The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruling strengthens Sugarhouse Casino’s ability to build on the Delaware River front in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Daily News blog Clout reports that the Court determined that Mayor Michael Nutter was wrong in his attempt to revoke riparian rights previously granted by the City under Mayor John Street’s administration. The blog [...]

This morning, my husband and I woke up to feeling the house vibrate in sync with the cacophonous sound of a jackhammer. The time was just before 7 am. It turns out that the culprit of our neighborhood’s interrupted sleep was Philadelphia Gas Works or PGW, which is laying a new gas main on the next block up. It got me thinking: Does the city have a policy about what time construction can start? [...]

Foxwoods could still move. That’s the take-away message Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter gave to the press this afternoon. But I’m not so sure we’re in a dramatically different place than we were before today’s Gov/Foxwoods meeting. Take a look at the bolded words in a carefully worded statement released this [...]

The biggest concern for voters in last year’s Philadelphia mayoral election was crime. It was a year in which 264 people were murdered. Since that time, residents here have a new mayor and a new police commissioner. A lot of promises were made by the two, including reducing the number of homicides by [...]

As we await the results of today’s meeting between Gov. Ed Rendell and Foxwoods, It’s Our City checked in with Sugarhouse to see when its officials will meet with the gov…

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is scheduled to meet today with representatives of Foxwoods Casino, which plans to build a casino in South Philadelphia along the riverfront. [...]

We invited Diana Lind, editor in chief for the Next American City, to weigh in about what role urban issues have in this year’s presidential race. The Next American City is a national quarterly magazine published here in Philadelphia.
By: Diana Lind
Back in the spring, when Pennsylvania’s primary seemed poised to shift the balance in the [...]

Five residents of the now burned out Riverwalk at the Millennium complex in Conshohocken are suing the developer, its builder, the property manager, and a subcontractor over last week’s fire. The class-action suit alleges that the parties were careless and did not take the proper safety precautions at the construction site.

Yesterday, prosecutors revealed a bit of their strategy in a request to the judge for permission to use “leading questions” on any hostile witness they call up.

A City Council bill expected to be introduced next month in Philadelphia would make it illegal to talk or text on a cell phone while driving.