Superintendent: $216 Million Needed to Prevent Schools Going from “Insufficient to Just Empty Shells”
The Philly Tribune reports on the grave situation still facing Philadelphia schools, as highlighted by Superintendent William Hite. Hite noted…
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With “Take Back the Night”, Survivors Take Back Power and Find Community
By Dustin Slaughter and Joanne Stocker A young African-American woman tearfully steps up to the microphone. She exhales slowly. “I…
One Day After #myNYPD, Is Mayor Nutter Tempting Fate with #6abcaskthemayor?
It doesn’t have the same punch, but for the second day in a row, a public official or agency has…
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…
Federal Authorities in Philadelphia Attempt to Hamstring Return of Marijuana Protest
With the return of Smokedown Prohibition scheduled for April 20, Easter Sunday, at Independence Mall, two moves by Federal authorities…
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