The William Penn Foundation is expected announce a major grant to help implement the Action Plan for the Central Delaware later this morning. In a statement released over the weekend by the Mayor’s Office of Philadelphia, it states that the grant will provide funding for “the revitalization of the Delaware riverfront by creating a sustainable [...]

I was a little shocked to find out tonight that Philadelphia Will Do by Dan McQuade appears to have ended. The blog was operated on the Philadelphia Weekly website. There on the main page is McQuade’s final post.
And that’ll do it for the PW version of this blog. Thanks to the people who gave me [...]

Hey, check this story from the South Philly Review on the recent budget workshop held at St. Monica’s Catholic School at 16th and Porter streets. What’s interesting about this story is that it kind of suggests that we could see more of these citizen budget forums in the future. Check out the part I’ve underlined.
Citizen [...]

In the Inquirer today, after a couple years of delays as the Board of Revision of Taxes tinkered with their full fair actual value initiative, now its the mayor and City Council’s turn to push the change off for a while.  In the piece by Patrick Kerkstra, theories abound as to why the delay: (1) [...]

By Chris Satullo
They came in waves: firefighters in windbreakers, lawyers in Boyd’s best, activists with fliers in hand, homeless citizens wrapped in anxiety. They chanted, chatted, scowled, smiled, munched and waved to neighbors they hadn’t seen in a while.
They came to have their say, to defend what was precious to them. They got that chance, [...]

(NOTE: The next meeting of the Mural Arts Program’s This We Believe takes place TONIGHT, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at WHYY.  Click here to see dates, times and locations for the rest.)
WHYY is partnering with the Mural Arts Program in its This We Believe initiative (not to be confused with NPR’s and our This [...]

By Albert Yee
Watching 400+ seemingly impatient Philadelphians stand in silence for a minute honoring recently killed in the line of duty Office John Pawlowski was humbling. I didn’t think the niceties would last long, but they did, for the entire evening. In a stark change from the first two events (the first of which you [...]

Many, many thanks to our special guest contributors who did such fantastic jobs in summarizing, analyzing, questioning and photographing the four citizen budget workshops.  I was only able to make it to two of them and for the first one I spent the entire evening in the overflow group observing as Chris and Harris tried [...]

The final budget workshops was held in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia on Monday, Feb 23.  More than 400 turned out to participate in a budget workshop game that is meant to give Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter feedback on what city services are most important to residents. It was also a chance for people to [...]

It¹s Our City is grateful to the WHYY interns who helped out during the budget workshops. They included Monica Sellecchia from Temple University, Claire Gunner from Swarthmore College, and Jason Kleinman from Rutgers University. Because of his training and background, I wondered what Jason’s take would be on the workshops. He¹s working on his master’s [...]