Their mission is to diffuse a mental health crisis. They don’t have sirens or flashing lights. Unlike police, they don’t have handcuffs and guns. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
The Philadelphia theater scene is about to get even more queer with the introduction of a new nonprofit theater company, The Strides Collective. | From: Philadelphia Gay News (Read more.)
For almost 10 years The Food Trust’s Healthy Corner Store Initiative (HCSI) and Heart Smarts Program has been working to transform corner stores, often disparaged as a nutritional wastelands, into community health hubs by combining training, equipment and marketing materials for owners with regular nutrition education and incentives for shoppers. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
During the first two years of the Covid pandemic, homebuyers fought over a limited supply of for-sale housing, often finding out that they were beaten by all-cash corporate offers. Now we wonder: Will these homes ever come back on the market, and what happens to the tenants who live in these new rental properties? | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Philly-based Women’s Way hosted its first Gender Wealth Summit earlier this month to start a conversation about barriers to wealth and how we can challenge them. | From: Technical.ly (Read more.)
More than half the roughly 350 workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art went on strike Monday, throwing up picket lines at entrances to the main building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and at the entrances to the Perelman Building across Kelly Drive and at the Rodin Museum down the Parkway. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Several hundred union nurses, health technicians, dietitians, and other workers staged an informational picket Friday to raise awareness in the community about what they call unsafe working conditions at the city’s largest general acute care hospital. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The University City Townhomes debacle is a microcosm of much of what ails Philadelphia — ours is a city where we compartmentalize crises while pretending there’s no connection between them. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Last year the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought deadly tornadoes and flooding to the Philadelphia region, killing several people, damaging homes and businesses, and filling the Vine Street Expressway like a canal. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
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