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Philly Mayor Kenney angling to revive residency requirement for city cops
Kenney administration spokeswoman Lauren Cox declined to elaborate in an email about what specific residency requirements the administration wants.
Philly councilman wants to give school district $10M to address lead, asbestos in classrooms
At-large City Councilman Derek Green, a Democrat, wants the city to dig into its surplus to help pay for remediation in the schools.
Former Philly fraud investigator indicted for allegedly taking $22k in bribes and kickbacks
The accused, Jeffrey Blackwell, 46, is a former fraud-buster, and a member of a well-connected Philly political family.
Philly City councilwoman wants acting police commissioner out over T-shirt mocking Rodney King beating
Viewed through a 2019 lens, acting Commissioner Christine Coulter said she wouldn't wear the T-shirt today. That might not be good enough.
At House hearing, Philly students give their take on criminal justice reform
By John N. Mitchell PHILADELPHIA — There is a growing movement in education in schools across Philadelphia to prioritize restorative justice over more punitive forms of punishment. On Tuesday, in a first-of-its-kind hearing, at least a dozen students who participate in the Philadelphia Community Youth Court had the opportunity to tell state lawmakers about the […]
Philly Black leaders: More cops fired over alleged racist, violent Facebook postings
“More people were involved in that. More people have been fired,” said Solomon Jones, who heads the Rally for Justice Coalition.
Enviros fume as Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan downplays rift with Pa. over Chesapeake cleanup
Just a week ago, the Republican complained bitterly that Pennsylvania was falling short of its requirements to reduce nitrogen in state waterways and had a $320 million funding gap to meet federally mandated cleanup goals.
Billionaire backer of Marsy’s Law cuts deal on drug trafficking charges
Nicholas is the backer of the nationwide push for the victims’ rights measure Marsy’s Law, which seeks to change state laws to enshrine rights for crime victims.
ICE ordered her deportation. Instead she’s spent the last year living in a Va. church
Abbie Arevalo-Herrera is one of two women living in Virginia churches to avoid deportation by ICE, which has a policy of not arresting people in locations it deems “sensitive.”
AFL-CIO president will host NAFTA town hall in Pittsburgh
By Derek Robertson The president of the nation’s largest labor union announced Tuesday that he will hold a series of town halls about “union members’ struggles under NAFTA, and what working people want to see from the administration’s proposed USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement].” The AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka will travel to Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan over […]
At town hall, U.S. Rep. Dean says ‘enough is enough,’ calls for Congress to open impeachment inquiry
"I think we are faced with the most indecent president of our lifetime,” Dean said on the campus of Montgomery County Community College.
Protesters target Michigan operation of Pennsylvania anti-abortion group
By Derek Robertson A Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit is blanketing this week’s Mackinac Policy Conference with accusations that a family planning group opposed to abortion is misusing state taxpayer dollars. The nonprofit Equity Forward is accusing that group, Harrisburg-based Real Alternatives, of waste and misattribution of funds in its partnership with Michigan, which began in 2013 […]