Business
Medical Guardian
The Philadelphia-based medical alert system wants to help seniors live independently for longer — and stave off the need for home health aides. Can it?
By Courtney DuChene
It’s Time to Act on Fair-Chance Hiring
Philadelphia companies have outwardly embraced putting returning citizens to work. That’s great, says a decades-long fair-chance employer — provided those employers do some work themselves
By Nic Watson
FiXA, the Home Repair Connector
What if you didn’t have to bug your friends and family for home repair help and contractor references? A Philadelphia based, women-owned company has your back
By Courtney DuChene
Subsidizing the Sidewalk
San Francisco’s new incentive program to bring retail back to downtown is an idea Philadelphia should steal
By Diana Lind
Al Dashiell, Barber Plus
His Center City shop offers shaves, haircuts — and health care
By Laura Brzyski
Corporate Citizens Leigh and John Middleton
You know them as the couple who owns the Phillies. You likely know less about their extensive philanthropy, including being the force behind a major new art exhibition — and that’s just fine with them
By Lauren McCutcheon
A Powerful Path to Peace?
A local circular economy leader on the fallacy of the scarcity mindset behind Trump’s latest war in the Middle East
By Nicolas Esposito
A Region Rises Together — or Not at All
Last in economic mobility among the 50 largest U.S. metros and stagnant in job creation, Greater Philadelphia should, says a chamber of commerce chair and a former U.S. ambassador, unite to succeed
By David L. Cohen and Christopher Franklin
Networking for Creatives
A graphic designer launched Collab for Philadelphians who work in creative jobs — or want to — and other creatives who just want to make a new friend or two
By Azia Ross
Kenya Abdul-Hadi, Style Iconoclast
The branding genius, chef and photographer meets up with a fellow fashion creator — and invites you to join them this weekend for the Vintage Design Market
By Reuben Harley