PlanPhilly Archive
What voting feels like when you are 18 in 2020
Zipporah Mooney, an 18-year-old Philadelphian, just voted in her first election. It felt like submitting an application for adulthood.
4 years ago
Justice Department to dispatch election monitors to Philadelphia, other jurisdictions
Philadelphia is among 43 jurisdictions where DOJ staff will monitor voting on Election Day.
4 years ago
The Spanish-language voice of SEPTA is voting for president for the first time
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.
4 years ago
Eyes on the Street
Dear Millennial and Gen Z voters, your ballot matters
The Millennial and Gen Z voter bloc is poised to overtake Baby Boomers in power at the polls.
4 years ago
After Wallace shooting, Philly police seek $14 million for Tasers while overtime costs pile up
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.
4 years ago
Philly City Council passes ban on use of tear gas, rubber bullets on protesters
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.
4 years ago
Trump is driving Philly’s Black immigrants to vote like never before
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.
5 years ago
Eyes on the Street
‘The war was at our door’: Saj and Tommy Blackwell on living through West Philly uprisings
Thomas Blackwell alleges he was beaten by police during a Monday protest of the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
5 years ago
Listen 5:18
Fix roads, fund transit: 5 Philly commuters share their White House wish list
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.
5 years ago
‘2 people with a gun should not be leading a response’: Philly Council calls for police reform
City Councilmembers said that legislative measures long in the works would advance reform efforts in the wake of Wallace’s death by police gunfire.
5 years ago
Grieving Walter Wallace Jr. and seeking justice, West Philly wonders what’s next
West Philadelphians described their own efforts to de-escalate conflicts and heal their community as they mourned the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
5 years ago
Listen 1:06
Police shooting interrupts hearing on proposed police oversight commission
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.
5 years ago
‘I was by myself’: Parkway encampment down to last few residents
People leaving the protest encampment on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway are moving to new homes, some of them squats elsewhere in the city.
5 years ago
9 rehabbed homes and a test of radical housing activism are coming to this block
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.
5 years ago
Listen 1:45
Fired SEPTA police sergeant charged with assault for alleged baton beating of protesters
A former SEPTA police officer is facing multiple assault charges for allegedly bashing two protesters with a baton during protests of police violence in May.
5 years ago