Former Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos has announced she has taken a job as a high-ranking advisor at HMH, a company that does millions of dollars in city business each year…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — To receive Medicaid health coverage, some adults will soon have to show they are working, volunteering, or taking classes. But to gather that proof, many states…
Calls to remove a south Brooklyn superintendent are mounting after her husband allegedly posed as someone else on social media to attack a union rep for local teachers. The saga…
For the third time in two decades, Philadelphia voters this May will have the opportunity to weigh in on a city rule requiring local elected officials to step down from…
As contract negotiations reached an impasse, St. John’s University this week told two long-standing unions it would stop recognizing them as representatives of the faculty, according to an email to…
This week’s Shackamaxon is all about the numbers. 15 As I write this column, that’s Philadelphia’s total number of homicides for the year so far. It is a 50% decrease…
NEW YORK — A man who fatally beat four sleeping men on the streets of New York City’s Chinatown was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder, with a jury rejecting his…
A criminal justice overhaul The Thursday print edition of The Inquirer provided several reasons why we should applaud the current presidential administration for its contributions to criminal justice reform. For…
Super Pets in Orange is closing at the end of February 2026 after a 12-year run. The pet store at 1807 E. Chapman Ave. is at the corner of Tustin…
CARACAS, Venezuela — Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Venezuela’s capital and across the country last week for Youth Day, asserting their right to demonstrate and calling for…
