Former candidate Terry Gillen shows she can still influence the debate

The careful, calculating mayoral candidate talks schools and tells his story.

Or: Why we can’t have nice things.

Fact-checking our own Insider’s take.

Let us demand real reforms, not fig leaves.

Step One: Elect new Council members.

The best charters are whiter and wealthier than district schools

Clarke’s big City Hall re-org and the racial injustice of tough curfew laws.

Pew: Funding for city schools lags many other big cities.

Sorry Rendell. You’ve been left in the dust.

The SRC will endure. So will the district’s financial crisis.

Hub day on Citified brought out the opponents.

Joel Mathis live-tweets Nelson Diaz’s campaign launch at Tierra Colombiana.

A leading charter supporter disses charter supporters.

A Q&A with refinery CEO Phil Rinaldi.