The United States has never offered Ukrainians the support they need to maintain their freedom. Now we are threatening to take even our current inadequate support away. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

Public safety costs must be shared more evenly. www.inquirer.com/opinion/even...

This week's column is about balancing the legacy of the past with the needs of the present. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

Great density, horrible double-loaded corridor floorplan. Imagine how much better this could be as an ensemble of single-stair buildings with more height allowed away from the street

City Council should approve the new bus terminal, and bring an end to the long saga for riders. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

This is great for Chicago, but as someone from a state that has not only failed to fund transit but also postponed any discussion of it until 2027, it hurts.

Given the capital raid was devised by the State Senate Republicans, Sean Duffy should have sent them this letter. www.inquirer.com/opinion/sean...

Philadelphia won't lose much when the Sixers and Comcast demo some vacant storefronts along Market Street. But action must be taken to ensure that we don't end up with another Disney hole. The real answer isn't planning, but getting our local economy humming again. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

The muncipal political parties might be the secret of Montréal's success. Candidates are campaigning on issues they actually control, like bike and bus lanes, rather than ones they don't, like Healthcare policy.

What Philadelphia can take from Montreal — including a mention of local political parties. “In Montreal, however, voters have a real choice. They even have municipal political parties, meaning voters have to form their own opinions about local issues.”

More people should understand that this is standard practice in American urban planning. The zoning on paper is not a real plan for growth, it's the opening bid in a highly politicized negotiation between home builders, elected officials, and activists with the power to kill projects.

Okay now that I've celebrated Mamdani's win, and now that it looks unlikely he'll face any real trouble in the general, I'm going to re-up my concerns about his free bus proposal and cross my fingers that he gets some good advice as mayor. publiccomment.blog/p/no-such-th...

Great post from @dpearsonphl.bsky.social

I think the closest thing to this is the Philadelphia @inquirer.com

Hilariously on-the-nose paragraph about a Cambridge NIMBY: white professor of African art history uses ChatGPT to analyze the city’s demographics if you exclude…uh…any young adult affiliated with a university (but of course not the professors like her) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: Trump administration's effort to stop NYC's congestion pricing is blocked, as Judge Lewis Liman, a Trump appointee, issues a 109-page opinion granting a preliminary injunction to the challengers defending the congestion pricing program. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

People love to claim that Americans just don't want to ride trains but even the inadequate service offered by Amtrak is super popular.

City Council and local Democrats are leaving Philadelphians vulnerable to protect a political ally. Even worse, their support for Bilal undermines their criticism of the President at a time when we cannot afford hypocrisy. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

There were no drones, and (I think) the government was nervous about telling the public that given the number of politicians who lost their minds to drone delusion. reason.com/2025/05/09/w...

Ken Burns is doing a Nimby college town circuit!

If you did not get to purchase a fresh soft pretzel right in your classroom for recess in grade school, I’m sorry.

Update: Commonwealth Ct has ordered judicial candidate Michael Huff removed from the primary ballot. TL;DR: It was his burden to prove that he no longer intended Bala Cynwyd to be his permanent home, and the Court did not find his testimony credible that he had fully moved to Phl & intended to stay.

1. The Philadelphia Inquirer isn't owned by a cowardly and conflicted billionaire, but a nonprofit foundation. In 2024, we tackled the "The Trump Threat" of authoritarianism head on, with more than 40 hard-hitting editorials. Many of you took notice, and now, so did the prestigious Poynter Institute

Instead of forcing devastating cuts on the system, Harrisburg Republicans should be crowing about how their past efforts have kept SEPTA from seeing the same level of cost inflation as similar transit agencies. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Too many Americans lose their driver's licenses b/c of debt (which doesn't affect other people's safety) and too few b/c of reckless driving (which absolutely does).

Good morning from … {checks notes} … the Supreme Court of the United States

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

I can’t believe I’ve sunk a decade of my life into covering this asshole, I wanted to do other things like I’ve never gotten back into video games

Even (especially) on TikTok they know that norms around bus fare have broken down

State Rep. Morgan Cephas is right. “We have to invest in each other in order for Pennsylvania to thrive” www.inquirer.com/transportati...

This man is a rabid dog and I love him

So this is how the National Security Council works now.

I am rooting for this because to hell with Strom Thurmond.

Elon doesn't have proper American values. Maybe in his culture it is acceptable to father children on multiple women and deprive nearly all of them of your fatherly presence, but in this country we call that behavior shameful, or at least we used to.

A good research project to do is to tally up how many housing units get collectively removed between ZBA, Historical Commission, and RCO meetings across the city in a year. Almost certain this tallies up to 3-400 at least

Let me guess, they’re expressing concerns in private.

damn, oil companies are telling the dallas fed that trump is killing them www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

The entire administration is basically daring Goldberg to release the entire chat (which he very much should)

When Wanamaker’s opened in 1876, the Philadelphia Times wrote shoppers would be “struck dumb with astonishment.” That’s how I felt when my family visited on the store’s last day. #longreads defector.com/one-last-tri...

Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/