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On Mayo 4, Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval joined Andrew Zitcer, PhD, program director for Drexel University’s graduate program in urban strategy, in discussion for an ongoing event series, “Urban Strategy in the Present Tense,” sponsored by the Lindy Institute...

Lakshmi Iyer feels like she’s caught between two worlds. The 45-year-old financial service worker lives in Exton with her family, and has been watching with horror as COVID-19 cases have surged in her home country of India. Her Twitter feed is full of people back home...

A Philadelphia activist who’s been fighting SEPTA for years over a natural gas generator. A Southwestern Pennsylvania environmentalist who lives near ground zero of the state’s fracking boom. And an Erie union member who works for a rail manufacturing company that...

In the first few minutes of Joe Versus the Volcano, the 1990 surrealist rom-com, Tom Hanks clocks in for his job at an artificial testicle company, housed in a bleak, factorylike building overrun with flickering, audibly buzzing fluorescent tube lights that cast a...

From the U.S. Capitol to the halls of statehouses across the land, this week’s guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder case has reignited calls for police reform and for a new look at the way the United States conceives of law enforcement. And you can count...

As the verdict convicting Derek Chauvin was read in a Minneapolis courtroom, it was broadcast through a loudspeaker someone had set up outside Philadelphia’s City Hall. It flashed across phone screens and prompted honks from cars and shouts of “Black Lives Matter!”...

One of the main things Terriq Thompson remembers about Benjamin Franklin High School, where he graduated in 2019, is that it was hot. In particular, he remembers his first day of his senior year. It was an unusually warm Septiembre, and that day, it was 90 degrees...

When Nikil Saval won his primary election in 2020 against the establishment Philadelphia candidate Rep. Larry Farnese Jr he made history as the state’s first South Asian member of its legislature. But for him, the post and the history he made means little compared to...

(The Center Square) – COVID-19 was the top topic of discussion at Martes’s General Assembly hearing with the Department of Military & Veteran Affairs. Acting Adjutant General Mark Schindler told legislators all six veterans’ homes have implemented safety measures per...

Throughout the pandemic, the whole nation struggled with fulfilling their basic needs such as food and shelter. But one bright spot in Philadelphia was its ability to positively manage a pending eviction crisis through City Council initiatives that halted evictions...