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- • 100%www.inquirer.com Philadelphia police officers have fatally shot 5 dogs since the start of 2024, just as many as they did all last year
In two recent shootings, humans were also wounded, including a dog owner struck by a bullet fragment, and a police sergeant bitten by a pit bull that had killed a smaller dog.
- • 100%whyy.org After months of public feedback and controversy, Philly's Mütter Museum opens new exhibition
The new exhibit is “intentionally rough around the edges” and asks for more feedback.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com This Philly school got White House attention for its innovative model. Now, its existence is threatened.
“We serve some of the most marginalized students, and we’re doing it much more poorly now,” said the Workshop School's former principal, who's still affiliated with the school through its nonprofit.
- whyy.org Sixth-grade teacher was the inspiration for Quinta Brunson’s ‘Abbott Elementary’
“Abbott Elementary" creator Quinta Brunson studied under Joyce Abbott in the sixth grade. Abbott has now been honored with a portrait and a renamed administrative office.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Philly lawmakers want to hear from city workers about Mayor Parker’s return-to-office policy
City Council on Thursday passed legislation to hold hearings on the city’s hybrid work capabilities. Lawmakers also passed legislation aimed at probing the process by which people seek drug treatment.
- • 100%phillyabc.org Monday May 27th: Letter-writing for Ant Smith
Join us on Monday May 27th at 6:30pm at Wooden Shoe Books to write letters to Philadelphia’s own Ant Smith. Ant is a high school social studies teacher in North Philly, an activist with organizations including Food Not Bombs Solidarity and Philly for REAL Justice, and a beloved community member curr...
- • 100%theconversation.com What Philadelphians need to know about the city’s 7,000-camera surveillance system
Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com SEPTA resumes Broad Street Line service after a woman fell, died on the tracks
The incident occurred at SEPTA's Lombard-South Station as a train was pulling in.
- whyy.org After years of delays, SEPTA approves Bus Revolution
Portions of the new network, which trims the number of routes from 125 to 106, will launch on June 1, 2025, and continue through the fall.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Quinta Brunson’s West Philly elementary school honors Abbott’s namesake with portraits and an office renaming
Joyce Abbott, who retired from Andrew Hamilton shortly after the show premiered, has now earned a place as “one of the favorite daughters of Philadelphia,” Tony B. Watlington Sr. said Wednesday.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Philly City Council advances bill to block Parker administration addiction facility in Fairmount
The bill would prohibit the city from renewing its lease at the facility, which is up in 2026. The Parker administration opposes the legislation.
- • 100%whyy.org Philly charter change proposal would mean more funding for affordable housing
The measure looks to close a loophole that has frustrated housing advocates for years.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com The Frank Rizzo statue could soon be returned to the group that donated it to the city, lawyer says
The statue has been in city storage since 2020.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Drexel ignore call to disband as arrests nationwide surpass 3,000
whyy.org Drexel threatens to clear encampment as arrests linked to Israel-Hamas war protests exceed 3,000Drexel planned a “phased return” to normal operations on Tuesday, with labs and some other classes to be held in person and lecture classes to stay remote.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Philly stadium owners don’t pay property taxes. Here’s what that means for the Sixers’ arena proposal.
The 76ers are proposing to give the land to the city, and lease it back from the municipal government. That would make the property exempt from real estate taxes that fund city services and schools.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Philly DA Larry Krasner declined to charge four UPenn protesters
The DA said evidence submitted by the university’s police force did not support the notion that those demonstrators had behaved criminally.
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No more work from home: Mayor Parker issues return to office order for thousands of city employees
whyy.org Back to the office: Mayor Parker ends work-from-home for thousands of city workersIt’s the end of the pandemic-era policy that allowed thousands of Philadelphia city employees to work from home for at least part of their work week.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Soon to close, Cabrini University holds final commencement
"Know that your home still exists," Kylie McDevitt Kelce told graduates. "It’s around you, living inside of every one who came along and fell in love with this place."
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Over 24 hours, 19 demonstrators at Penn taken into custody after attempting to seize a campus building, while a new encampment goes up at Drexel
The brief encampment inside Penn's Fisher-Bennett Hall came one week after police disbanded another encampment. Seven remained in custody, including one for allegedly assaulting a police officer.
