By Mark Berkey-Gerard
How many trees do you have to plant in Fairmount Park to make up for the environmental impact of driving to work, heating your house, and taking an airplane trip to Florida for vacation?
Last week, the city released a Web-based tool called Erase Your Trace, which aims to get Philadelphia residents to consider [...]

By Carla Zambelli
I have lived out here on the Main Line since I was 11.  I remember, even as a child, several times when La Ronda was in play.
Lower Merion has had more than 30 years at least to save La Ronda if we all want to be honest about it.  (And note that Narberth seems like [...]

By Andrew Thompson
On Monday, Councilman Jack Kelly’s former chief of staff Chris Wright will face sentencing. Lest the fervor over Vince Fumo has made you forget, Wright was found guilty on corruption charges in late February after promising favorable legislation in exchange for free housing. Under the sentencing guidelines Wright faces around two-and-a-half years in [...]

By Andrew Thompson
Opponents to an alternative high school for troubled teens in the East Falls section of Philadelphia should not all be written off as NIMBY reactionaries.
A recent public hearing between the private school operator Delaware Valley High School (DVHS) and local residents brought out a host of concerns. In a recent Philadelphia [...]

By Dan Pohlig
This article in Wednesday’s Daily News about how the current state budget impasse is halting efforts to get a supermarket built in the city of Chester got me thinking about how government has embraced the “supermarket” as the be-all and end-all of improving public health in low income areas.
In fact, in the very [...]

By Dan Pohlig
Tom Skerritt had a great line in Top Gun that I’ve borrowed on many occasions when I need something other than “he went to the well once too often.” When breaking the news of Goose’s death to Maverick (and if you don’t know who these people are, c’mon on!) he says, “You fly [...]

By Mark Berkey-Gerard
When Congress passed the $787 billion stimulus package earlier this year, government officials promised to provide details of how the money is spent on a Web site called Recovery.gov.
“Every American can go online and see where and how we are spending every dime,” President Barack Obama said.
But what began as an effort in [...]

By Dan Pohlig
Today is truly a great day for Philadelphia.  No, I’m not talking about the acquisition of diminutive (not so much these days) Dominican fireballer (also not so much) Pedro Martinez by the hometown Phillies.  Nope.  I’m referring to the decision by the Nutter Administration and the Streets Department to turn one full lane [...]

By Mark Berkey-Gerard
How much are you willing to pay to read Philly.com? Two cents per article? $2.25 a week? Nothing?
That is the multimillion-dollar question the owners of the Philly.com, the Inquirer, and the Daily News are currently trying to answer.
In June, publisher Brian Tierney said that readers will have to pay for online news by [...]

By Mark Berkey-Gerard
Beginning tonight, area residents can attend a series of open houses to learn more about a proposed light rail line that would run from Glassboro to Camden.
However, the plan - which also calls for improvements to the Atlantic City Rail Line and express bus service along Routes 55 and 42 — is not entirely new. It is [...]