Battling blight & vacant properties: Philadelphia's unwelcome real estate legacy November 15
Hour 1 Philadelphia’s vast tracts of vacant land and abandoned buildings – about 40,000 properties by one count – are costing the city, and taxpayers, a fortune. A new study (pdf) by Econsult and two partners found that [...]

Philadelphia's Stop and Frisk program November 15
Earlier this month, The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on behalf of eight men who they say were subject to illegal searches since the City of Philadelphia implemented its stop and frisk policy.  We’ll [...]