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…first proposed the tax in early 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer described it as a “3-cents-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages” that would raise $400 million for Philadelphia’s schools, most for a…

Philadelphia sports teams are not exactly legendary. Since 1983, the four major teams have accounted for exactly one professional championship. Philadelphia sports fans, on the other hand, are absolutely legendary….

…bullet ripping into a young person’s body every 40 hours,” wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Helen Ubiñas. Last month, after a 15-year-old girl was shot in the head in North Philadelphia…

…Philadelphia’s board chairman, Stephen Klasko, the CEO of Jefferson, one of the Northeast’s largest hospital and medical education conglomerates, agreed. Klasko told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the “equity piece” of…

A prominent professor of election law served as an intermediary between Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg and the Philadelphia election board, attempting to broker as much as $3 million in private…

…conference championships set the lineup for Super Bowl LII: The AFC Champion New England Patriots against the NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles. Going into Sunday’s matchups, many football observers expected one…

…the Keystone State. Corruption-riddled Philadelphia has long been ground zero for Democrats’ election-rigging schemes. During the 2020 presidential election, Philadelphia County received the most funding from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center…

…who sentenced him to prison. Mill’s attorneys have been fighting for his release since Nov. 7, when Judge Genece Brinkley sentenced the Philadelphia native to between two and four years…

…basic strategy: They will lose big in the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh (Allegheny County), but must keep the margins close in the four “collar counties” surrounding Philadelphia (Bucks, Chester,…

…last carried the state, it did so on the backs of massive support from suburban Philadelphia. In the City of Brotherly Love, Bush I managed to snag a third of…

The retirement of Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, who recently announced his decision to step away from football after 13 seasons in Philadelphia, brought many tributes about his professional accomplishments….

…million in grants spread across 23 counties, as Shepherd illustrated with powerful graphics, testifying, “Philadelphia had $8.83 cents that could be spent on each ‘Joe Citizen’ registered to vote there,…

The Philadelphia Phillies recently used an exhibition game to unveil their “new” mascot. Their re-designed version of the Phillie Phanatic appeared to significant fanfare from the team, part of the…

…and continuing in the short-lived USFL, followed by the Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers, and Carolina Panthers of the National Football League, White proved a dominant force, perhaps the preeminent…

After Philadelphia cut ties with Catholic Social Services because of the organization’s religious teachings on marriage and family, an autistic boy was kept from returning to his foster mother’s home…

An illegal immigrant who the city of Philadelphia refused to turn over to federal immigration officers in 2014 is now serving a prison sentence for the rape of a child…

…ran rampant in Democrat strongholds across the nation. Here are just a few highlights. Philadelphia, PA Over the weekend, 20 people were shot in the city of Philadelphia, four of…

…voters with invalid ballots received in larger, heavily Democratic areas, such as Philadelphia County, which recorded a whopping 575,975 votes for Biden-Harris compared to Trump’s 128,308, with more than 56…

There’s little shame in losing a game out on the field. Quitting entirely, however, is another story altogether. The controversy about the Philadelphia Eagles’ loss to the Washington Team-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named last…

PHILADELPHIA – Now we know why the GOP convention in Cleveland last week was so quiet: the protesters were saving their fire for the Democratic National Convention this week in…

Last night the Philadelphia 76ers travelled to Cleveland to play the Cavaliers. But the real story was not the game, it was the growing rumor that Cavs superstar LeBron James,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer published an op-ed titled “10 policies Biden must pass in his first 100 days, as drawn by Philly artists,” on Jan. 24. The article, written by Philadelphia…

…happening in many counties in Pennsylvania, especially the larger ones like Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania legislature had just changed the law, no longer requiring an excuse to vote on a paper…

…is best advised to simply go along and admire the paintings, while skipping most of the accompanying text. What You’ll Find in Philadelphia The Philadelphia incarnation of the show has…

…and straightforward opportunity to ensure that these critical social services are no longer in jeopardy. It is considering taking the Philadelphia case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Real children and…

…to Delaware and Chester counties in the Philadelphia metro area. The Philadelphia vote favored Biden by 64 points, and Delaware and Chester voted Biden by 27 and 17 points, respectively….

…failed to pull it down. Later pulled down by the mayor using emergency powers. Christopher Columbus Statue, Philadelphia, PA One hundred forty-four year-old statue ordered removed by the city mayor…

Back in 2007, I lived across the street from a bar called Bob’s Happy Hour Tavern in Fishtown, a white working-class neighborhood northeast of downtown Philadelphia near the Delaware River…

…Married at 17, Tindley and his young wife Daisy moved to Philadelphia in 1868. They had eight children, but buried two daughters. In the midst of tribulation, stand by me…

…a U-turn. New Census Bureau data shows millennials are increasingly trading in urban life for the suburbs and even switching states entirely. My home city of Philadelphia is a prime…

…West Philadelphia. This was one of the family tragedies that drove Margo Davidson, a Democrat who grew up in the neighborhood where Gosnell lurked, to seek state office in 2010….

…activist group that backed him for governor in 2014 and again in 2018. The COVID outbreak was the moment Wolf’s political favor became extremely harmful. As an editorial in Philadelphia’s…

…district from the Philadelphia area and then three-tenths from somewhere else, is hard to draw. Alone, none of the adjacent counties combine with the outermost Philadelphia suburbs to create a…

…letter to Gouverneur Morris who had served in the Philadelphia Convention. Hamilton said that…he wondered glumly why he had wasted so much of his career trying to prop up what…

“Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” has traversed a far longer road to release than its producers ever expected. The true crime drama follows a Philadelphia narcotics investigator…

…For years, his murders went largely unnoticed. Then, in 2010, the Philadelphia police, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Federal Bureau of Investigation raided his place of business. They were looking for…