The SRC’s Accountability Double Standard
By Jack Grauer. Reposted from jackgrauer.com. “A-ccount-a-bility.” This is the politician’s mating call. The word echoes from podium to podium…
Curated Reporting
Outside Spenders Make Final Push To Win Congress
By John Light This post first published on BillMoyers.com. Outside spenders have poured more than $170 million into contests for…
‘Truth and Reconciliation’ Through Police Transparency in the Black Lives Matter Era
A remarkable series of transparency victories in policing, involving (in part) making civilian complaints against police available to the public,…
DA Falsely Claims Infamous Narcotics Officer Not Making Drug Arrests
Sergeant Michael Spicer, who was charged but later acquitted by federal authorities of filing false police reports, beating up drug…
What you need to know about Right to Know
Thomas Jefferson once wrote that “an enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic.” Pennsylvanians have clearly…
NEWSWORKS: Philly relaxes permit restrictions for DNC protesters
The City of Philadelphia has rescinded its previous restrictions on marches in Center City during the DNC. The Poor People’s…
WHYY: Will Philadelphia respect decades-old restriction on police spying at the DNC?
Author and activist Kris Hermes talks with WHYY about a decades-old restriction on Philadelphia police infiltration of political groups, and…
Education Department Recommends Killing Accreditor of For-profit Colleges
By Annie Waldman ProPublica, June 15, 2016, 12:38 p.m. A much-criticized college accreditor that regulates hundreds of for-profit schools should…
Why the ACLU is fighting Philly’s new DNC protest restrictions
Pennsylvania ACLU emails obtained by Billy Penn last night reveal that the Kenney administration has tightened the rules for protesting during the…
Gun researchers see a public health emergency in Orlando mass shooting. Here’s why.
By Sandro Galea, Boston University and Ziming Xuan, Boston University Editor’s note (The Conversation): We turned to two public health…
The Philly Declaration 