to a decision on Sens. Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Brady, in an interview, said the committee also will hear from a surrogate for Obama, but the Illinois senator's campaign has not yet confirmed who it will be.
Among the possibilities, he said it may be his wife, Michelle Obama, or Sens. Edward Kennedy or John Kerry, the Inquirer reported.
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