It’s Monday night in the basement of the Belfield Recreation Center in Logan, and the 10 or so men and women seated in folding chairs, arranged in a circle, support-group style, are struggling to hear one another over the booming…

In a City Council Rules Committee hearing today, a handful of district City Council members found themselves in a somewhat unaccustomed position: Their various councilmanic prerogatives — the forces that allow neighborhood-specific legislation (like allowing a giant balcony over the…

Those speaking out against the city’s plan, passed in Council this morning, to take by eminent domain 17 privately owned properties in Point Breeze (including some owned and supposedly set for ground-breaking by an active area developer) argued that the…

Stephanie Sherwood of West Chester has been showing her Vizslas, Hungarian pointers, for just three years — meaning she’s new enough to the all-consuming world of dog shows that she still laughs awkwardly when boasting that her 7-month-old puppy, Judit,…

Developers and conservationists have been haggling for months over whether a 50-foot (or 100-foot or 25-foot) stream buffer would be a logical protection to put in place along Philadelphia’s waterfront. Today, legislation to do just that finally moved out of…

If you, like me, are a sucker for a well-executed rendering, then you missed quite the event in the basement of the Bellevue last week. The subject of the exercise in idealistic draftsmanship was a vision for the Avenue of…

As the last polling places are counted for Philly’s state House and Senate candidates, it’s looking like people in the city are, across the board, pretty content with the incumbents. Philly’s lone Republican legislator, longtime Rep. John Taylor, managed to…

From the outrageously dishonest to the merely idiotic, this campaign season has brought some of the most jaw-dropping attack ads we’ve ever witnessed. PACs and interest groups have poured money into smears like calling attorney general candidate Kathleen Kane and…

Afer registration mayhem the past year or two for the increasingly popular Broad Street Run, the 10-mile race is going to a registration lottery, following the template of major marathons around the country. For those who don’t want to chance…