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David Cabello is the owner of Black and Mobile, a delivery business focused on connecting Black restaurant owners to customers. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Money
Broke in Philly

This 24-year-old entrepreneur is helping Black-owned restaurants survive coronavirus

Black and Mobile is an online delivery service that caters to Black-owned restaurants. The coronavirus shutdown has increased demand for its service.

6 years ago

Philly skyline
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Home desks won’t replace Philly’s high-rise office towers anytime soon, analysts say

Philadelphia’s office market might fare better post-coronavirus than those of other U.S. cities, CBRE analysts said in a new report.

6 years ago

An ambulance pulls out of the emergency entrance at Temple University Hospital.
Keystone Crossroads
Health

Frontline health care workers seek immunity from malpractice during COVID-19

The Pennsylvania Medical Society is asking Governor Tom Wolf to grant temporary immunity from malpractice claims to healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

6 years ago

Evelyn Coates stands on the porch of her home in West Oak Lane on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
Broke in Philly

Pandemic could lead to foreclosure surge but in Philly, help is just a call away

As job losses soar, Philadelphia homeowners risk foreclosure, but the city’s free housing assistance hotline can help them get mortgage relief.

6 years ago

Reading-based poet Anthony Orozco reads poems at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. (Courtesy of Natalie Kolb)
Keystone Crossroads
Arts & Entertainment

‘Life beaming through uncertainty and fear’: Pa. poets create community amid pandemic

With the coronavirus pandemic in full swing and a state shutdown in place, poets are turning to the internet to stay connected.

6 years ago

Listen 4:20
Playground designer Meghan Talarowski took this picture of her post-pandemic workspace, shared with her husband and two children (Meghan Talarowski)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Designing at a distance: Coronavirus is changing how Philly architects work

In Philadelphia, designers are responding to the coronavirus pandemic with new ideas — and urgent questions about engaging with community while public life is on hold.

6 years ago

Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey (Google Maps https://goo.gl/maps/QBnmSjENV1r)
Courts & Law

Sex abuse at N.J. women’s prison ‘an open secret,’ DOJ report says

Investigators slammed New Jersey for failing to curb rampant sexual abuse at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.

6 years ago

Powerback Rehabilitation in Center City Philadelphia. (Google Maps)
Health

Despite risk, Philly facility housing seniors will take COVID patients from hospitals

The elderly are among the most susceptible to coronavirus. So why are long-term care centers admitting COVID-19-positive patients?

6 years ago

Charlie Secrest, pictured about six years ago, died at a Delaware nursing home on April 6 after contracting coronavirus. (Courtesy of Terri Hansen)
Health

‘Like a wildfire you can’t stop’: COVID-19 ravages Delaware nursing homes

Many nursing home residents have conditions that make them especially vulnerable to coronavirus. They account for 24 of 43 deaths in the state so far.

6 years ago

Listen 1:59
Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia on North Broad St. (Google maps)
Health

Einstein Healthcare Network to furlough workers

The health system, which employs 8,000 workers, instructed leadership to choose which positions to temporarily cut.

6 years ago

People wearing a protective face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus take photos with the Rocky statue outfitted with mock surgical face mask at the Philadelphia Art Museum in Philadelphia, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Mail-in, absentee ballot applications surge for Pa. June primary

The Department of State said 89,000 absentee ballot requests have already been processed, with the June 2 primary still seven weeks away.

6 years ago

Plastic debris, including tampon applicators and straws, floats on top of sewage and stormwater at the Southwest water pollution control plant in Philadelphia. Water department officials recommend not flushing anything down the toilet except toilet paper. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

Sanitary wipes down the drain bring Philly Water Dept. and Aqua Pa. pain

Maybe it’s the shortage of toilet paper. Or maybe people don’t know so-called flushable wipes aren’t so sanitary when they create a ‘fatberg’ in the pipes.

6 years ago

In this March 21, 2020 file photo, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Politics & Policy

Fauci: ‘We’re not there yet’ on key steps to reopen economy

“We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we’re not there yet,” Fauci said in an interview with The Associated Press.

6 years ago

(New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife image)
Down the Shore
Courts & Law

Anglers face charges after found in possession of 66 undersized striped bass

Two men are facing are variety of charges after they were caught with dozens of undersized Atlantic striped bass, state officials announced. 

6 years ago

A person wearing a protective face mask and gloves as a precaution against the coronavirus walks through Love Park, in Philadelphia, Monday, April 13, 2020. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Coronavirus update: First person to die of COVID-19 in PA prisons was fighting for innocence

More than 20 local immigrant justice organizations held a press conference today, calling on city and state officials to protect all Pennsylvania workers and residents.

6 years ago

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