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Environment

Southwest: Community Surrounding Former Oil Refinery Site Take Action and Voice Concerns About Redevelopment Plans

December 6, 2022 Elizabeth DeOrnellas

Southwest Philadelphia residents push for a legal agreement to govern refinery redevelopment

Crime

Crime: Heal The Hurt and Value Young Lives

November 28, 2022 Haajrah Gilani

Heal The Hurt and Value Young Lives

Crime

Crime: Without Targeted Support, Youth are Left Behind

November 28, 2022 Natalie Elizabeth Kerr

Without Targeted Support, Youth are Left Behind

Crime

Hartranft: A Neighborhood in Transition

November 28, 2022 Haajrah Gilani

Hartranft: A Neighborhood in Transition

Crime

Crime: What Can Local Organizations Do to Help Stem the Tide of Violence?

November 28, 2022 Brooke Beyer

What Can Local Organizations Do to Help Stem the Tide of Violence?

Featured Stories

North Philadelphia: Can the Next Crimes be Prevented?

November 28, 2022 George W. Miller

November 28 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Temple student Samuel Collington.

2022 Midterm Elections

Elections: Philadelphia Students Talk Midterms and Share Issues Important to Them

November 8, 2022 Fallon A. Roth

Registered and non-registered student voters share issues they care about most and mobilize their communities ahead of elections

Neighborhoods

Northern Liberties: Life After Fleeing War, Yuliia Bihun Navigates Her Life as a Ukrainian Refugee in Philadelphia

September 17, 2022 Sarah Landwehr

This past February, Yuliia Bihun, her 2-year-old daughter, and her husband were back home in Kyiv, Ukraine when their home started to shake from Russian bombs at five in the morning.

Business

Health: Local Organizations Collaborate to Reduce Health Disparities for Expecting Black Mothers

August 9, 2022 Eden MacDougall

Independence Blue Cross is working with Cocolife.black and Cayaba Care to reduce racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity.

Center City

Spring Garden: Library Exhibit Highlights Photography, Humanity of Prisoners

August 5, 2022 Eden MacDougall

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.

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