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Advocacy coalition unveils ‘zero waste platform,’ challenges Philly mayoral candidates to commit

An agenda advocacy organizations launched Wednesday includes restructuring the city’s waste operations and rebuilding public trust around recycling.

3 years ago

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Jeannine Cook (right) owner of Harriett's Bookshop in Fishtown, and her sister Jasmaine Cook, lead a procession on East Girard Avenue
Books
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Philadelphia
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Billy Penn

Citywide specials and Harriett’s Bookshop star in Philly’s new tourism campaign

Leisure and business travel are expected to hit prepandemic levels by 2024.

3 years ago

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Housing
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

Pa. takes over troubled mortgage relief program from contractor after complaints, backlogs

In an abrupt change, Pennsylvania’s struggling mortgage relief program will no longer work with the private company originally hired to run it.

3 years ago

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Black Lives Matter
Policing
Social Justice

Impassioned calls for police reform at Tyre Nichols’ funeral

The family of Tyre Nichols plans to lay him to rest Wednesday, three weeks after he died following a brutal beating by Memphis police.

3 years ago

Vice President Harris (center) marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 6, 2022, in Selma, Ala., to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. (Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images)
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History
Race & Ethnicity
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It’s Black History Month. Here are 3 things to know about the annual celebration

Here are three things to know about Black History Month.

3 years ago

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Kids
Philadelphia
Sports

76ers award Christy Rec Center kids with shopping spree for receiving good grades

Sixers player Montrezl Harrell made an appearance to help the kids pick out some cool kicks and threads.

3 years ago

Rowhomes are shown from across the street.
PlanPhilly
Government
Housing
Philadelphia

Philly rolls out new rental assistance program to resolve landlord-tenant disputes

Philadelphia launches a new financial assistance program to help resolve landlord-tenant disputes over back rent before they become the basis of an eviction filing.

3 years ago

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NPR
Food & Drink
Pennsylvania

Bob Born, the ‘Father of Peeps’ and Hot Tamale candies, has died

Born, a candy company executive known as the "Father of Peeps" for mechanizing the process to make marshmallow chicks, has died. He was 98.

3 years ago

A person speaks at a podium in a SEPTA subway station.
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Public Spaces
Transportation

SEPTA highlights signs of human trafficking in new campaign

The transit agency is adding information about trafficking on digital signage in addition to static signs being posted in bus depots.

3 years ago

Students walk out of Overbrook High School.
Gun Violence
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Drive-by shooting strikes student on way to Overbrook High School

The student, who is in stable condition, was shot three times in the arm and the thigh, according to a district spokesperson.

3 years ago

Linn's cleaners in South Philadelphia has been keeping the Eagles looking fresh on game day for a decade or so, and this week is no different. (6abc)
Business
Philadelphia
Sports

South Philadelphia cleaners responsible for keeping team’s jerseys game day ready

Joe Lattanzio and his brother Vince co-own the business on South 15th Street.

3 years ago

Loch Nairn
Outdoors
Pennsylvania
Public Spaces

New Garden Township acquires land for 106-acre public park in Chester County

New Garden Township has acquired 106-acres of land, once the site of the Loch Nairn Golf Club, for use as a passive-recreation park.

3 years ago

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Damaged ATM on the street corner.
Crime
Philadelphia
Public Safety
6abc

ATM explodes in another theft attempt in Philadelphia

Police found the ATM blown up on the sidewalk.

3 years ago

Police in Bloomfield, N.J. are looking for the suspect who hurled a Molotov cocktail at the entrance of a synagogue early Sunday morning
NPR
Crime
New Jersey
Religion

A community is on edge after a man threw a Molotov cocktail at a New Jersey synagogue

Authorities are searching for the suspect who threw a Molotov cocktail at a New Jersey synagogue over the weekend, an incident that caused no damage but rattled the community

3 years ago

Fans pour onto North Broad Street, with many heading toward City Hall. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

Photos from the party on Broad Street as the Eagles head to Super Bowl LVII

People danced, drumlines marched — and yes, poles were climbed.

3 years ago

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