- whyy.org Philly keeps its big city ranking, but Sun Belt cities are catching up
Philadelphia kept its ranking despite losing 50,000 residents during the pandemic, but population growth in San Antonio could outpace it someday.
- billypenn.com Italian Market Festival: Grease pole watching advice from a former champion
Frankie Longo, a legend of the South Philly competition, offers advice on how to best view the climb.
- • 100%billypenn.com Hundreds petition for halt to Fairmount drug treatment center plan
Residents say they were blindsided by the city’s proposal to house Kensington drug users at "triage center."
- unicornriot.ninja In New Sweep, Police Ban Observers & Media from Control Zone in Kensington, Philadelphia - UNICORN RIOT
Philadelphia police officers under orders from the mayor's office are conducting anti-homeless encampment sweeps early on a rainy Wednesday morning.
- • 100%whyy.org Philadelphia consumers could soon get more protections from the city
The legislation would provide a means to hold repeat offenders of fraud accountable on the local level.
- • 100%itsgoingdown.org Report on May Day Noise Demonstration Outside of Juvenile Justice Center in Philadelphia, PA
Report on May Day noise demonstration in so-called Philadelphia, PA. Originally posted to Philly Anti-Capitalist. After a lapse of three years anarchists held their own May Day demonstration. May first is an anarchist celebration of spring, remembrance, rebellion and it’s important to me that the le...
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Mayor Parker’s budget slashes funding for Vision Zero, a program designed to end traffic deaths
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker's first budget proposes spending much less city money on traffic calming.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Philly Police have cleared Penn’s Pro-Palestinian encampment and arrested 33 protesters
The protesters, who have remained peaceful, are part of a national movement on U.S. college campuses calling for universities to divest from entities benefitting from the war in Gaza.
- • 100%theconversation.com How Jason Kelce built his personal brand and became a Philly legend
2 marketing experts explain how the former All-Pro center for the Philadelphia Eagles has built a powerful personal brand centered on being a gritty underdog with family values.
- whyy.org 6 Penn students placed on mandatory leave for pro-Palestine encampment
Further action is pending disciplinary investigations by Penn's Center for Community Standards and Accountability, a Penn spokesperson said.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com A Philadelphia teacher who embodied ‘Olney love’ was shot and killed. Ondria Glaze’s school family remembers her radiance.
"She was never negative, always positive, uplifting, just spreading sunshine everywhere she went," said Kimberly Simmons, Glaze's aunt.
- • 100%billypenn.com Meet Birdy McBirdface: Philly’s newest professional sports mascot
Philly’s men’s ultimate frisbee team, the Phoenix, put the name up to an internet poll, and got an unsurprising result.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Ahead of the Kensington crackdown, aggressive policing has intensified
More than 20 drug users who spoke with The Inquirer said that police harassment has been ramping up in Kensington for months, even as actual drug-related arrests remain near a 15-year low.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com All eyes are on Kensington as Parker administration plans to clear homeless from a main corridor
The clearing will likely be the most visible action the Parker administration has taken yet in Kensington. City health officials estimate at least 675 people are homeless in the neighborhood.
- billypenn.com The Rocky Statue set for routine maintenance
Philly visitors trying to get a photo of Sylvester Stallone’s iconic fictional champion will also see conservators cleaning.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com How SEPTA and Amtrak improvements could help turn 30th Street into a neighborhood
The challenge will be to upgrade Schuylkill Yards in a way that is equitable to everyone.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com Cherelle Parker promised 30,000 units of ‘affordable housing’ as a candidate. She’s watered down that goal as mayor.
Parker has modified her plan to produce 30,000 units of "affordable housing" to include construction or repairs of homes of any kind.
- billypenn.com House Republicans come to Philadelphia to attack DA Larry Krasner
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on violent crime. Democrats called it political theater.
- • 100%www.inquirer.com While a few other universities reach compromises with protesters, why can’t Penn?
Penn remains at a stalemate with protesters occupying about 35 tents on College Green, with tensions mounting and protest activity escalating.
- • 100%theconversation.com On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on gentrification in Philly’s historically Black neighborhoods
Du Bois’ study, published in 1899, detailed the social conditions of poor Black residents of the Seventh Ward. The area is now home to some of Philadelphia’s ritziest neighborhoods.