By Kate Dolan State Senator Art Haywood, who serves the 4th district, which includes Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy, conducted a live telephone town hall meeting to address community members’ concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans and Doctor Scott Goldstein, an emergency medicine physician at Einstein Healthcare Network and Director of EMS […]

The steel-and-glass canyons of Center City Philadelphia are quiet, with office staff working from home, restaurants shut except for takeout, and residents under orders to avoid groups. But at Republic Bank headquarters, upstairs at Liberty Place, it’s “all hands on deck” for the team charged with keeping small and mid-sized business clients from falling apart, […]

Those who are new at receiving products from a food bank usually have to sign a declaration that they’re truly in need. With the unanimous help of Pennsylvania’s members of Congress and the U.S. Senate, the process has gotten a bit quicker when the novel coronavirus pandemic has led to joblessness among thousands in the […]

Faced with plummeting ridership and service reductions amid the coronavirus crisis, SEPTA is taking steps to mitigate “mounting operating losses” while it awaits possible federal relief funding for transportation agencies across the nation. SEPTA has instituted a 10% pay reduction for General Manager Leslie S. Richards and its executive team, effective immediately, Richards wrote in […]

PHILADELPHIA – On February 26th, State Rep. James Roebuck, D-Phila., and Congressman Dwight Evans, (D-PA-03) congratulated D.C. Humphrys for its more than 33-year commitment to the Kingsessing community, which recently won the company a $1 million state grant to expand its manufacturing space. Roebuck was instrumental in securing the funding with Evans’ support. Roebuck said […]

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25, 2020 — D.C. Humphrys was awarded a $1,000,000 Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grant by the Pennsylvania Office of the Budget. This sum will be combined with a matching investment from D.C. Humphrys in order to construct additional manufacturing space and create a significant number of new production jobs over the next […]

Since the founding in 1892, the Sierra Clun has protected America’s wild places and wildlife. The Sierra Club is committed to promoting clean energy solutions to move the nation beyond dirty fossil fuels like coal, oil, and dangerous nuclear power — and toward a safe, clean energy future built on energy efficiency, clean energy, and […]

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Mercy Sister Mary Scullion, co-founder and executive director of Project HOME, an organization that helps the homeless in Philadelphia, was one of the many guests who attended the Feb. 4 State of the Union, which she hoped would draw attention to homelessness and inspire federal aid to alleviate it. The woman religious, […]

Originally published here. Sister Mary Scullion, Philadelphia’s nationally renowned expert on homelessness, will attend the State of the Union address Tuesday night as a guest of Philadelphia Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans. Evans, like other members of Congress, is allowed to bring one person to the House of Representatives to hear President Donald Trump’s speech. He […]

Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3rd) will welcome Sister Mary Scullion, co-founder of Project HOME, as his guest to this year’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Project HOME is an influential nonprofit that, on top of helping people experiencing homelessness, works to break the cycle of poverty that causes homelessness. The organization, which has attracted […]