In 2015, a bill that would have significantly altered the mayor’s power over spending. It was vetoed by the mayor, and then councilmembers changed their minds.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the ...

Philadelphia is set to honor Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from University of Pennsylvania's law ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is meeting with key political leaders as she contemplates removing Mayor Eric Adams from office ...

What do we do now? the young Senate candidate played by Robert Redford in 1972’s The Candidate famously asks after his upset victory. And it’s probably what a lot of Philadelphians are asking now that ...

McKissack & McKissack is renovating Wilmington's JPMorgan Chase offices and has secured contracts with SEPTA, the Philly ...

The trouble when we talk about an energy transition is that clean energy programs are often out of reach for many, especially ...

Carolyn Cavaness has become the first female pastor of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Center City.

It’s been a politically charged week for Mayor Eric Adams after the Department of Justice ordered prosecutors to drop a ...

Philadelphia school officials and their partners from the education sector citywide are aiming to add 900 teachers of color to the city’s workforce in the next five years. They also want to increase ...

The West Philly native, who died in 2021, established the United Bank of Philadelphia and served as the treasurer for Jesse ...