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Cars and trucks parked in the bike lanes on Spruce and Pine streets force cyclists to take risky dodges into traffic.
PlanPhilly
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Streets & Roads
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Philadelphia Parking Authority to start patrolling bike lanes for illegally parked cars

The Philadelphia Parking Authority approved a proposal to put five enforcement officers on bikes to ticket drivers parked illegally in bike lanes.

4 years ago

Kimberly Kamara and her husband Kesselle, pictured with Council member Kenyatta Johnson, lost their 23-year-old son Niam Johnson-Tate to gun violence in 2017. (Aaron Moselle, WHYY)
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‘Please put the guns down’: Families of murder victims call for peace outside City Hall

“Please put the guns down. Start loving on one another,” pleaded Cheryl Pedro during the Call For Justice rally organized by City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson.

4 years ago

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Delaware County Libraries is seeking community input on its future plans

The system is building a “strategic plan for the future” and is asking the public to fill out a brief survey to help shape it.

4 years ago

Billy Penn reporter Layla A. Jones (moderator) and panelists Valencia 'Coach V' Peterson, Laura Vega, and Mustafa Clement (Danya Henninger / Billy Penn)
Crime
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Billy Penn

Philadelphia youth anti-violence efforts lack coordination at city level, panelists say

Panelists at a community conversation push for more coordination from the city.

4 years ago

Created in 2018, the Our Black Girls website centers the stories of missing Black girls and women. (ourblackgirls.com/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
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Race & Ethnicity

Tens of thousands of Black women vanish each year. This website tells their stories

Tens of thousands of Black girls and women go missing every year. Last year, that figure was nearly 100,000. Yet their cases hardly ever grab national headlines.

4 years ago

Gritty shoots silly string at a Flyers game
Philadelphia
Sports

‘It my day’: Gritty to mark 3rd birthday with motorcycle joyride around Philly

The Flyers’ mascot will celebrate Friday with a commemorative motorcycle ride that includes stops at iconic Philly hotspots.

4 years ago

Primates are a common design element (June Armstrong)
Billy Penn

An inventory of cannabis packaging discovered around Philadelphia

Once you start noticing them, you’ll see the colorful bags everywhere.

4 years ago

File photo: A group of kids from the Southwest Philadelphia Healthnastics program, ages 3-18, held signs at a protest demanding the Kenney administration do more to address gun violence in the city on Aug. 4, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Preventing gun violence with focused deterrence

Homicides and fatal shootings in Chester, PA have been cut in half since October 2020. How on earth did they do it?

Air Date: September 24, 2021 10:00 am

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Men work on fishing ships at Dockside Packing in Atlantic City, N.J. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Energy
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Jersey Shore’s fishing industry wonders: Can it coexist with planned massive wind farms?

The wind farms would occupy some of the most fertile fishing grounds in the nation, prompting a growing battle between fisheries and wind power.

4 years ago

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NPR
Housing
Race & Ethnicity
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Black and Latino homeowners are about twice as likely as whites to get low appraisals

It's the latest example of racial inequities in the housing sector, a well-documented phenomenon that has led to lower rates of homeownership among Black and Latino families.

4 years ago

The Temple Bagel Hut before and after.
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
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Billy Penn

Temple Bagel Hut’s charming red-and-white awnings were replaced with dull, flat gray

Another Philly building with character succumbs to a standard look.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney posed with delegates from FIFA and United States Soccer at Lincoln Financial Field on September 22, 2021. Philadelphia is a candidate city to host the 2026 World Cup. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Sports

World Cup 2026: Philly’s ‘passion’ and natural turf earn points from FIFA

International soccer evaluators came to Philadelphia to review the bid the city has made to host World Cup matches in 2026.

4 years ago

Philadelphia 76ers' fans watch the final minutes of Game 7 in a second-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks, Sunday, June 20, 2021, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Philadelphia
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Billy Penn

Philly’s best boos: A recent history of local sports fan disapproval

We’re famous for it, might as well embrace it. (Compiled in honor of Ben Simmons.)

4 years ago

SEPTA surveillance video shows what appears to be forceful blows of a SEPTA revenue agent knocking a man to his feet. (6abc)
Philadelphia
Policing
Transportation
6ABC

SEPTA investigating after employee punches a man at Frankford Transportation Center

SEPTA officials say the attack occurred Monday around 9:30 a.m.

4 years ago

Cars are seen in a flooded area of Philly
Environment
Public Safety
Sustainability

PECO sets up $250K storm recovery fund for Pa. communities affected by Ida

The company will provide $100,000 to the American Red Cross Southeastern Pennsylvania and Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia for essential needs.

4 years ago

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