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Keep It Local dealt a blow by judge’s ruling … Feds cry foul over Keep It Local group’s planned “improper and unlawful treatment” of union pension funds at The Inquirer & Daily News … Haas heir seeks a stake in The Inquirer … Scroll through front pages over the decades at the Inquirer’s 180th anniversary Website. … Video, program from Carol Horner tribute.

Updates
Mary Walton’s book, “A Woman’s crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot,” is done and scheduled for August 2010 publication. … Linda Herskowitz Kriger still would rather be in Philadelphia, and that’s where she is: freelancing and raising 2 sons and a husband .. Dan Biddle returns from a book leave to become Pennsylvania editor … Legal-eagle reporter Emilie Lounsberry heads to academia this fall … Two more veteran shooters are off to new adventures: John Costello and Eric Mencher (Colleagues will gather for a send-off on August 20 at 7 p.m. at COPA, 4th and South Streets.) … Veteran Camden cops reporter Dwight Ott types ’30′ on his 33 years at the paper … Sara Freligh is fellowing for the National Endowment for the Arts, one of only 42 U.S. poets to do so … Gail Shister is off to teach and write, having ended her long, high-profile run at the paper … Mike Blackman teaches in Wacky Waco … Paul Moore returns to the mother ship … Mitch Lipka contributes to WalletPop.com and works at AOL … Bob Drogan roves for the LAT … Bob Frump finds that Texans believe size does matter … Henry Holcomb volunteers dockside … Former editorial writer Doug Pike has congressional aspirations … Caren Crockett checks in from Amsterdam … Leslie West Hoffecker edits at CQ Today after her not-so-Zell experience at the LAT … Charlie Layton is on patrol in beautiful Ocean Grove … Dave Lieber has a column called The Watchdog, imagine that? … Larry Reibsten is saving for college (again) … Dale Mezzacappa has gone back to school, in a manner of speaking … Naughton is recalling great pranks from the past. Read the details, plus much more on the Alumni Directory page. … Meanwhile, can we publish your e-mail in our directory? Please tell us by filling out an update form.

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