Topic: Nicolas O’Rourke

Who is Nicolas O’Rourke?

The freshman At-Large member of Philadelphia City Council is a member of the progressive Working Families Party — and a minister by trade. He’s giving the progressive response to President Biden’s State of the Union on March 7

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff

Really? Republicans Are Philly’s Biggest Problem?

Amid the handwringing over the Council campaigns of Working Families Party candidates Kendra Brooks and Nicolas O’Rourke, few have asked them: What’s the political rationale for their insurgency?

By Larry Platt
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Generational Shifts and the Politics of Change

The Citizen’s Roxanne Patel Shepelavy hosts a Drexel panel about who is—and soon will be—leading our democracy

By Jessica Blatt Press

The Working Families Party Distraction

Are we really supposed to believe that the impediment to progress in the city has been … two Republican at-large members of Council?

By Larry Platt