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Where Cecil B. Moore intersects the Germantown Avenue arterial in North Philadelphia, there’s a plot of land that will sit untouched by developers.

In commemoration of the one year anniversary of the national March for Our Lives demonstration, 60 plus people took to Love Park midday on March 24.

Leonidas Tsiaras is an example of how medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder can turn around someone’s life.

On Saturday afternoon, when the co-chair of Philadelphia’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America called a vote on a resolution to endorse Bernie Sanders in the 2020 presidential campaign — Whereas, the Democratic Party primary will be hotly contested, the liberal establishment will do everything in their power to undermine Sanders...

It’s been six years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. It was a day that shook the nation to the need for gun control measures as reports came out that 20 children, between the ages of six and seven, and six adults had been killed by gunman Adam...

Hudson Reporter – Publishers Lucha Malato and David Unger have announced the sale of their company, Hudson Reporter Assoc. LP, to the Newspaper Media Group (NMG) of Cherry Hill. NMG is the publisher of over 50 weekly, community newspapers in Southern and Central New Jersey, as well as in the Greater Philadelphia...

Just three years ago, Philadelphia held the ignominious distinction of having the highest incarceration rate among large American cities. On Wednesday, following a years-long decarceration effort, city officials announced plans to shutter the oldest and most dilapidated of the city’s six jails within the next two years. The proposed closure of the 91-year-old House...

The last thing I want to ask Frances Quinlan is about her voice.

In his three years as a literacy instructor at Tilden Middle School, Cole Jadrosich, 26, has been looking for ways to teach literacy outside of the classroom. He knew a fellow teacher who maintained a few small planter beds in the far corner of the school’s blacktop. After Jadrosich planted his first...

Three staffers have departed from City Councilman Bobby Henon’s nine-person office amid an ongoing FBI investigation into the councilman’s union work. Henon and John Dougherty, who leads the politically influential IBEW Local 98 electricians union (where Henon is also employed), have been in the federal agency’s crosshairs for more than two years....