Advocates are pushing for inmates at the city’s prison complex in Northeast Philadelphia to be counted as being from where they lived before getting arrested. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
It’s been an issue for the platform for over a decade. There are several reasons people might not want to put their legal name out there, but LGBTQ people have been at the forefront of the effort to get policies updated. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
One resident said that after officers snagged thousands of dollars, they sat in his kitchen and ate hoagies from his fridge. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
The green area outside the school, in the heart of crowded South Philadelphia at Ninth and Mifflin streets, is meant to reduce stormwater runoff and reduce pollution in the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is part of a 25-year city and Philadelphia Water Department initiative called Green City, Clean Waters to expand green spaces in non-residential spaces around the city. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
The legislation will go into effect in 120 days, and prohibits traffic stops for certain low-level offenses. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
This Philly style “Green New Deal” underscores how much sustainability can inform tangible solutions to issues plaguing this community and others like it. | From: Green Philly (Read more.)
Heat is something that is essential in the winter months in Philadelphia, yet there are families across the region that don’t have access to it. To help give back to the community, one local company is acting as an angel of warmth for families come this holiday season—and this isn’t the first or last time they’ll be offering this gift. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
While the new location is still not public, the general manager of Weavers Way, Jon Roesser, says there are great new perks. These include about 5000 square feet of space, a parking lot, a freight elevator, and a loading dock. The GM says their new site would be larger than their flagship Mt. Airy store but smaller than their Ambler location. The store is also hopeful the new building will accommodate a rooftop farm. | From: Germantown Info Hub (Read more.)
Art is our most universal language, and I see clothing as a language in its own right. It’s a symbol. It reveals things about your internal world externally. Growing up, I’ve always created things. It was the only thing that came naturally to me, I could expand my world. I didn’t know the term harm reduction as a teenager, but that’s what I was regularly doing with my art. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
The Executive Order officially established an Office of Environmental Justice within the Department of Environmental Protection and introduced a director of Environmental Justice appointed the DEP secretary. | From: Green Philly (Read more.)
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