States rank counties on health, Pa. Health Department issues raw milk warning

Good morning, Feeders!

Surprise, surprise — Philadelphia is the least healthy county in Pennsylvania. Kevin McCorry will get a better sense of why and how counties in New Jersey and Delaware stacked up, too.

Lizz Fiedler will look into the ACLU’s claim that small police departments have been tracking cell phones. We’ll learn what the departments are doing exactly that’s got the ACLU paying attention.
Emma Jacobs will examine Philadelphia’s land bank proposal and the potential advantages and disadvantages it holds. We’ll check out how other cities have made similar proposals work (or not).

Emma will also catch us up on ConocoPhillips and the bids for Delaware County’s refineries.

Peter Crimmins is putting together a piece on what’s being referred to as the city’s underground tango scene, so keep an eye out for that story.

And Taunya English will have the latest on a warning from the Pennsylvania Health Department about raw milk and how that could affect New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sales.