Your 2025 Good (Philadelphia) Citizen Calendar

The dates you need for things to do in Philadelphia to make 2025 your civic best

By Lauren McCutcheon

Fun Things to Do in Philly this Week and Weekend

This week in Philly we're celebrating the return of the Phillies, the Cherry Blossom Festival, the Punk Rock Flea Market, and the Free Library Gala, plus we have new theater productions, concerts, Cocktails for a Cause, and much more

By Christina Griffith

Mayor Parker’s Best Housing Ideas

The new plan lays out an ambitious array of changes to speed up the building of new affordable housing in Philly

By Jon Geeting

Why “Broken Windows” Policing Is Still a Good Idea

Despite its bad reputation, a Penn criminologist makes the case for bringing back (fairly) an old crime-fighting practice

By Anthony A. Braga
WATCH

Ellen Yin on Leadership as a Collective Act

The celebrated restaurateur won the Chamber of Commerce’s prestigious Paradigm Award for women. Here’s what she credits for her success

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Krasner Versus … Trump?

The DA says he’s a “Democracy Advocate” and his real opponent is Donald Trump. Is there something to that, or is it just campaign spin?

By Larry Platt

“We Are in Survival Mode”

Even with a city budget proposal that pays for community-driven gun violence intervention work, organizers are worried about President Donald Trump’s promises to slash federal funding

By Afea Tucker
The Citizen Must-Reads

Attack Plans on Signal, Shrinking Ed Dept, Keeping Jews Safe …

… and other smart takes to help you make sense of all the national news assaulting you this week

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff

My School Votes …

… thanks, in large part, to the work of the high school winner of Vote That Jawn’s Erinda Sheno Memorial Prize essay contest.

By Miran Andriyevsky

Rethinking the Worst Phrase in History

The college winner of Vote That Jawn’s first Erinda Sheno Memorial Prize wants us to act now in the way we want history to remember us

By Olivia Loudon