Every neighborhood should have a grocery store. Not just a corner store or a dollar store, but a place to buy fresh produce, meat and pantry staples at a fair price: the same kind of baseline amenity as a library branch, pharmacy, or transit stop. Governments across the country are stepping up to make that … Continue reading A 100-Year-Old Idea for Feeding American Cities

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It’s back-to-school time in Philadelphia, a region with a whopping 32 colleges and universities, aptly earning the unofficial nickname of the “city of eds and meds.” This time of year is super exciting for all students, but especially those who are new here. Welcome. Here’s a quick primer, plus a more complete guide for how … Continue reading The Guide to Philadelphia for College Students Who Care

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It’s almost a rite of passage: Young adults are perennially scrutinized for their spending habits, career choices, and financial decisions. And then, eventually, as they come of age in the workforce, the world is forced to listen to them. That moment is now arriving for Gen Z. Although the younger end of Gen Z (overall, … Continue reading Keeping Gen Z in Philly

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This year, the United States of America celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding. The American Revolutionary War was fought between April 1775 and September 1783, though the war for independence wasn’t “formalized” until the next year, when the Second Continental Congress, right here in Philadelphia, passed the Lee Resolution for Independence on July 2, … Continue reading Things to Do This Week For America’s 250th

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This July, just about 10 days after the country — and Philadelphia — celebrated the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, good governance nonprofit Committee of 70 welcomed hundreds of U.S. democracy fans to the sold-out Promise of Democracy 250th Summit, for which The Citizen was a partner. C70 President and CEO Lauren Cristella described … Continue reading RECAP: What We Saw at the Promise of Democracy 250th Summit

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This summer, animal shelters ran out of room. Philadelphia’s ACCT Philly took in more than 600 animals in a single week in late July, the highest weekly intake the organization says it has seen in more than a decade — leaving just two empty dog crates in the entire building and forcing staff to euthanize … Continue reading Guest Commentary: Doing Right by Your Pet

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One hundred and thirty years ago this August, a 28-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois moved into a one-room apartment at 700 Lombard Street with his wife Nina and walked out into Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward to ask Black Philadelphians how they were living. The University of Pennsylvania had commissioned the study but had not created a faculty … Continue reading Guest Commentary: Black Philly History, Today

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In fall 2022, Victoria Pinkley was newly settled at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Mount Holly, NJ, and pregnant with her first child. She and her husband, both serving in the U.S. Air Force, had left family behind in Arkansas and Oklahoma — which meant there was no one nearby to host a baby shower, a … Continue reading You Get a Car Seat! And You Get a Car Seat!

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Donald Trump keeps telling Americans we’re in a “golden age” of economic prosperity. Yet Americans are experiencing a very different reality than the one the president lives in. Our monthly jobs reports also reflect reality, no matter how much the administration is trying to spin them. Ali Velshi breaks down the reality. Inflation is increasing costs … Continue reading Listen: Ali Velshi Tells a Tale of Two Economies

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Wake up Philly, new festivals dropped. It’s a big week for celebrating music, culture, food, and more in a huge happy crowd, so if that’s your thing, get ready for your list of things to do! The Philadelphia Folk Festival returns to the Old Pool Farm in Montgomery County, while the Philadelphia Caribbean Festival and … Continue reading Fun Things to Do in Philly this Week and Weekend

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It sounds ridiculous to say it: But, walking is being reinvented as an appointment activity. Forget about those walking tours where you follow a person hoisting a flag telling you about the city’s history while people with cameras slung over their chests gape. Forget being a flâneur, aimlessly wandering the city. Instead, now thousands of … Continue reading The New Urban Order: Walking the Unbeaten Path

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When Daniel Blank, managing director of public programs for the Free Library of Philadelphia, set out to curate this fall’s Author Event series, he purposefully scheduled both writers who have global stature (Kentucky Governor and presidential contender Andy Beshear, New Yorker writer and public intellectual Malcolm Gladwell) and those who are best known locally (sports … Continue reading The Citizen Recommends: Free Library Author Event Series

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Children walking to Russell M. Conwell Middle Magnet School in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood often negotiate treacherous paths through open-air drug markets, passing dirty, discarded needles and individuals who seem to have died on their feet or lay curled in the street. But when they reach the school and its new soccer park, green and pristine, … Continue reading Is Fútbol Fever Here to Stay?

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