Josh Shapiro

Policy

Gov. Josh Shapiro announces $153 million in funding for SEPTA

The governor directed the Department of Transportation to flex federal highway capital funds to prevent the transit agency’s ‘death spiral’

  • By Harrison Cann

Budget

Policy

Flat, falling soda tax revenues have both positive and negative impact

Tax soda – and people drink less of it. But successful soda taxes can create problems for the public health and development programs they support.

  • By SPECIAL TO CITY & STATE

Policy

Policy

Philly Mayor Parker unveils plans, legislative package for proposed 76ers arena complex

The mayor held her second town hall in a week to provide further details about how the city is approaching the next steps in redeveloping the swath of real estate that cuts across the Market East and Chinatown neighborhoods.

  • By Harrison Cann

Transportation

Policy

Philly Mayor Parker, feds mark landmark bridge reopening

The Montgomery Avenue Bridge is the first project to be completed using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds

  • By Harrison Cann

Philadelphia

Politics

76ers arena plan OK’d by Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker despite opposition

The Sixers’s 76 Place proposal has drawn both excitement and criticism since its unveiling in 2022

  • By Harrison Cann

Transportation

Policy

As traffic fatalities increase, so do fears about the future of Vision Zero

A spate of high-profile pedestrian and bicyclist deaths have called Philadelphia’s commitment to protect residents from reckless drivers into question

  • By Harrison Cann

News & Politics

Politics

Cherelle Parker touts public safety efforts and her first city budget during press club speech

The Philadelphia mayor was this month’s featured speaker at the PA Press Club luncheon

  • By Harrison Cann

Budget

Policy

Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker’s $6.37 billion budget – by the numbers

City Council gave initial approval to Cherelle Parker’s first budget as mayor early Thursday

  • By Harrison Cann

Philadelphia

Policy

Five for Friday: Cherelle Parker’s executive orders six months in

Parker has used executive orders early and often to push her campaign priorities

  • By Harrison Cann

Law Enforcement

Policy

Mayor Cherelle Parker’s Kensington ‘resolution’ clears out tent encampment around open-air drug market

The dismantling of tent encampments Wednesday morning came on the final day of a 30-day outreach window in the struggling neighborhood

  • By Harrison Cann

Philadelphia

Politics

Philly’s IT department fires long-tenured staff amid high-level shakeup

At least four top-level positions were eliminated in a restructuring following the appointment of new CIO Melissa Scott.

  • By SPECIAL TO CITY & STATE

Cherelle Parker

Policy

Five things you may have missed from Cherelle Parker’s 100th-day announcements

The Parker administration began to offer some details on plans to address crime and gun violence

  • By Harrison Cann

Philadelphia

Politics

Cherelle Parker details public safety plans on 100th day in office

Parker held a press conference in Kensington Thursday to highlight the administration’s priorities

  • By Harrison Cann

Campaigns & Elections

Politics

Philadelphia officials open first of 10 new election offices in Philadelphia

All new election offices are set to be operational by the November election

  • By Harrison Cann

Philadelphia

Policy

Cherelle Parker’s $6.29B ‘One Philly Budget’ prioritizes public safety, quality-of-life issues

The Philadelphia mayor offered the first glimpse of what her vision for the “safest, cleanest, greenest big city in the nation with economic opportunity for all” might look like

  • By Harrison Cann

Policy

Policy

Cherelle Parker’s $6.29 billion budget – by the numbers

The Philadelphia mayor is delivering her budget plan to City Council Thursday

  • By Harrison Cann

Cherelle Parker

Policy

Mayor Parker has long promised to clean up Philadelphia – but how that happens remains unclear

Her early personnel and policy decisions have advocates questioning if the city will see more of the same

  • By Harrison Cann

Transportation

Policy

SEPTA to receive $317 million federal grant to replace Market-Frankford Line fleet

The federal funding comes amid SEPTA’s financial struggles and transit funding discussions in Harrisburg

  • By Harrison Cann

Transportation

Policy

PHL International Airport gets $20.4 million grant through bipartisan infrastructure bill

The federal grant funding will be used to make energy efficiency improvements in terminals

  • By Harrison Cann

Cherelle Parker

Politics

Sign truck drives around inauguration, thanks Mayor Parker for support of Israel

The digital billboard mirrors one seen outside Pennsylvania Society last month thanking John Fetterman

  • By Harrison Cann
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