Voice: Larry Platt

Three Philly Profiles in Courage
Congressmembers Chrissy Houlahan, Brendan Boyle and Brian Fitzpatrick all recently exhibited a quality voters rarely reward anymore: Integrity
By Larry Platt
A Tax Reform Plan Even Progressives Can Love?
Jefferson Health is the latest to eye leaving the city. Can the Tax Reform Commission’s recommendations deviate from past ones and jumpstart job growth?
By Larry Platt
Hey Philly, Let’s Tell Bezos to Suck It
The Citizen is intensely hyperlocal. But attacks on Enlightenment values know no borders. Here, a way to stand against media surrender and get clearer on national affairs without regard to ideology
By Larry Platt
Does Philly Need Our Own (Gulp!) DOGE?
While Oligarch-in-Chief Musk wages culture war on the so-called deep state, what’s the way forward for local and national Democrats? Actually showing they can make government work better for you
By Larry Platt
Is Larry Krasner in Trouble?
If character is still an issue in local elections, he just may be. The DA faces a shifting zeitgeist and a credible challenger in Pat Dugan, who has already garnered the support of labor leader Ryan Boyer
By Larry Platt
Lifetime Achievement Larry Magid
The legendary concert promoter and rock and roll impresario didn’t just help create the 60s and 70s counterculture. He rocked the world, but he’s as Philly as they come
By Larry Platt
Would Senator Robert F. Kennedy Vote to Confirm RFK, Jr.?
RFK Jr’s confirmation grilling makes you wonder whether his iconoclastic father would have voted for his own son. What would the senior RFK’s biographers say?
By Larry Platt
Greg Deavens on Retirement and Beyond
Our Lewis Katz Corporate Citizen of the Year, who we’ll honor next month, on retiring next year, continuing to serve Philadelphia, and his (gasp) Dallas Cowboys fandom
By Larry Platt
City, Save Thyself
With Trump targeting cities — and resistance an antiquated model — how should Mayor Parker and others respond? How about lessening our dependence on D.C. by pursuing growth … which just might start with tax reform
By Larry Platt
The Arena Deal That Wasn’t
Billionaires fighting. Pols flailing. Protestors screaming. Did the last three years really happen? What went wrong — or right — behind the arena wars
By Larry Platt