A conversation with Salt Lake’s Ben McAdams and Atlanta’s Josh Humphries on how to transform cities’ vast inventories of properties into lasting sources of civic and financial good Almost 40 percent of Philly students were chronically absent in the last school year. Solutions from across the country start with accountability Ten states have legalized the energy- and money-saving home technology. Should PA become the first swing state to do so? Calling all small nonprofits and do-good businesses: Enter now for a chance to present your homegrown innovation at this year’s Ideas We Should Scale Showcase Other states — New Jersey, for example — have launched programs that offer free at-home post-baby visits for every new mom. Could we do the same in Philly? Twenty percent of Philadelphians regularly experience hunger — in part because they live in food deserts. National urban thinkers lay out an idea we should steal for reinventing the grocery store, from Mamdani’s New York to Atlanta, Georgia A local political activist has an idea we should steal to bring power back to the people A partnership of organizations has made Baltimore Harbor swimmable again. Could Philly do that with the Delaware and the Schuylkill? A year from reelection, the mayor has taken big swings, sustained political losses, and faces progressive backlash. Here, a job performance review — and a challenge Like 22 other states, the PA House passed a Montco Rep’s bill to encourage reading in every household. The inspiration? Dolly Parton
Philly as Real Estate Developer
More Students Attending School
Plug-In Solar
Do You Have a Philly Idea Worth Scaling Up?
Universal Postpartum Services
A 100-Year-Old Idea for Feeding American Cities
What If We — Not Billionaires — Controlled Our Election Funding?
Make our Rivers So Clean, You Can Swim in Them
Parker v. Parker
Books for Every Pennsylvania Child