Topic: Ideas We Should Steal

Game days are amazing, but they’re also incredibly wasteful. One Oregon company has helped a number of professional sports arenas convert to reusable cups and food baskets. Could South Philly be next?

Budget cuts. School closures. Structural deficit. Scant academic progress. Spin from District headquarters. Larry Platt asks: Is Superintendent Watlington up to being a transformational leader?

Three percent of all children in the U.S. are bedless. An Idaho-based nonprofit working to give them a safe, comfortable place to sleep now has a chapter in NJ. Is Philly next?

A Seattle program has encouraged both mom-and-pop eateries and behemoths like Starbucks to pare down their customer-facing waste. Could litter-burdened Philly do the same?

Atlanta’s 20-year-old Beltline proves comprehensive pedestrian-centered development — in contrast to Philadelphia’s piecemeal approach — has rich rewards

A longtime university president suggests the city’s library system follow Chicago and Baltimore, and add food pantries to its community services

What ideas can Philly steal from the years-old protest movement in the Minnesota city?

A program that pays people to relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma has grown the city’s population and quadrupled its investment. Is this an idea Philly should steal?

Undisclosed in rental leases, add-on costs threaten to upend affordable housing. Seattle and other cities have begun to put a stop to the practice

At a time when Washington, D.C. is in hot debate over the Affordable Care Act, Maryland is using an ACA provision to fund safe, legal abortions for Medicaid recipients — without costing taxpayers. Should Pennsylvania follow suit?