Newsroom
Organizations, including the Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia, call on Mayor Kenney to revamp Washington Ave.
Double parking, potholes, and car accidents are what makes up Washington Avenue in South Philly right now. Residents are calling on public officials to change that concept. On Thursday, June 2, 2022, local residents and group organizations in South Philadelphia called...
Chaos and terror on South Street: Multiple gunmen fired into crowds on ‘a dark day for Philadelphia’
Multiple gunmen shot into crowds gathered on South Street late Saturday night, killing three people, wounding 11, and bringing chaos and terror to one of Philadelphia’s most popular nightlife districts. Police were still piecing together on Sunday what had happened...
Senators Collett & Saval Unveil Legislation to Fight Anti-Asian Discrimination with More Robust Education
Harrisburg, Pa. − May 31, 2022 − In an effort to improve education and fight the recent rise in bias crimes against people of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) descent in the Commonwealth, State Senators Maria Collett (D12-Montgomery/Bucks) and Nikil...
Advocates Call For AAPI Curriculum In Pennsylvania Classrooms
HARRISBURG, PA — Advocates from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community descended upon the Pennsylvania capitol recently to call for greater AAPI education in schools as a counter to a growing rise in anti-Asian sentiment in the nation. The Pennsylvania...
Senator Nikil Saval to Hold Rally Calling for Passage of Bipartisan Whole-Home Repairs Act
Philadelphia, PA − May 24, 2022 − Today, Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia County) held a rally attended by more than 200 housing and energy advocates, community leaders, Pennsylvania residents, and Democrat and Republican legislators from the General Assembly to...
Fight blight with Whole Home Repairs | Editorial
Among Pennsylvania’s many distinctions, the commonwealth has one of the nation’s oldest housing stocks — half of all homes in the state were built before 1959. These old buildings are brimming with architectural character, but redbrick rowhomes and majestic Victorians...
Senate Democrats Call on Republicans to Immediately Prioritize Gun Violence Prevention Legislation and Appropriations
HARRISBURG – May 25, 2022 – Today, Pennsylvania Senate Democrats wrote the following letter to Republican leaders in response to rampant gun violence and mass shootings that have become too common in the United States. Just this year, 215 mass shootings have...
New Study Shows More Than Three-Quarters of PA Voters Support Bipartisan Whole-Home Repairs Act
Philadelphia, PA − May 24, 2022 − Today, Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia County) held a rally attended by more than 200 housing and energy advocates, community leaders, Pennsylvania residents, and Democrat and Republican legislators from the General Assembly...
Senator Calls for the Passage of the Whole-Home Repairs Act
Pass the Whole-Home Repairs Act: Rally at Our Capitol
Pennsylvania Voters Across Parties Support Public Investments for Housing Repairs
Pennsylvania has some of the oldest stock of housing in the country. For years, weather damage, unreliable heating, and severe structural inadequacies have led to housing insecurity and expensive home repairs. New polling by Data for Progress and People’s Action shows...
Philly officials support GOP bike lane protection bill
Bell-ringing in Philadelphia Friday morning wasn’t coming from Citizen’s Bank Park or the Constitution Center but from a peloton riding into Dilworth Park outside City Hall. Several city and state officials rode into a press conference with the Bicycle Coalition of...
Lawmakers call for teaching more AAPI history in schools
HARRISBURG, Pa. — As a child growing up in the Philly suburbs, Serena Nguyễn was ashamed of her last name. “It was a strange, unfamiliar, hard-to-pronounce sound connecting me to a land distant in time and space. It seemed un-American,” said Nguyễn, who has since...
The Lawmaker Pushing for a State Fund to Help Pay for Home Repairs
A proposed bill in Pennsylvania would use the power and budget of the state government to help homeowners and small-time landlords make critical repairs to their properties, in an effort to address the growing challenges of housing affordability and climate change....
Philly spent a decade reconnecting neighborhoods to the waterfront. Widening I-95 is repeating past mistakes.
Over the last decade, something miraculous has been happening in the central Philadelphia neighborhoods that border the Great Wall of I-95. Guided by a smart master plan, the agency that manages the Delaware waterfront has helped transform its old piers and industrial...
Hughes, Fiedler, Rally with Educators for Full School Funding
PHILADELPHIA, PA — With Pennsylvania sitting on more than $8 billion in excess revenue, and a dismal national ranking for school equity, state Sen. Vincent Hughes and Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler held a pre-budget school funding rally in South Philadelphia on Friday to call...
Senator Nikil Saval Demands Full Funding for PA Public Schools
Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
Last week, I had the surreal experience of reading my way through a stack of high-toned books about liberalism when news trickled out that a conservative majority on the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade. Legal scholars were swift to denounce what...
How have Philly and PA public officials reacted to the Roe v. Wade leak?
On Monday, May 2, Politico leaked a draft of the U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion, which indicated that the nation’s highest court will most likely vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling which guaranteed the right to abortion in the nation for...
Seek ways to fight blight together
Imagine this: you’ve worked tirelessly over the years to be able to purchase an older home. You’ve spent countless hours and thousands of dollars to improve it. That was my parents’ dream in Tamaqua in 1965 when they first purchased a 1917 “half a double” and my...