PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, today led four colleagues urging President Biden to appoint a new Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division. There has not been a Senate-confirmed chief tax federal prosecutor in 2,597 days – over seven years. […]

Majeedah Rashid, CEO of the Nicetown CDC, has seen firsthand how a highway extension can rip through a neighborhood and create a de facto border between residents. “Over the years we realized that it divided the community,” Rashid said. “They have that type of mentality like they’re from one part of the neighborhood and somebody else on […]

President Joe Biden laid out his case Tuesday in Philadelphia for enacting a pair of federal voting rights proposals that he says would thwart an assault on voting rights taking “new and literally pernicious forms.” In a nearly 25-minute speech inside the National Constitution Center, Biden said voting regulations enacted in more than a dozen […]

Earlier this year, a group of state lawmakers from Wilmington urged Delaware’s federal delegation to support the idea of putting a cap on top of I-95 to reconnect city neighborhoods that were split in two by the highway’s construction decades ago. On Monday, they got their wish. U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware was joined by […]

Officials are looking to spend significantly to address transportation infrastructure which has created societal divides, in cities like Wilmington where interstate highways run directly through communities. Delaware’s U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester is working with U.S. Representative Dwight Evans (D-Pennsylvania) to try and send communities like Wilmington and Philadelphia $3 billion to reconnect. “The purpose of […]

Nobody in authority heeded Chinatown residents’ objections in the late 1980s before the shovels and earth movers began to claw a trench through the heart of Philadelphia for the Vine Street Expressway, splitting their community in two. On Monday, Democratic U.S. Reps. Dwight Evans of Philadelphia and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware said at a […]

By Mark S. Singel My early summer reading list included the political thriller “The President’s Daughter” authored by former President Bill Clinton and James Patterson. A page turner, the book has an exciting storyline that involves heroes and terrorists. An interesting aspect of the book was some detail about the origin of Mid-East tensions and […]

Members of the Philadelphia Haitian community are making a fuss about the embarrassed assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise. Moise, a 53-year-old former businessman who took office in 2017, was shot dead, and his wife Martine was seriously injured when a heavily armed assassin attacked the couple’s house before dawn on Wednesday. Several suspects were […]

For Mantua residents like De’Wayne Drummond, the intersection at 34th Street and Haverford Avenue in Mantua has always felt dangerous. Drivers cruising the roadway heading southbound often speed into the residential neighborhood. “It has been like Daytona 500 coming down 34th Street for years,” said Drummond, president of the Mantua Civic Association. Now, a $4 […]

On Tuesday, June 28, 2021 the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia hosted a discussion on the urgency for Congress to deliver on immigration reform to give protection to the over 11 million undocumented people living in America. The hour-long event was held virtually and it was posted to Facebook once it concluded. Reverend Christopher Neilson, […]