Government

Voters will decide if the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities should be a permanent entity in the Home Rule Charter.

Howard Zehr photographed and interviewed Pennsylvania prisoners with life sentences in the 90s and returned 25 years later to find out how their perspectives on their sentences changed.

Juntos is a community based organization that works to help Latinx immigrants with any issues they might run into here in Philadelphia.

Movita Johnson-Harrell provides knowledge on how she takes the time to help individuals in her community while trying to make a difference.

The Democratic candidate is running for the United States House of Representatives with gun violence prevention as his number one issue.

Amid ongoing City budget hearings, the advocacy group Parks and Rec Heroes hosted a rally outside City Hall to advocate for increased spending on Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation department in Philadelphia on Thursday April 21st. 

Amy Eusebio holds a background in social work and has utilized that experience to go into helping immigrants that need assistance with getting immersed/adjusted to the United States, and more specifically Philadelphia.

Members of the group met on April 11 to discuss Mayor Kenney’s recently released budget and what that meant for trying to support the library.