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You Can Prevent the Next E-Scooter Tragedy

Electric bikes and scooters are sending more kids to the ER. A local med student urges Pennsylvania to legislate a potential solution

By Tiffany A. Jackson
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What Our Love of Miranda Priestly Says About the World of Work

A Philadelphia employment lawyer weighs in on The Devil Wears Prada 2's fashion magazine editor. Could it be we relate to the domineering, anti-P.C. workaholic-in-charge?

By Jonathan A. Segal
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Give Charter Schools The Respect They Deserve

Mastery’s CEO urges the School Board to develop standards — and follow them — before making any new charter decisions on May 14

By Joel D. Boyd
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Our Children Are Worth It, Even if Billionaires Disagree

The leader of a PA child advocacy group urges City Council to pass a rideshare tax to help fund schools

By Donna Cooper
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Philadelphia Can Move Beyond Gas. Here’s How.

The City's goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050 can be reached with PGW's help

By Alex Bomstein

Welcome To Pander-Delphia

Local debates around Gaza, school closings, and ICE all raise the same question: Does anyone care about actual governing, or has Philly fully entered the age of the political grandstand?

By Larry Platt
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Ala Stanford and the Barbie Double Standard

A former City Council staffer on how political change requires voters to stop the hypocrisy in our politics

By Eryn Santamoor
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Philly Schools Don’t Need More Money

… They need more choice. A free market think tank leader urges Governor Shapiro to opt-in to a new federal tax credit program

By Nathan Benefield
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Modernize the Prison to Work Pipeline

Technology infrastructure inside prisons is Philadelphia's best workforce and safety investment, say two workforce and education leaders

By Jane Oates and David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez
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College Life on the Decline? Not Here.

As smaller private schools struggle, community colleges fuel growth in higher ed. Let’s support them, says a local education leader

By Victoria L. Bastecki-Perez