DA’s fight against innocence claim may have left dangerous gunman on street
By Daniel Denvir (City Paper) – Last October, a Philadelphia judge ordered a new trial for Eugene Gilyard and Lance…
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Overlooked No More: How Temple Expansion Will Impact Community
By Joseph Cranney and Evan Cross (Axis Philly) Temple University is taking steps to make sure it gets more attention….
A Song for Philly, Because In Spite of Everything Spring is Here Again
By Kenneth Lipp By the Schuylkill, unfiltered this I was four lenses wide-eyed at least three miles, bare below the…
Philly Police Facing Recruitment Problems, Especially of African American Officers
Philadelphia’s Police Department has been on a year-long recruitment drive – you may have seen the billboards around the city…
Thomas Jefferson University Researchers Hope to Fight Ebola Using Rabies Vaccine
Medical researchers in Philadelphia, part of the international effort to develop a vaccine for the Ebola virus, have “piggybacked” on…
Council Candidate to Call for Halting City Funds to South Philly Intelligence Center
by Kenneth Lipp and Dustin Slaughter Full disclosure: Kenneth Lipp is serving as Mr. Poe’s campaign advisor. Dustin Slaughter was…
Two Sentences Speak Volumes About Race and Pot Arrests in Philly
At the last public hearing of the Philadelphia City Council regarding the now tabled bill 140001-A, a measure sponsored by…
Officials: Philadelphia’s “All-Hazards” Fusion Center Did Not Monitor Train Derailment, Oil Spill
By Dustin Slaughter and Kenneth Lipp Two serious calamities struck the Delaware Valley region in January. On January 20th, a…
Rome trip renews questions on Nutter’s frequent travels
By Claudia Vargas Mayor Nutter’s recent trip to Rome, where he posed with tourists, spoke with the pope, and slept…
As Philly’s violent crime drops, mapping the neighborhoods where it doesn’t
From Newsworks: For a long time, the Philadelphia Police Department rarely had good news to share. That’s changed. From…
The Philly Declaration 