
Community
This week restaurants are the focus along with fall scenery.
5 years ago
Listen 4:28Parkway encampment set to break down tents by the end of the week
Most of the camp’s now approximately 80 occupants will move into city shelters or shared housing until the agreed-upon permanent housing is available.
5 years ago
‘Don’t want you coming in’: Springfield, Bucks County, residents push back on proposed quarry
A second hearing on the proposed two-pit quarry in Springfield Township brought appeals, explanations and musical interludes — not necessarily in that order.
5 years ago
‘So hard to prove you exist’: Flawed fraud protections deny unemployment to millions
Efforts to prevent fraud in state unemployment systems are outdated, hurting millions of people with legitimate claims by causing lengthy and unnecessary delays.
5 years ago
Housing protest leaders, city agree to terms for disbanding Parkway encampment
The tent settlement will disband this week. The city and PHA will transfer 50 vacant properties into a community land trust established by encampment residents.
5 years ago
Earl Harvey, pioneering Black media entrepreneur, dies at 65
The publisher of The Black Professionals News and The Atlantic City Times is remembered as a major booster of Black business people in the Philly area.
5 years ago
Black-owned Philly bookstore creates civic intervention as Afrofuturist theater
In the face of a racist attack, the Black-owned bookstore turned to Afrofuturism to spark a public intervention.
5 years ago
Listen 1:41Facebook bans Holocaust denial, distortion posts
The decision comes amid a push by Holocaust survivors around the world over the summer who lent their voices to a campaign targeting Zuckerberg, urging him to take action.
5 years ago
Cash aid for renters? Philly revisits plan using lessons from COVID relief
In this model, the city funnels philanthropy to community-identified people in need.
5 years ago
This week: the rising rates of COVID in New Jersey, PA Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar on election prep, and saving Chester, Pennsylvania.
Air Date: October 12, 2020
Listen 49:42East Passyunk to redesign neighborhood logo, replacing stereotype of Indigenous person
The offensive image lacks historical accuracy.
5 years ago
Ahead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, activists in Philly suburbs call for more than marching
After a summer of protests, a group of racial justice activists in Montgomery County is pushing for changes to school curricula, among other demands.
5 years ago
Rookie WR Claypool scores 4 TDs, Steelers top Eagles 38-29
Fulgham caught 10 passes for 152 yards and a touchdown to give Philly's injury-ravaged receiving group a needed boost, but the Eagles couldn't pull off a second straight win.
5 years ago
University of Delaware suspends 19 over gathering limits
Newark currently limits gatherings to 12 people indoors, and 20 people outdoors, unless a permit has been obtained.
5 years ago