Patriotism has never meant pretending America is perfect. It has always meant believing the country is yours to improve ...

A new rail bridge on the Schuylkill River will connects one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods to jobs and green space. Will ...

The chair of the Bar Association Board served on a jury for the first time. Here’s why he’s glad he did, and why we all ...

Philly’s done right by democracy’s history past this year, but its future will be written by engaged citizens between now and ...

Ali Velshi is joined by Angelo Carusone of Media Matters and MS NOW legal analyst Melissa Murray to talk about threats to the ...

A future pulmonologist sees the confluence of the country’s 250th and extreme heat wave in Philadelphia as a sign to reverse course on climate change ...

A Point Breeze resident responds to her neighbor’s dismay over the reuse of a historic local church. The city’s zoning law?

How an ambitious, three-year-long freshwater mussels project transformed the smelly Manayunk Canal into a promising fishing ...

A State Senator from Northeast Philly argues Pennsylvania should fund scholarships to independent and faith-based private ...

Say what you will about former President Donald Trump’s approach to climate policy. If nothing else, his 2017 withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement spurred Mayor Kenney (and 61, and, eventually ...

Forty years ago, Tom Martinez, who died this week, was arrested in his Kensington home and charged with abetting counterfeit money laundering for one of the most violent and sophisticated hate groups ...

Reggie Jenkins was a social worker for over 15 years, a decade of which was with Housing Works doing advocacy and activism, job coaching, and handling outreach and intake. Nicknamed “The Advocate Guy, ...