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Citizen of the Year Awards: Youth Citizen Yuvaraj R. Gambhir
For his advocacy, fundraising, mentorship and more, the Philly native and University of Pennsylvania senior is this year’s Youth Citizen of the Year
The Citizen Recommends: Take a Cab
Why pay Silicon Valley tech companies for your ride when locally-owned taxi cabs are cheaper, faster and put money back into Philadelphia’s economy?
Can Zero Waste be … Delicious?
A Philly makers pop-up that features milk-waste clothing, beef-tallow soaps and Food & Wine-approved billion layer lasagna, fighting climate crisis with creativity
Book Excerpt: The Banker Who Made America
In his new book, author and thought leader Richard Vague tells the story of Thomas Willing, the most powerful figure in U.S. history you’ve never heard of. Join Vague and The Citizen for a book event April 14
Solving Gun Violence with Group Therapy — and $50
Is this City-funded program — which also helps participants build job skills and rethink decisions — responsible for Philadelphia’s declining homicide rate?
Citizens of the Week: Mt. Airy Family Commons Founders
Parenting infants and little children can be incredibly lonely. Hannah Fenlon, Linda Joy and Hannah Newman have a solution in a co-op that already includes 80 families
The New Urban Order: The Case Against Managed Decline in the School District
In all the talk over closing and fixing Philly schools, there is no mention of building new ones that might serve the community better into the future. Can we look to New York City and Boston for solutions we should steal?
Guest Commentary: Governor Shapiro, Give PA Kids Access to a New Scholarship Program
The president of a free market think tank urges Pennsylvania to opt in to help students — both public and private — with school costs
Listen: Velshi Asks What is Trump Doing With Pregnant Teen Migrants in Texas?
The MS NOW host and Citizen board member talks with Jonathan White, former director of a federal unaccompanied child program, about a Texas facility reportedly flagged for inadequate medical care where pregnant teen migrants are being sent
Guest Commentary: In Defense of the Philadelphia School District
A deputy superintendent pushes back on a Citizen story that called the District’s Facilities Master Plan a sign of “managed decline”