Source: Facebook In yet another blow to Philadelphia’s reputation as a welcoming, cosmopolitan city, someone in Old City over the weekend beat hitchBOT, a kindly, human-shaped hitchhiking robot from Canada, to death. Researchers at Ryerson University in Ontario created the…
Mark Stehle City Council may replace Philadelphia’s House of Correction. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced yesterday that his state will “immediately” shut down the Baltimore City Detention Center, a crumbling, fortress-like city jail that, according to the Baltimore Sun, currently…
Wikimedia Commons Most of a human being’s brain development about 90 percent, in fact occurs before a child even turns five, which means proper early-childhood care is crucial to a person’s development later on in life. Sadly, according…
Philadelphia Police Officer Angel Ortiz has been given an administrative job with the department’s Differential Police Response Unit, a police spokesperson confirmed today. The spokesperson, Officer Christine O’Brien, would not give a reason for Ortiz’s reassignment, nor would she confirm…
The City of Philadelphia’s Chief Data Officer, Tim Wisniewski, is currently hard at work creating an inventory of virtually every dataset the city has created, from campaign finance reports filed by city officials to the weekly attendance at city-owned ice…
Sean Benschop has pled guilty to six counts of involuntary manslaughter, as well as charges of aggravated assault, conspiracy, causing a catastrophe, and seven counts of reckless endangerment related to the 2013 collapse of the Salvation Army building on Market…
Source: Temple University Patrick O’Connor is, ostensibly, one of the most powerful men in Philadelphia. He’s an accomplished trial lawyer, the vice chair of one of the nation’s largest law firms Cozen O’Connor and, most notably, chair of…
Jerry Iannelli Michael Wiseman, a member of the legal team representing Tyree Carroll, a 22-year-old East Germantown resident beaten by Philadelphia Police in April, was asked today in a press conference what impact cell phone videos have had on criminal…
Sky Zone Moorestown // $12 for a 30-minute session // 11 miles/30 min. away. 2834 Rte 73 N. Maple Shade Township, N.J., 856-235-4411, skyzone.com. A group of shaggy-haired teens bursts, giggling, out the front door of Sky Zone Moorestown, a…
Source: Wikimedia Commons There sure seem to be a lot of people who believe that Joy Tsin Lau, a dim sum restaurant in Chinatown, may not be the cleanest of establishments. Take, for example, the Philadelphia Department of Health. The…
