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You’ve probably seen it in the headlines. You’ve probably scratched your head a bit. (We did too, at first.) But fret not: PW spoke with city officials and read everything that’s been already written about the city’s massive, half-billion dollar initiative known as Rebuild, and we’re here to break it down for...

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....

Ideally, students running laps around the block on a humid Friday morning would be nothing more than exercise. On this early June day in Philadelphia, however, Masterman School is raising money for its extracurricular activities through a charity run. While other pols make their appearances in suits, state Rep. Brian Sims is...

Ideally, students running laps around the block on a humid Friday morning would be nothing more than exercise. On this early June day in Philadelphia, however, Masterman School is raising money for its extracurricular activities through a charity run. While other pols make their appearances in suits, state Rep. Brian Sims is...

When Wilhelm Reich moved from fascist Europe to America in the 1930s, he brought with him the idea that sexual freedom is the core of all liberation. Reich actually coined the term “sexual revolution,” and said “freedom without sexual self-determination is in itself a contradiction.” He made the case that fascists are...

On Friday, Democracy For America endorsed Larry Krasner in the Philadelphia district attorney’s race, the third national progressive organization to back the civil rights attorney this week. The nod to Krasner comes as part of the Democracy for America’s $500,000 commitment for progressive candidates in municipal elections this election cycle. The million-member...

With two months until the primary election, seven Democrats on the ballot, and no clear frontrunner in the District Attorney’s race, Larry Krasner doesn’t have time for a lengthy stump speech, nor does he have time to pretend that this isn’t him against the world. “I’m the most progressive candidate. No one...

She grew up on Fifth Avenue, frolicking with A-list stars. Now she lives on the streets of Northeast Philly, scraping by one day at a time, certain that famed funnyman Jerry Lewis is her father. Suzan Minoret is the antithesis of the rags to riches story. Short on money and equally short...

“I’ve been dead twice,” she says. “My heart stopped and they brought me back to life.” Mimi runs through her life by the numbers: seven years tricking under Kensington Avenue; three or four days awake at a time, getting high every two hours, followed by 18 hours of sleep in a “bando,”...