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Newsworks reminds us that midnight tonight is the deadline to appeal your new property tax assessments. “Fueled by Philadelphia’s city-wide property re-assessment, as of mid-day […]

Assistant D.A. Lynn Nichols, who works in the homicide division, has been charged with two crimes–obstruction of justice and false reporting of a crime–and has […]

Not all that long ago, it took a team of gumshoe reporters and endless following up on right-to-know requests to figure out who received tickets […]

Old people! Why are you always ruining everything? Starting tomorrow, Philadelphia’s trash-infested streets are about to get more trash-infested. Right now, the Streets Department will […]

C’mon, Philadelphia. It’s not that bad. Sure, the schools are underfunded. Yes, the General Assembly seems to want to kill our transit system. Fine, the […]

And here it is: NBC 10 reports on the $200 million in back taxes owed to City Hall: The top scofflaw, according to city records, […]

City Controller’s office press release: City Controller Alan Butkovitz today released a follow up review of the Department of Streets’ Bridge Maintenance Unit that found […]

WHYY’s Dave Davies reports on a proposal by Wilson Goode Jr. to crack down on City Hall corruption: He’s introducing a bill which would take […]

Josh Middleton at our sister blog, G-Philly, has the scoop: A few weeks ago I reported on a petition that called on City Council to sever Philly’s […]

First came the new ad from the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, claiming Michael Nutter and Tom Corbett were in kahoots, conspiring together to cut school […]

NextCity.org has an interesting proposal to fix the never-endingly sclerotic nature of doing business at City Hall: Get the parties—Democrats and Republicans—out of local governance […]

A woman in South Philly caught this sanitation worker pissing away in an alley outside her home. Here is the footage you’re dying to see. […]

What do A-Rod and Jonathan Josey have in common? They’re both still in the game — and neither should be. A-Rod probably needs no introduction: […]

Update [1:30 p.m] City Council President Darrell Clarke, inevitably, disagrees with the plan. One, he says the city needs permission from Council to borrow. Two, […]

Hooboy, this oughtta go over well with Jerry Jordan and co. Because the district is still facing a deficit of more than $270 million and […]