Topic: City Council

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?

The Republican mayoral candidate is a nice guy with progressive values, governing experience and Philly pride. And yet …

We’ve got your list of every candidate vying for a seat on Philadelphia City Council

City Council is set to vote this week on banning safe injection sites from all but one district in Philadelphia. Toronto has modeled another way

Changing the way we elect our City Council president could be a way to return your city government to you.

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

Philly 3.0’s engagement director on how a growth machine agenda under the next mayor could finally address the city’s housing crisis

Like cities around the country, Philly has seen a drop in homicides this year — but more work is needed from the state and the city to keep reducing violent crime

In L.A., allegations against a councilmember were met by his colleagues … doing the right thing. What a novel concept.

Philadelphia’s section of collapsed interstate reopened in record speed. Why, two City Councilmembers wonder, can’t we do the same for damaged schools?