Fifteen months after an SUV assigned to a top deputy in the sheriff’s office blew a red light in West Philly and caused a four-car wreck, promises of accountability have not yet been fulfilled.

And the corollary to this: Mamdani's win doesn't happen without a massive influx of Millennial/Gen Z seeking job opportunities bsky.app/profile/thec...

Voted for a bunch of judges even though it’s crazy we have to do that!

There’s a guy walking down south broad wearing an andy dalton bengals jersey right now. No idea why anyone chooses to live anywhere else

Put yourself in the shoes of a small business owner who wants to relocate HQ and has gotten down to a short list of Boston and Philly. They're going to have to work that much harder to turn a profit if they choose Philly, solely because of the difference in tax rates. 🧵

Taxing paper bags is dumb. Who amongst us has never forgotten to bring their reusable bags to the grocery store?

SEPTA's 260 transit cops catch a total of ~24 fare evaders and ~6.5 smokers a day. They call this "enforcement" 🙃 If SEPTA riders want to fight antisocial behavior, the first step is demanding transparency on what the hell SEPTA's 260 police actually *do* all day. wwww.septa.org/news/first-h...

Cut the BIRT. Reduce our dependency on the suburbs for good jobs. Grow the tax base. Rinse and repeat. www.phillyvoice.com/philly-budge...

The city has got win this FOPS lawsuit. An unelected group of residents from a wealthy neighborhood shouldn't be able to use their spare time and cash to block road safety improvements that we know will save lives.

Absolutely deadly behavior causing another crash on Spruce Street at 5th st early this morning. This is on the busiest bike lane in Philly with over 1,500 riders who use it daily. We deserve so much better than paint and flexposts, we deserve real protection.

Blown away by how lively downtown London is on a chilly Tuesday night in October. I haven’t felt pre-covid happy hour vibes like this in any city since March of 2020

The neighborhood’s internecine circular firing squad politics are probably a contributing factor! www.phillymag.com/news/2025/10...

If CP Thomas can actually get this rez scalper ban passed and enforced we should pedestrianize sansom street and name it after him

"Near “significant data center activity,” electricity now costs up to 267% more per month than it did five years ago, according to a Bloomberg." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

HOLY HELL WHAT A SCHWARBOMB

Open Streets is coming to Queen Village on the next two Saturdays as the neighbors association seeks the business boost and relaxing car-free vibe of the widely popular original version on West Walnut Street.

“It ends up hurting SEPTA because when you go to the state to ask for help, they say ‘Why should we give you any money when people aren’t paying?’” said Brendan Dougherty, a patrol officer who was working the fare-evasion detail.

This is sneaky great news

Love to see it www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia...

The "protection costs" the police/city are forcing all the festivals to pay is ruining one of the things making this city great. These festivals build community, bring people out of their homes into the streets and make us safer. share.google/8f3tLW2yIgBv...

Hell yeah Camden www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

Not sure if this is the right long-term outlook. The level of wage/business tax the city sets as a matter of policy is functionally inversely proportional to the set level of property tax. The current valuation crisis has as much to do with the former policy as it has to do with WFH.

Keeping our city’s biz taxes the highest in the nation has costs share.inquirer.com/6u0Sm6 (🎁)

So back

There are so many people who, despite everything, still want to be journalists. If you call yourself a journalist and choose to use AI to write your stories, please quit so someone else can take your seat.

I don’t know if New Jersey drivers are actually worse than drivers in any other state but New Jersey’s road designers are 1,000% the worst in the nation. I’ve met learned toddlers would could do better

The cuts to public transportation in Philly are an example of why everyone who believes public transit is worth having needs to ride it regularly. It’s not enough to say you support it in principle but then drive, take rideshare, or bike instead—you don’t really understand how people rely on it.

“For the Philadelphia region, the question is whether SEPTA’s retrenchment triggers an economic decline. America is littered with cities like Baltimore or Detroit whose growth and vitality suffered as their transit systems withered.” www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Center City has way too much empty office space and not enough businesses wanting to rent it. Yet we still have the highest business taxes of any major city in America.

Not great

⬇️ This is the real reason SEPTA has to cut service ⬇️ “Act 89 was passed to amend Act 44, cutting the turnpike's contribution to $450 million a year, all directed into the Public Transit Trust Fund... In 2023, the turnpike's contribution dropped to $50 million.” share.inquirer.com/PaGLQg

Kind of feel like it should be bigger national news that the poorest major city in the country is being forced to accept devastating service cuts to our public transit system because PA Republicans actively hate Philly and want to cause us pain

Fund SEPTA already

This city man www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

"Americans now spend an average of 99 more minutes at home each day than they did in 2003, while this generation of 15 to 24 year olds spends 124 more minutes at home than their counterparts two decades ago." 🧵🪡 wapo.st/45mlEFu

Hard co-sign on this. Current ownership stands to make billions of dollars when they eventually sell the Birds. www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagle...

"Philadelphians are four times [!!!] more likely to die from traffic violence than New Yorkers." www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Someone should really tell comcast “The days of a sporting venue sitting in a sea of surface parking... are over.” De-paywalled link: www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...

Philly Bike Action has launched a digital tool that allows users to report parking violations by taking a picture. Some examples of violations that Laser Vision has collected include vehicles allegedly blocking bike lanes, handicap ramps or crosswalks.

Been saying this for years… the only airport that I’d take over PHL is T.F. Green and that’s hardly a fair fight share.inquirer.com/7fB27q

I have to respectfully disagree with this headline... From what I've seen the save SEPTA discourse has been downright civil relative to the massive pre-meditated harm that certain politicians are trying to inflict on public transit and our area. www.inquirer.com/transportati...

shed a couple tears putting my trash out tonight

This hit me right in the chest

Azir Harris was paralyzed in a shooting in 2018 and had spent years sharing his recovery journey with Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas. He was killed in South Philadelphia Monday morning.

This fake downtown is brought to you by the BIRT share.inquirer.com/sPLlJA

Kudos to DC 33 for making sure their contract expired in July. The city was really playing checkers on that one

SEPTA is not messing around with fare evasion