Topic: Guest Commentary

Pennsylvania has among the fewest housing options for people with intellectual disabilities. That, a mother, scholar and advocate notes, causes them harm — and wastes all of our money

Pedestrian volumes are at 73 percent of pre-pandemic numbers. Here, Center City District’s CEO on what that means — and what is still needed

A Philadelphia educator reflects on the power of young people to accept the world as it is, brutal and beautiful — and urges us all to revel in what they can teach us

Party leaders hand-picked candidates for the two vacant At-Large Council seats. A former longtime committeeperson calls for a more democratic method — and solution

A local basketball coach and father of young men wonders if a middle path on abortion is the way America can survive this political moment

The director of youth development at a local social enterprise reminds us that online access is only half the battle

A Republican supporter of Democrat Josh Shapiro on what passes for a bit of courage among his fellow state party members this election season

Philly’s former district attorney has a three-step plan to get guns off the street — and reduce the record shootings — in Philly

In a groundbreaking new report, the head of Center City District starkly lays out the problem — and calls for Philadelphia’s next mayor to fully invest in growth

A bystander of the Fourth of July shooting points out a fact of gun violence in America: Most are not mass shootings, but the everyday violence that plagues communities.