This afternoon, America will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Another march is scheduled to be held in […]

City Paper reports: A census report, quietly released in May, revealed some interesting statistics about student populations and urban poverty rates. The report found that, […]

The Inquirer reports on Tom Wlodkowski, a blind Comcast exec who is trying to develop a talking TV guide for use by the company’s visually impaired […]

It’s almost Labor Day, which for the past two years in Philadelphia has meant one thing: Closing off our version of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées […]

CBS Local reports that a New Jersey court has ruled a state prohibition on driving-while-texting can be used against individuals who sent texts to friends […]

It keeps getting worse: Gov. Tom Corbett’s latest nominee to head the state Education Department led the national search team that helped steer the Allentown […]

Campaign seasons are long, and they’re even longer when the outcome seems more or less pre-ordained. That’s the only reason we can figure out why […]

A poignant entry from Greg Eleftherakis

The city has declared August 28th to be Kurt Vile Day in Philadelphia, and the Northern Liberties–based musician, husband and father is playing a free […]

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: Harry Philbrick, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), today announced […]

CBS News reports: Sarah Murnaghan, the Pa. girl whose family sued to get her an adult lung transplant, left the The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia […]

We told you that Mayor Nutter really doesn’t like that ad accusing him of shirking his duty on funding city schools. On Tuesday night, he […]

Well, it sure looks like America is going to go to war in Syria. President Obama, who rose to presidential plausibility as the anti-war alternative […]

A play-by-play analysis.

On May 25th, 26-year-old paralegal Julia Law was found dead inside the tony Rittenhouse Square apartment of her boss and lover, prominent Philadelphia defense attorney […]