The program Tight Times, Tough Choices: The Pennsylvania State Budget airs Thursday, May 7 at 9 p.m. on our digital TV channel Y-Info. (Comcast 258, FiOS 473)
The program is designed to give citizens a stronger understanding of the current budget crisis and encourage more citizen involvement in the decisions that are about to be made [...]

The City of Philadelphia is facing a projected $1billion budget gap over the next five years. The mayor and his top budget team have sought out public input over the past couple of months and presented the administration’s budget proposal to city council. One man who has been in the middle of all of this [...]

In the latest It’s Our City TV interview, we get an update on reforms underway in Philadelphia’s Department of Health and Human Services. The overhaul was ordered by our guest Anne Marie Ambrose following the indictment of two DHS social workers and others related to the death of Danieal Kelly.  This interview was recorded on [...]

Last night WHYY aired the fifth It’s Our City TV program profiling city leaders. Our guest was the city’s Managing Director Camille Barnett who is introducing the new 311 phone system which is designed to provide quicker answers for the public. In addition, she’s added the PhillyStat program which is designed to help set performance [...]

Last night WHYY broadcast the fourth monthly episode of It’s Our City’s TV series featuring top city administration officials. This was a special broadcast due to the urgent nature of global economic crisis that is now taking its toll on municipalities. In this one-hour special Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and his Finance Director Rob Dubow [...]

It’s Our City broadcast its 3rd TV program last night on WHYY-TV.  In case you missed it, we’ve posted the links to the video and to an audio file. The program featured Arlene Ackerman, the Superintendent of the Philadelphia School District an with Lori Shorr, the Chief Education Officer for Mayor Michael Nutter. The two [...]

This interview marks the beginning of It’s Our City’s monthly sit down interviews with top city officials. The interviews will appear both on the website and later on TV12. In our first installment, veteran Philadelphia journalist Tom Ferrick spends an hour with Commissioner Ramsey about how his anti-crime plan is going.

In the interview moderated by Dave Davies a Senior Writer for The Philadelphia Daily News, Mayor Nutter said shootings and homicides are down 25% from this time last year. He credited the City’s use of crime mapping that has helped identify where 65% most of the major crimes are taking place in the city and [...]