November 18, 2024
The Point Breeze and Greys Ferry communities celebrated the grand reopening of Vare Recreation Center in South Philadelphia with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday. This reopening marks the completion of the $21 million Rebuild project, the city initiative’s largest...
November 17, 2024
The midday sun hung over Ayeshia Poole’s shoulder as she explained the ambitious goal that her daughter, Jayanna Powell, had once set for herself. Jayanna could sing and dance her heart out — she’d memorized the lyrics to Beyoncé’s 2011 track, “Love on Top,”...
June 11, 2024
Elected officials from throughout the state joined the family of slain 8-year-old Fanta Bility on Monday to discuss new legislation aimed at providing police with additional training. Bility was killed by police gunfire on Aug. 27, 2021, when officers fired at a...
May 29, 2024
It takes guts to do what State Sen. Anthony H. Williams did. During a recent state Senate Education Committee meeting, Williams delivered a fiery sermon about the sad state of affairs in his district’s public schools, sharing the frustrated pleas of parents seeking...
May 7, 2024
A bill reviving the school voucher program killed by House Democrats during last year’s budget debates passed the Senate Education committee with bipartisan support on Tuesday. The program, called the PASS scholarship, would allow most students in the state’s...
December 15, 2023
Harrisburg, PA – Today, Governor Josh Shapiro hosted a ceremonial bill signing of the bipartisan Comprehensive Probation Reform legislation, formerly SB 838, ensuring probation serves as a tool to help Pennsylvanians re-enter their communities...
November 27, 2023
On Nov. 19, more than 100 family members, concerned citizens, and elected officials gathered in Hunting Park to remember the victims of traffic violence. As of Wednesday, at least 116 people have died this year from traffic violence in Philadelphia. This includes 52...
October 17, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Three years after buying the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Southwest Philadelphia, the redevelopment company Hilco broke ground on converting the site to an e-commerce and life sciences hub called the Bellwether...
October 16, 2023
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) broke ground today on the first phase of vertical construction on The Bellwether District’s 1,300-acre South Philadelphia site. Governor Josh Shapiro, Congresswoman Mary Gay...
August 4, 2023
Two weeks ago, we delved into how state House Dems politically miscalculated by seeming to reject a bipartisan budget deal that would have funded public schools at a historic rate while, at the same time, providing $100 million for private school vouchers. Hello,...
June 30, 2023
Industrial redevelopment is picking up in Southwest Philly: Amazon has told officials it will at last open its two-year-old, three-blocks-long complex adjoining Bartram High School by October, hiring the first of at least 200 workers. It will be the largest Amazon...
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January 14, 2022
Pressure is building on the University of Pennsylvania to take disciplinary action against law professor Amy Wax for saying the U.S. is “better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.” Driving the news: State Sen. Anthony Williams joined other...
January 13, 2022
Philadelphia-area lawmakers and advocates joined a growing chorus on Thursday condemning the latest racist statements made by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, calling for the school to revoke Wax’s tenure and an investigation into her employment....
January 13, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A University of Pennsylvania law professor is under fire again for remarks that elected leaders are calling racist and xenophobic, and they want the tenured professor to be removed. University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Amy Wax said...
January 13, 2022
As the latest controversy involving Penn Law professor Amy Wax demonstrates, law schools face an uphill battle in seeking to discipline tenured faculty members over “extramural” statements. What’s a law school to do when a tenured faculty member makes...
January 13, 2022
Philadelphia leaders and politicians, led by Sen. Anthony H. Williams, convened Thursday to condemn anti-Asian comments made by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax. The public officials questioned why Wax remains at the university as a tenured professor...
January 13, 2022
Philadelphia-area lawmakers and advocates Thursday joined the rising chorus condemning the latest racist statements made by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, calling upon the school to revoke Wax’s tenure and scrutinize her employment. Standing outside...
January 13, 2022
PHILADELPHIA – A long-tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania is under fire for alleged controversial comments she made about the Asian immigrant community on a podcast. Law Professor Amy Wax appeared on The Glenn Show last December and spoke about...
January 13, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — There are growing calls for the tenure of a University of Pennsylvania law school professor to be revoked after she said the country is “better off with fewer Asians.” Amy Wax made the comments during an interview in which she...
November 9, 2021
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s state Senate on Tuesday approved two veto-bound firearms bills, including one to allow people to carry a loaded gun openly or concealed, without a permit, and another to punish municipalities that impose firearms ordinances that are...
August 20, 2021
HARRISBURG – A backer of former President Donald Trump’s effort to carry out an Arizona-style “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election suggested Thursday that fellow Republicans in the state Senate are blocking his...
June 23, 2021
New York City has become the first major American city to complete a primary election through ranked choice voting. This alone is a historic win for the Black, brown and marginalized people of New York City. The candidates who received 50% of the vote in this primary...
March 24, 2021
DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. – Shocking revelations about what allegedly went on behind closed doors at a juvenile detention center in Delaware County. “We’re here because of systemic abuse. The systemic abuse of children,” public defender Chris Welsh...
March 23, 2021
DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) — In Delaware County, a call for action after a detention facility for children was shut down over allegations of abuse. The Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center was closed earlier this month. The public defender’s office says it...
March 23, 2021
Just over a week after Delaware County’s president judge emptied the county’s youth detention center in Lima, state and local officials called for dismantling a juvenile-justice system where they said abuse is endemic. “How many times does this have to happen before...
