WATCH

5 Ways Jeff Brown is uplifting Philly

Plus, three problems he wants our city to fix ASAP, and more from our virtual town hall with the local grocer bringing markets to food deserts

By Jessica Blatt Press
Business For Good

$3,000 Covid-19 Forgivable Loans

A group of bold-face name Philly business leaders are funding loans to small businesses left out of PPP and, in the process, providing all of us with an object lesson

By Larry Platt

A Needed Lyft

The ride share company is offering $2.50 trips for some Philly residents in food deserts to help with a major hurdle to healthy eating: getting to grocery stores

By Jessica Blatt Press

What Are the Soda Tax Facts?

A new, independent study sheds some light on our ongoing political debate. Isn't it time Mayor Kenney started paying attention?

By Larry Platt
Reality Check

Violent Areas Are Hungry Areas

Violence is often linked to hunger. That’s why we need more—not fewer—supermarkets in Philadelphia

By Charles D. Ellison

The Tax That Ate Philadelphia

The closing of a grocery in what will now be a food desert due to the soda tax may be a defining moment. Mayor Kenney’s response? A Trump-like personal attack

By Larry Platt
CitizenCast

Business for Good

On Wednesday, an audience of entrepreneurs, innovators and go getters joined a panel of experts to talk about how doing well and doing good go hand in hand. Listen to the conversation

By Syra Ortiz-Blanes

Mammograms To Go

Fox Chase Cancer Center’s roving mammogram unit conducts free screenings for 3,000 women every year when and where they need it—like their local supermarket

By Quinn O'Callaghan

Intolerance, Philly-Style

When a rabid crowd of protesters shut down a public hearing last week on the economic impact of the soda tax, the real victim was Democracy itself

By Larry Platt

Listening to Jeff Brown

He has done more to bring fresh food to inner cities than any other grocer—as with his upscale, affordable new store on Monument Road. So why is the Mayor attacking him over the soda tax?

By Larry Platt