Topic: Guest Commentary

How, the state’s former environmental protection chief wonders, can Philadelphia achieve its carbon output goals while also favoring its own city-owned gas utility?

Black women made up 43 percent of births in Philly but 73 percent of pregnancy-related deaths from 2013 to 2018. We must, the Science Center’s CEO urges, commit more resources in maternal health — and the leaders close to the cause

The Philadelphia School Board is on the verge of hiring a new superintendent. But, a former Temple education professor warns, it will take more than one person to transform our schools

The head of a literacy nonprofit on how to ensure disadvantaged Philadelphians can read, do math and use a computer—for their prosperity, and all of ours

The Delaware County DA, a child of a Ukrainian refugee, on being inspired by those “fearlessly carrying the torch of liberty” in his mother’s homeland

On Thursday, the school board will vote on a measure to encourage voter registration in Philly schools. Here, a Philly teacher and local college students sound off on why doing so is critical.

A former assistant DA hired by Krasner on why he can no longer support his former boss

The EPA is granting $20 million to help communities monitor air pollution. Now is the time, a clean air advocate urges, for Philly to take action.

The Citizen's co-founder argued that a government bailout of newspapers was a bad idea. Penn’s chief innovation officer and board member of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism disagrees

A bill co-sponsored by Sen. Casey would help the one-third of American families who struggle to buy diapers for their babies. Passing it is good health, safety and economic sense, say the leaders of a local children’s charity