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Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania staged an informational picket on Wednesday to demand fair contracts and organize union members in preparation for a potential strike. The Oct. 8 demonstration attracted over 500 workers in support of the...

Local politicians circulated a memo on Friday proposing legislation to block Penn from signing the White House’s preferential funding compact. Penn was one of nine schools approached on Wednesday with the agreement, which would require the University to adhere to...

Lieutenant Colonel George E. Hardy, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, passed away on Sept. 25 in Sarasota. He was 100 years old. Hardy was born in Philadelphia on June 8, 1925. While growing up in the City of Brotherly Love, he was exposed to...

(The Center Square) - With no budget and no viable long-term transit solutions in sight, the Senate recessed till Oct. 20 on Wednesday. Majority Leader Sen. Joe Pittman, R-Indiana, issued a statement, however, saying that the Philadelphia mass transit band-aid...

Are Democrats in the throes of a leadership crisis and what can younger voters and activists do about it? On September 10, two young progressives will issue a local call to action aimed at combating the social injustice and harmful inequities resulting from the Trump...

South Philly chef Phila Lorn received awards from local legislators after he earned the prestigious 2025 James Beard Award for Emerging Chef. The award is bestowed to only one chef a year “who displays exceptional talent, character and leadership ability, and who is...

HARRISBURG — Uber is trying to sell Pennsylvania lawmakers on a partial solution to the two-month budget impasse, telling them it supports taxing ride-hailing trips statewide to raise desperately needed revenue for public transit. But the pitch comes with a big...

Is our long regional nightmare about to be over? There are signs of compromise in Harrisburg. Governor Josh Shapiro floated a $49.9 billion compromise budget, a spending increase of 5 percent rather than the 8 percent he’d been seeking. And he and House Majority...

PHILADELPHIA — James Kpou was clutching his “senior citizen” fare card for this city’s vast network of buses, subways and light rail trains when he heard the announcement this week over the intercom at the 69th Street Transit Center.

Saval’s memo, titled “Solar-Ready Warehouses,” proposes requiring new warehouses and distribution centers to be constructed as “solar-ready”. It provides a tax credit for existing facilities to retrofit their infrastructure as “solar-ready,” due to the increasing...

Democratic Pennsylvania State Sen. Nikil Saval and Fox News contributor Liz Peek address Democrats embracing socialist ideas and the track record of socialist policies on 'The Cost of Socialism.'

“The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office plans to provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement training for one of its detectives,” LNP | LancasterOnline reported last week. “The DA’s office has applied to join ICE’s task force program, which allows approved...

Following a surge in reports from women alleging abuse by individuals posing as immigration agents, dozens of Democratic lawmakers are urging the Department of Homeland Security to reform enforcement protocols and require agents to clearly identify themselves. The...

Un grupo de personas se concentró frente a una oficina de U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) en Philadelphia para mostrar su apoyo a una propuesta dirigida por senadores estatales que exige a los agentes quitarse las máscaras durante las redadas...

Philadelphia Democratic officials are trying to send a clear message to ICE. Standing outside the Philadelphia field office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Center City on a hot Thursday morning, state lawmakers, immigration activists, and District...