Voice: Christine Speer Lejeune
Ideas We Should Steal: A History in Two Monuments
Now that South Philly’s Columbus Statue has been unboxed, can we find a healthier way to grapple with our monument issues, as they’ve done in Franklin, Tennessee?
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Help the Homeless in Philadelphia
More than 15 ways to make a difference in the lives of Philadelphians experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness
By Christine Speer Lejeune
How to Fight Food Insecurity in Philly
Donate peanut butter! Organize a food drive! Sort cans! Here are 15 simple things you can do now to help food insecure citizens of Philadelphia.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Save the Moms!
How to care for the over-burdened, burned-out moms of Covid. And why now, at the pandemic’s two-year mark, we actually have to.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Your Miserable ER Experience Isn’t Just Because of Covid
Will the pandemic be a wake-up call about the weaknesses in emergency care? Or will it be a death blow? The answer is in what we do next.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Ideas We Should Steal: Other-Caring Our Way Out of Covid Misery
In the Age of Self-Care, a Stanford psychologist suggests a better antidote to what ails us right now: focusing on other people
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Letter from Fairmount
A neighbor of those lost in the tragic fire this week chronicles the horror, the sorrow and, fittingly, the community togetherness that has emerged
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Generation Change Philly: The Cleaner-Upper
How Terrill Haigler (a.k.a. Ya Fav Trashman), a former Philly sanitation worker with a gift for organizing — and for social media — became one of Filthadelphia’s most beloved and recognizable change-makers
By Christine Speer Lejeune