Commented - philadelphia

Penn says it will pursue disciplinary action against encamped pro-Palestinian protesters (www.inquirer.com)

SEPTA will officially use AI to ticket cars parked illegally in bus lanes (www.inquirer.com)

YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market (www.404media.co)

Volunteers in Philadelphia’s Kensington say YouTubers and TikTokers are increasingly exploiting drug users as “trauma porn stars.”

Pennsylvania city at bottom of ‘friendliest’ list: report (www.pennlive.com)

It was Philadelphia that represented Pennsylvania at the very bottom of the list with an average friendliness score of 5.08 out of 10, make it the least friendly of the bunch.

The Satanic Temple gets $200,000 and free access from PA district that tried to bar its After School Satan Club (www.inquirer.com)

A Philly teen saw a murder, called 911 — and did 15 years in prison. Now, he’s exonerated. (www.inquirer.com)

When teenager Gary Hall was gunned down on a Nicetown street in 2006, his friends all seemed to know who did it....

November will be an existential test for the Philly GOP as it fights to defend the last Republicans in City Hall (www.inquirer.com)

For those that don’t know, Philly requires a minority party to hold some seats on city counsel. So the Working Families party decided to try to take all those seats to get rid of the GOP....

Why Philly ranks first in the country for STIs, and what’s being done to stop their spread (whyy.org)

4.8 magnitude earthquake hits NJ, shaking felt across Northeast including Philadelphia area (6abc.com)

Right-Wing 'Moms for Liberty' Organizer Is a Convicted Sex Offender - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)

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Philadelphia bans supervised injection sites – evidence suggests keeping drug users on the street could do more harm than good | The Conversation (theconversation.com)

The United States remains tightly in the grasp of an ongoing, and escalating, crisis of deaths caused by opioid overdoses....

Visiting Philadelphia this weekend

I am visiting Philadelphia this weekend and will be there for a little more than a week. Besides the obvious things to do:...

It would have taken $40M to save University of the Arts, a trustee says, as students protest the unprecedented closure (www.inquirer.com)

Former Philly Proud Boys president Zach Rehl sentenced to 15 years for his role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack (www.inquirer.com)

Zach Rehl, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the alt-right Proud Boys, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Thursday for his role in fomenting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol....

No more work from home: Mayor Parker issues return to office order for thousands of city employees (whyy.org)

Mayor Cherelle Parker says ‘not one city dollar’ will fund syringe exchange (www.inquirer.com)

This is what we get when 2 progressives split the vote. If either had dropped out, we’d have a progressive mayor now.

Philadelphia measles outbreak has hospitals on alert after child was sent to day care despite quarantine instructions (www.nbcnews.com)

Trump’s campaign reached out to Black voters in Philly with cigars and cognac (www.inquirer.com)

Move over, July 4: Philly’s planning a new celebration on the real independence day (billypenn.com)

Philadelphia man gets prison time for role in illegal eviction attempt (whyy.org)

Two nonprofits have dropped out of Philly’s child welfare system. The disruption will cost the city $66M. (www.inquirer.com)

Eclipse reaction at Philadelphia Zoo, animals underwhelmed (billypenn.com)

Newly elected school board president sworn in on stack of banned [Central Bucks] (www.dailykos.com)

Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District was one of the places where Moms for Liberty lost big in the 2023 elections, with a right-wing school board majority swept out and replaced with ...

Philly agrees to $9.1 million settlement for man exonerated in 1988 slaying of 4-year-old girl (www.inquirer.com)

Walter Ogrod, who was exonerated after spending 28 years in prison for the 1988 slaying of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, has agreed to a $9.1 million settlement of a federal lawsuit he filed against the City of Philadelphia, Ogrod’s lawyers announced Friday....