PlanPhilly Archive

In a year defined by pandemic, movements against racial injustice and the general defiance of norms, Philadelphia showed out on Election Day.

Zipporah Mooney, an 18-year-old Philadelphian, just voted in her first election. It felt like submitting an application for adulthood.

Philadelphia is among 43 jurisdictions where DOJ staff will monitor voting on Election Day.

You probably don’t recognize Elvira Méndez by name, but you know her voice if you ride SEPTA .This Election Day marks her first presidential ballot.

The Millennial and Gen Z voter bloc is poised to overtake Baby Boomers in power at the polls.

Days after officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr., the Philadelphia Police Department is seeking $14 million in new funding to equip thousands of officers with Tasers.

The legislation advanced just days after police officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr., a Black West Philadelphia man whose death has sparked days of protest.

Trump called Haiti and African nations ‘shithole countries’ and made immigrants a public enemy. Philadelphia’s Black immigrants say they are motivated to vote him out.

Thomas Blackwell alleges he was beaten by police during a Monday protest of the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.

The next president will make calls that shape the future of Philly’s beleaguered transportation system. Here’s what local riders need from the White House.

City Councilmembers said that legislative measures long in the works would advance reform efforts in the wake of Wallace’s death by police gunfire.

West Philadelphians described their own efforts to de-escalate conflicts and heal their community as they mourned the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.

As people began protesting another Black man’s death at the hands of police, Council was discussing a ballot measure meant to create more police oversight.

People leaving the protest encampment on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway are moving to new homes, some of them squats elsewhere in the city.

Agency officials hope the new residents will occupy the homes by the end of the year — a fast timeline warranted by a growing affordability crisis compounded by the pandemic.