Rich world’s growing civil unrest has an insurance sting
A category of insurance risk that hardly existed a little over a decade ago has morphed into a meaningful source of losses for the industry. Claims tied to SRCC —…
Flyers continue to fight local hunger one assist at a time: ‘We needed to do more, plain and simple’
The Flyers and Penn Medicine have partnered up to donate 13,750 pounds of food, which accounts for over 9,000 meals, so far this season as part of their Penn Medicine…
Will factory-built housing take off in California this year?
By Ben Christopher | CalMatters As the first home rolled off the factory floor in Kalamazoo, Michigan — “like a boxcar with picture windows,” according to a journalist on the…
One of Philly’s last architecturally intact old movie theaters is officially recognized as historic
The Circle Theatre in Frankford, built in 1929 for what was once the largest movie theater chain in the country, is now officially recognized as historic. The Philadelphia Historical Commission…
People — and robots — are getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year in China
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO BEIJING (AP) — It’s not just people — in China, the robots are also getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Friday was dress rehearsal…
The city spent millions to grow one anti-violence nonprofit. Instead, it nearly imploded.
Philadelphia and state officials awarded more than $6 million in taxpayer funds over the last five years to a politically connected but financially unstable anti-violence nonprofit, despite repeated warnings from…
An ex-Philly City Council aide from a prominent political family is accused of sexual harassment
After Sharif Street Jr. got into a highly public fight at Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s 2024 inauguration ceremony, his boss, City Councilmember Jim Harrity, extended him some grace. Harrity, who…
In the Arctic, the major climate threat of black carbon is overshadowed by geopolitical tensions
By PETER PRENGAMAN REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking…
They became ‘chosen brothers’ in a maximum-security prison. Then one got out.
Scott Harmon and Mark Williams met each other in a maximum-security prison in the heart of Pennsylvania coal country in 2012. They had both grown up in the Philly area;…
Unmasking ICE in Philly could test the limits of local power over federal agents
One of the lasting images of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign will be the masks worn by federal immigration agents. The widespread use of facial coverings by U.S. Immigration…