Aaron Moselle covers housing and community development for WHYY’s PlanPhilly, filing stories for both radio and web. He’s a city native and calls South Philadelphia home.
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With new sentence, Philly ‘juvenile lifer’ could gain freedom after nearly 40 years
For a few moments on Monday, the hallway outside Philadelphia Common Pleas Courtroom 1105 became the site of a family powwow. The subject ...
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Retrial of Philly monsignor may wait until ’18
The Philadelphia Courts website still lists Tuesday as the start of Monsignor William Lynn’s retrial, but an unresolved defense app ...
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Advocates for poor: Trump budget plan will make dire situation even worse
Life could soon become harder for tens of thousands of low-income residents in the Delaware Valley. President Donald Trump’s ...
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Phila. Housing Authority buys shuttered high school in bid to transform the neighborhood
The Philadelphia Housing Authority now owns the former home of Roberts Vaux High School, a hulking building in North Philadelphia shutter ...
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Pa. may seal criminal records on non-violent misdemeanor convictions
Pennsylvania lawmakers have quietly reintroduced a bill that would make it simpler for residents to seal certain parts of their crim ...
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Watchdog groups maintain Philadelphia City Commissioners shouldn’t oversee some elections
Government watchdogs Philadelphia 3.0 and The Committee of Seventy aren’t giving up on their legal push to limit how often the Phil ...
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Dozens of eighth-graders hurt as Philly bus is hit, overturns in Maryland
A tour bus carrying more than two dozen Philadelphia eighth-graders flipped over on I-95 Monday morning after a car crashed into it rough ...
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Philadelphia commissioners will monitor primary election after all
A Pennsylvania state judge has rejected an effort to stop the Philadelphia city commissioners from overseeing Tuesday’s primary ele ...
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Decision on whether commissioners can oversee Philly primary going down to the wire
It’s now up to a Pennsylvania state judge to decide whether the Philadelphia city commissioners can oversee Tuesday’s primary electio ...
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Interlude from tedium, toll of homelessness awaits at Broad Street Ministry dance class
It’s Friday afternoon. Dance time at Broad Street Ministry in Center City Philadelphia. Inside the church’s spacious s ...
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Philly controller candidates spar in Democratic debate
Alan Butkovitz and Rebecca Rhynhart, the two Democrats running for Philadelphia city controller, met Tuesday night in Center City for a w ...
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Forum focuses on challenges, possibilities former offenders encounter in Philadelphia
Reuben Jones is a humble man, but talking to him, you know he’s proud of how far he’s come since his release from prison in 2 ...
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