Heritage staffers walk out amid latest strife at MAGA institution
More than a dozen employees of the Heritage Foundation walked away from their jobs over the weekend as the right-wing think tank struggles with allegations of antisemitism and as the…
Drexel’s Terrence Butler died two years ago. The reasons for his passing still elude everyone who loved him.
BRANDYWINE, Md. — No one knows exactly when Terrence Butler began keeping a journal, but there is a best guess. The first and only time someone noticed that he was…
Brooklyn man’s retrial for murder dismissed after he spent 11 years in prison
A Brooklyn man who served 11 years in jail for a murder he did not commit received an early Christmas gift on Friday — his freedom. Derrick Ulett, 38, was…
Will the Philadelphia Police Department ever be free of scandal? | Editorial
By most accounts, the Philadelphia Police Department has had a good year. Crime is down, a majority of residents feel safer and many give Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel high marks.…
Letters to the Editor | Dec. 19, 2025
Sad and sickening I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around Donald Trump’s vile comments about Rob Reiner’s death. To watch anyone, least of all the president of…
City Council bill would ban housing from former Hahnemann University Hospital area
Philadelphia Councilmember Jeffery “Jay” Young introduced legislation at the last City Council meeting of 2025 that would ban residential development from the area that once housed Hahnemann University Hospital. The…
Inside the chaotic, magical world of a Philly-area Santa at Christmastime
“Santa Kringle” is always dashing away somewhere. In the early morning, when creatures are just starting to stir, he is an Uber driver, taking people to the airport or their…
Banning cell phones would fix a problem that doesn’t exist
Like many states, Pennsylvania is weighing a “bell-to-bell” mandatory ban on cell phones in school. Like a social contagion, these laws have spread despite lack of evidence that they are…
City Council unlikely to consider bill that’d permit more Airbnb rentals in NYC
A City Council bill that would allow more New Yorkers to open their homes for short-term rentals appears effectively dead as the chamber is not expected to consider the measure…
Ocean City’s Dollhouse Row was her dream. Now it’s her winter wonderland.
Driving up Wovern Place in Ocean City feels like entering a Hallmark movie set. It’s where nine homes — 800 square feet or smaller — stand shoulder to shoulder on…