Boy Scouts

Boy Scouts Considering Changing Policy Of Excluding Gays

The Boys Scouts of America is considering a dramatic change in its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members.

2013/01/28

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Boy Scouts From Across The Region Compete For Nuclear Science Merit Badge

More than six dozen boy scouts spent Saturday in the shadow of a nuclear power plant in order to earn a special merit badge.

2012/03/24

(The Boys Scouts' chapter headquarters, at 22nd and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, was at the center of a civil rights tug-of-war between the Scouts and the city. File photo)

Controversy Behind The Future Of The Boy Scouts Historic Building Continues

City lawyers say they are ‘likely to appeal’ a federal court ruling that went against the city this week, in the long-running controversy over the future of the Boy Scouts historic building.

2012/03/24

Stigall Show Log 3.22.12

Chris talks to John Cicala of the Fraternal Order of Transit Police about the SEPTA Police Strike, Pennsylvania State Senator Larry Farnese about his proposed legislation in response to the Republican Ultrasound bill and to Buzz Bissinger about the Penalties handed out to the New Orleans Saints for trying to knock players out of games.

Talk Radio 1210 WPHT–2012/03/22

Local Boy Scouts Take To The Airwaves To Communicate With Other Scout Groups

A group of Boy Scouts and leaders from the region are taking part in a jamboree this weekend at a scout camp in western Montgomery County, but there’s a twist to the jamboree part.

2011/10/15

(The side building that served as servants' quarters at Clieveden, in Germantown. Photos by Karin Phillips)

Philadelphia’s Historic ‘Cliveden’ Adds Servant Quarters To Public Tours

The servant quarters of an historic Philadelphia mansion are now open for public view, thanks to a good deed on the part of some local Boy Scouts.

2011/06/06

Civic Leaders Object To City’s Proposed Boy Scouts Deal

An ordinance has been introduced in Philadelphia City Council that would allow the local boy scouts chapter to buy their landmark headquarters building near the Franklin Institute. But a group of civic leaders remains against what they call a “sweat heart sale” to a group whose national council bans gays.

2010/12/17