Topic: Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary: It’s Time For Joe To Go
A local businessperson/philanthropist/coach has known — and admired — the President for years. Now he makes a painful case about the 2024 election.
By Seth Berger
Guest Commentary: Chinatown, Equity Partner
Forget a Chinatown community benefits agreement, a Philly native-turned New York storyteller says. The Sixers should offer the neighborhood a real partnership
By Alexander Narvekar Hughes
Guest Commentary: Does Philly Need Rent Control?
Philadelphia once led the country on keeping rents down — and, says the director of our city’s Rent Control Coalition, we can do it again
By Karen Harvey
Guest Commentary: Incredibly Affirming and Wrenchingly Sad
A few White men at the March on Washington, from a leader of the B Corp movement
By Jay Coen Gilbert
Guest Commentary: Urban Doom Loop … Really?
A story in the Wall Street Journal last week singled Philly out for having an empty office district. The head of the Center City District wonders: Do facts even matter anymore?
By Paul R. Levy
Guest Commentary: No One Should Go Hungry in College
More than 20 percent of all college students — and 35 percent of Black students — don’t have enough to eat. We have the tools, a renowned scholar and advocate says, to ensure everyone is well-fed
By Sara Goldrick-Rab
Guest Commentary: I-95 as a Model for Fixing Schools?
The powerful head of Philadelphia’s Building Trades on having the same sense of urgency when it comes to education as a collapsed road
By Ryan N. Boyer
Guest Commentary: A Radical Way To Rethink School Vouchers
How might advocates for and against vouchers find common ground? A former city education secretary has a proposal
By Debra Kahn