Pennsylvania Working Families, a labor-backed progressive group, accidentally sent a reported 30,000 Philadelphians mailings directing them to the wrong polling places. Unsurprisingly, the mass-mailed error has created a bit of a mess. Election watchdogs at Committee of Seventy report that…

John Colombo This shuttered coke plant in Monessen was recently reopened by ArcelorMittthal, a decision that is expected to create 200 jobs. The flier accusing Westmoreland County state Sen. Allen Kuko­vich of having ‘campaigned in gay bars in Philadelphia’ with…

Evan Lopez Republican Gov. Tom Corbett faces a long-shot re-election match against Democrat Tom Wolf in Tuesday’s general election. Voters, it seems, like small-government conservatism more in theory than in practice, and no one dislikes Corbett more than Philadelphians harmed…

Source: CFCF security camera footage. Guard Tyrone Glover punches prisoner Prisoner John Steckley at Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in January. Prisoner John Steckley looks like he might have been mouthing off as he walked out of the visitors’ room at…

Neal Santos A debt notice from a collection agency contracted by Philadelphia courts. It was hard not to find the 2009 Inquirer headline “Violent Criminals Flout Broken Bail System” troubling. The paper reported that scofflaw defendants owed about $1 billion…

Neal Santos Jose, 36, of North Philadelphia, holds up a collection notice he received in this 2012 file photo. The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, the city’s court system, initiated a campaign in 2011 to squeeze the city’s poorest residents…

Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility The Philadelphia Prison System says it takes allegations of brutality against inmates seriously, and is investigating an alleged attack last week at the city’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. But prison spokesperson Shawn Hawes would not say what the…

Representatives of local government agencies and the city’s leading social-service organizations watched in horror yesterday as a corrections officer at Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility viciously beat an inmate, according to three witnesses interviewed by City Paper. “I saw this officer…

Two weeks ago, a preppy mob allegedly staged a brutal attack against two men in Center City because they were gay. This is a reminder that homophobia persists despite the recent social revolution in favor of everyone’s rights to love,…