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Editor note: On April 9, 2023, Maria Quiñones Sánchez suspended her campaign. Over nearly 15 years in City Council, Maria Quiñones Sánchez, 54, has earned […]

Finally, fund-raising front-runners are starting to emerge in Philly’s crowded mayoral race. What we’re seeing is that seven (of the 10-plus) mayoral candidates most certainly […]

Now that the midterm results are finally wrapped up, it feels safe to say that Pennsylvania has gone blue. The governor’s mansion and the state […]

We knew this day would come. I called it a few weeks ago. The mass exodus of City Councilmembers resigning before this Thursday’s return to […]

Maria Quiñones-Sánchez Resigns to Run for Mayor In what’s becoming an increasingly fascinating time in Philadelphia’s municipal politics, longtime City Councilmember Maria Quiñones-Sánchez has made […]

The final days of summer are here, and we’re now off to the races: Philly’s mayoral election season has officially begun. Many of us have […]

While the protests of the last two weeks in Philadelphia and across the country have nominally been about police brutality, City Councilmember Maria Quiñones-Sánchez and […]

My full name is … Maria de los Angeles Quiñones Sánchez. The woman next to my mother in the delivery room — her child passed […]

It’s hard to imagine there’s anyone in the City of Philadelphia who utters the phrase “opioid crisis” more often than Maria Quiñones-Sánchez. “I never thought […]

“This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.” That’s what is written on every single piece of United States paper currency that’s […]

Philadelphia has lots of affordable housing. It also has an affordable-housing problem. Here’s the problem: Most of the affordable housing is in those neighborhoods where poverty […]

Mayor Jim Kenney signed a bill yesterday that will help the city crack down on illegal towing in Philadelphia.

Some of Mayor Jim Kenney‘s top staffers suggested that a group of activists “corner” Councilwoman María Quiñones-Sánchez at a public event earlier this year to get her […]

Anyone in Philadelphia who has ever had a car towed illegally is getting the chance to speak out.

It’s a really hard time to be a Latina and a local politics wonk. Leslie Acosta — one of two Latino state lawmakers from Philly, and the […]