New Blood

Is Philly ready for a bleeding-heart conservative?

In the third of an ongoing series, meet Terry Tracy: a reformer bent on shaking things up and the rarest of Philadelphia creatures – a Republican.

By Larry Platt

Is This Really What $2.6 Billion Buys?

The Philadelphia School District Budget Should Be Big Enough To Educate Our Kids. Here’s Why It Isn’t

By Larry Platt
New Blood

A Former Janitor Turned Policy Wonk Talks Solutions

A desperately needed new generation is stepping up to change Philly by changing City Council. In the second of an ongoing series, meet at-large candidate George Matysik

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal

Zero-Based Budgeting

Josh Shapiro has reimagined how suburban public dollars are spent—and reinvented government in the process.

By Larry Platt
New Blood

From The Trailer Park to the Boardroom…to City Council?

A desperately needed new generation is stepping up to change Philly by changing City Council. In the first of an ongoing series, meet at-large candidate Tom Wyatt.

By Larry Platt
Citizen of the Week

Liz Arnold

The West Philly anti-fracking activist won’t stop speaking her truth to power

By Larry Platt

The Citizen Loves…The 1026 Mummers

By Larry Platt

A Tale of Two Parties

A dispatch from the front lines of Pennsylvania Society, and its promising alternative

By Larry Platt

The Shame of Our City

Council’s refusal to hold a hearing on a $1.8 billion windfall for the city is just the latest embarrassment from what was once termed “the worst legislative body in the free world.”

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal

START-UP NY

Tax credits in New York are fueling economic growth. Can that work here?

By Larry Platt