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State Legislators Want to Bigfoot Philly’s New Sick Leave Ordinance
Pennsylvania legislators met yesterday in Harrisburg to hone a bipartisan amendment that would vitiate the seven-plus years of work that went into Philadelphia’s sick leave ordinance by making it retroactive […]
Philly Native Andrew McGill Creates Obama Detector Device
Really Smart Guy Andrew McGill is best known in Philadelphia for his website PhillyRapSheet.com, which scans court filings every 30 minutes to tell you who […]
Video of a Schuylkill River Ice Breaker Is Oddly Therapeutic
We can’t get enough of the frozen Schuylkill River. Yesterday, it was a stunning drone video that gracefully hovered over the Hidden River. Today, we […]
Union Accuses SugarHouse of Spying On Organizers With Surveillance Cameras
The Unite Here Local 54 union has been working for years to unionize casino workers at SugarHouse, the gambling hall that opened in 2010 on […]
Are Women Being Overmedicated?
Psychiatrist Julie Holland wrote in the New York Times this weekend about adjudicating the female mood, which ever since the publication of the feminist classic The […]
Distrito Wants Your Lunch Loyalty
Along with the endless supply of uncapped pens and and receipts swimming around at the bottom of my purse, I seem to always have […]
Tom Wolf’s Incredible Plan to Overhaul Philly Taxes
Gov. Tom Wolf unveiled his first budget plan for Pennsylvania Tuesday, and it’s nothing if not ambitious. What got a little lost in the coverage of Wolf’s […]
The Brief: No Standouts at Green-Themed Mayoral Forum
Six Democrats vying to be mayor of Philadelphia pitched themselves Tuesday night at a forum where sustainability issues such as bike lanes, plastic bag fees and street cleaning […]
Court to Hear Challenge to Death Penalty Moratorium
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear Philly D.A. Seth Williams’ challenge to Gov. Tom Wolf’s moratorium on executions, the court said Tuesday. “In a brief […]
Debate on $15 Minimum Wage Starts Today
Talk has been simmering for months. Today the debate begins in earnest: City Council’s Committee on Commerce and Economic development will hold hearings on raising […]
What Seth Williams Didn’t Say About Civil Forfeiture
There’s probably a good case to be made for the civil forfeiture system — in which authorities seize money and property they believe has been […]
J.Crew and Sugar Paper Just Launched Their Second Collection of Wedding Stationery
Wedding stationery collaborations are all the rage nowadays: In 2014 we saw quite a few collaborative collections hit the market (Marchesa, Claire Pettibone and Whitney Port each joined forces […]
How Free do We Want Our Nipples?
My hot yoga class gets hot. As in, really hot. When I ring out my mat out after class, best-case scenario is that all of […]
Cops: Pit Bull Stolen From Outside Philly Drug Store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQX3QFeuXyo Philadelphia police released surveillance video today of a dognapping. Cops say the theft took place Monday outside the Rite Aid at 2545 Aramingo Avenue […]
March is Throwback Month at London Grill
London Grill is turning 24 years old this month, and chef Michael McNally is celebrating with four favorite dishes from the restaurant’s past. Each week, the […]