Carl Solanos sister is 58 years old, but, with her Down syndrome, her mental age has been pegged at less than 1. Since the 1960s, shes lived at the White Haven Center, a state-run Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) about 100…
Tomorrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for The Third Circuit in Philadelphia will hear arguments from the ACLU and lawyers for the federal government and federal agents on the case of Nick George, a college student who was detained for…
On crisp fall weekends on the banks of the Delaware River in Bensalem, sportsmen gather at the Philadelphia Gun Club and enjoy an activity their forebears have shared for 135 years: Releasing pigeons into the air, and then shooting them…
With all the advocacy efforts by numerous civil rights and community organizing groups around the voter ID law and despite a frankly lame and only recently breaking public-information campaign by the state inciting would-be voters to “Show It” …
As of Nov. 7, the Roxy the last movie theater standing in Center City west (provided you don’t count the Forum) is scheduled to shut its doors, according to Joe Mitchell of San-Mor, the company that owns…
On a recent evening in Nicetown, plastic bags and scraps of paper blew across Germantown Avenue like tumbleweeds. Inside the New Inspirational Baptist Church, state Rep. Rosita Youngblood and state Sen. Shirley Kitchen tried (and, it must be admitted, largely…
David Kaplan had a problem. He was hurtling toward the end of a three-year sentence in state prison, and he had nowhere to go. He wanted to return to Philadelphia to be near his teenage son, but he was terrified…
One week before he started work at Temple University Hospital in April 2010, David Kwiatkowski had been fired and had tested positive for cocaine and marijuana, according to his prior employer, the Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix. Yet, amid a…
Dating to 1676 and hidden under a parking lot just north of Vine Street for the past 24 years, the West Shipyard is being unearthed for just two weeks, in an archaeological dig open to the public July 19-20 (see…
Constitutional due process, in most U.S. courts, guarantees the right to cross-examine your accuser. But for those fighting parking tickets at the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication (BAA), its a different story, since the BAA hearing examiner can decide whether to…
