Government Accountability

Mayor Kenney asked his top doctor to step down after learning he mishandled remains of MOVE bombing victims.

May 13, the day of the announcement of Farley’s resignation, which is effective immediately, is the 36th anniversary of the MOVE bombing.

Despite claims of transparency, only 18 lawmakers in the 203-member House and 11 in the 50-member Senate post some level of financial information today.

The state’s response to the economic crisis has at times been frustrating to residents, who’ve struggled to get help processing their claims.

A campaign event for Jake Corman, the top Republican in the state Senate, is being organized by a company that has cornered the market on a political practice he wants to end.

The Pa. Supreme Court announced that it had appointed Mark Nordenberg to the Legislative Reapportionment Commission.

Urban anthropologist and community leader Bill McKinney charts the history of Kensington and signs of a new path forward.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will pick the chair of a powerful redistricting panel after the General Assembly’s top leaders failed to agree.

A controversial city contract that outsourced sheriff sales to a private online auction house was issued in violation of Philadelphia's government contracting laws.

A state department said a licensing program with financial and safety requirements for recovery homes will save lives, but advocates are pushing back on the added costs.

Ex-Wilmington Councilman Bill Freeborn is charged with stealing from the city’s Land Bank. Ex-state Rep. Rebecca Walker is charged with falsifying records.

Michael Capriglione was elected despite lying about crashing his police cruiser into another police vehicle in 2018, then having video surveillance tape erased.

The PPD plans to ask City Hall for more money for Tasers. The department began buying the stun devices after an officer fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr.

Free Press, WHYY, and Reclaim Philadelphia convened community leaders on the frontline of the gun violence crisis to explore funding what works and defunding what doesn’t.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz joins a growing list of politicians from both parties — almost exclusively men — who are defying the traditional response to controversy.