Voice: The Citizen

At the first of our Development...For Good event series, we learned about the incredible changes to West Philly over the last decade—and what still needs to happen to benefit everyone

Two of America's greatest thinkers on business and the economy joined us for a Citizen Speaks event last week at Fitler Club. See what you missed.

The Philadelphia Citizen's year-long speaker series highlights a new generation of real estate developers in Philly, and delves into the impact their work has on our city.

At a Citizen event last week, the author talked about his 30 years as one of the greatest defenders of liberal thought—and how, if we soldier on, we can still preserve free thinking in America

Our mystery shopper tried to get just one of the dozens of ugly trash heaps cleared away from their North Philly neighborhood. Here's how well—or not—it went.

If there's a book you want that's not part of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s collection, will they add it to the catalogue? In the latest installment of our Mystery Shopper series, one of The Citizen’s (many) resident bookworms finds out.

The author of a new history of same-sex marriage joins The Citizen for an event next Tuesday. Here, an excerpt from the the highly acclaimed book.

Residents of one South Philly block tried for months to get the City to take action against businesses piling garbage on their street. Why is it so hard to get anyone to listen?

Beginning with a July 14 education panel, the groundbreaking programming brings together local and national leaders to recontextualize how democracy flourishes in a modern Philadelphia.

In the latest installment of our Mystery Shopper column, a local student test-drove how easy, or not, it is to navigate the city via SEPTA’s app