Other U.S. cities offer municipal composting, repair and recycle more goods and charge to collect garbage. Our City should ...

Philadelphia recently passed legislation requiring employers to accommodate workers’ menstrual and post-menstrual symptoms.

Newly won control in Harrisburg could allow Democrats to implement gun reform legislation, including ghost gun bans ...

On Tuesday, November 3, Philadelphians voted to adapt the Home Rule Charter (basically a user’s manual for our city government) by answering “Yes” to both ballot measures, aka ballot questions. Ballot ...

This year's Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, for which The Citizen is a media sponsor, includes 75 films, special events and workshops ...

Chicago's Recovery Legal Care program has helped patients access $1.2 million in victims' benefits, while cutting their risk ...

“We will not be bullied” by data centers, Governor Josh Shapiro said this past August. He had just signed an executive order restricting their development in Pennsylvania. The promised productivity ...

During last year’s Citizen of the Year Awards — what CEO/President Larry Platt likes to call the ESPYs of civic engagement — Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Jane Golden encouraged “everyone, please keep ...

Change came quietly to Port Richmond, and it came before dawn. A year ago, four residents began taking early morning walks through streets lined with 100-year-old brick rowhouses in the working-class, ...

Sixteen years ago, Chris Rabb wrote a book touting conscious capitalism. Now he’s a Democratic Socialist. Did he change — or ...