WHYY would like your input on our plans to expand local news coverage in northwest Philadelphia.
In our pilot phase, we’ll launch local news websites that will focus on East Falls, Manayunk, Roxborough, Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy, Germantown and West Oak Lane. We hope to have the websites up this fall.
We’re looking for reporters, photographers and [...]

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is calling for two new taxes to prevent city services from being cut. The mayor presented his budget outline to city council this morning. (3/4/10) In it, he’s asking council to approve a two-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks and a $300 yearly trash fee that combined would to raise about $185 [...]

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is scheduled to present his 2010-2011 budget to council on Thursday, March 4, 2010.While local newspapers are already reporting that he’ll likely propose soda and trash taxes, don’t expect him to propose any across the board tax hikes. Speaking to Marty Moss-Coane on Tuesday, Mayor Nutter said his hands are tied [...]

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Update 2/18/02 @ 5:00 p.m. FINAL REPORT released.
Common Ground Principles

PRINCIPLE 1 Every neighborhood should have a similar, widely known way to convene civic groups and concerned individuals for input into project review.

PRINCIPLE 2 All projects of a certain level of impact, whether as-of-right or requiring variances, would benefit from public input.

PRINCIPLE 3 When assessing a [...]

So much has happened since Michael Nutter was sworn in as Mayor of Philadelphia two years ago. Even for his supporters, it’s probably hard to remember the euphoria of that day. Finally, we thought, here’s a man who knew how city government worked but was also fed up with its inefficient ways.

In his inauguration speech [...]

Phil Goldsmith takes the hard line on Mayor Nutter saying that past Philadelphia mayors have accomplished more in their first two years. Gee, Phil, tell us what you really think. Goldsmith’s views are worth thinking about even if you don’t fully agree. This is after all a major global recession that has hit every level [...]

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says there are 26 percent fewer people living on the streets of the city. This year the number of homeless people living day-to-day on the streets was 395 compared to 532 in 2008. Project H.O.M.E. conducted the annual count and credits the city for providing more developing additional permanent housing for [...]

Former Pennsylvania House Speaker John Perzel turned himself in this morning in Harrisburg to face charges in a legislative corruption case. Perzel is one of 10 people connected to the House Republican caucus charged in a probe into the alleged misuse of public resources and workers for campaign purposes.

(updated: Grand Jury report links below)
Former state House Speaker John Perzel is among 10 people connected to the House Republican caucus who are being charged in a new phase of a legislative corruption probe.
Attorney General Tom Corbett says Perzel, a Philadelphia Republican, his former chief of staff Brian Preski and former House GOP counsel Brett [...]

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Update 2/3/10 @ 10:30 a.m. - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proposed a prisoner swap of Iranians in U.S. prisons for three American hikers being held in Tehran. Ahmadinejad said in a television interview Tuesday that talks were under way about possibly exchanging the hikers for Iranians in the United Sates. Samantha Topping, a New [...]