Voice: Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sustainability
Newish SBN Executive Director Devi Ramkissoon spent most of her career helping businesses in developing countries become engines of poverty relief. Here’s how she plans to do the same in Philadelphia
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Is Year-Round Schooling the Answer We Need?
What the most talked-about idea in the new schools plan would mean for Philadelphia
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
City Council Election 2023: Drew Murray Wants to be the Republican You Vote For
The second-time City Council at-large candidate plans to lower taxes, find government savings and be a moderate voice on the increasingly progressive body
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
City Council Election 2023: Eryn Santamoor, Technocrat-at-Large?
The practical policy nerd who has worked with Michael Nutter and Allan Domb is running for City Council-at-large with big ideas for solving problems and because it seems … really fun
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Exclusive: Who Won The First Independent Poll of the Philly Mayor’s Race?
Find out who would become the next mayor if Election Day were today — and who would come out on top in a ranked choice vote — in our new poll with Committee of Seventy, Chamber of Commerce, Urban Affairs Coalition and FairVote
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
The Citizen Recommends: Total Impact Summit
The annual ImpactPHL event doubles down on the business-for-good nonprofit’s mission: Putting money to work for Philadelphians
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Action Civics for the Win
At Philly’s first Civics Day, high schoolers from across the city proved what we all need to hear right now: Our future is in good hands
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
WATCH: The Ultimate Job Interview about Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Round 2 of our mayoral interview series explored how five candidates will grow jobs and help Philadelphians build a pathway to the middle class. Here’s what they said
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy