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After a raucous public comment period, Philadelphia City Council moved to ban supervised injection sites for narcotics across most of the city. Council voted 13-1 vote on Bill #230410 to ban any site that “that provides space for any person to inject, ingest, inhale,...

Philadelphia’s city council voted Thursday to largely ban facilities where people can consume illegal drugs under the watch of workers trained to reverse overdoses — a blow for advocates who say implementing such initiatives can help curb the deadly toll of the...

Council passed a law on Thursday that effectively bans supervised injection sites for illegal drug users in most sections of the city, except for the 3rd Council District, which includes West and parts of Southwest Philadelphia. Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, who...

Philadelphia City Council voted Thursday to prohibit supervised drug consumption sites across most of the city, greatly imperiling the future of such a facility if the legislation becomes law. The bill, which passed 13-1 during Council’s first meeting of the fall...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — In a tumultuous return from the summer break, City Council passed legislation that would bar safe injection sites in most of the city, following heated public testimony. The bill changes zoning codes in nine out of 10 City Council...

Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are championing a bill that would require the state’s children to learn Asian American and Pacific Islander history and culture in their classrooms. The goal is to combat a rise in racist crimes against people of AAPI descent with a more...

To emphasize the importance of expanding Philadelphia's tree canopy, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is opening a public art space at Awbury Arboretum in Germantown. The Lightning House was built on the remains of a carriage house that dates back to 1783. The...

She’s a 10-year-old refugee girl from Syria. Since 2021, she has walked more than 6,000 miles in 15 different countries. And she’s a giant, 12-foot-tall puppet. Little Amal has become a global symbol of the plight of refugees and their human rights since she was first...

State lawmakers from Philadelphia are trying to pass new legislation that would help prevent rowhomes from being damaged by adjacent demolitions and reduce defects in newly built houses. Democratic sponsors don’t anticipate pushback from their Republican colleagues,...

PENNSYLVANIA — State Senators Maria Collett and Nikil Saval this week introduced Senate Bill 839, aiming to incorporate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) curriculums in Pennsylvania schools. The move comes in response to a surge in bias crimes against people...

TWO PENNSYLVANIA STATE senators introduced on Thursday a bill that incorporates Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) instruction in K-12 schools. About the bill: Senate Bill 839, introduced by State Sens. Maria Collett and Nikil Saval, will require the Department of...

HARRISBURG – Two PA state senators want to expand education and confront the rise in bias crimes against people of Asian American and Pacific Islander or AAPI descent. Montgomery County Sen. Maria Collett and Philadelphia County Sen. Nikil Saval have introduced Senate...

Hate is on the rise in Pennsylvania. Frequently inspired by ignorance and encouraged with dog whistles, a resurgence of bigoted rhetoric is being focused on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. State Senators Maria Collett (D-12) and Nikil Saval (D-1) introduced...

The fight for the teaching of Asian American studies is being waged this school year from K-12 through college. In Southern California, Anaheim Union High School District is offering a course about the Korean American experience. It’s believed to be the first of its...

Back in April, I wrote about the serious problem of landlord-tenant officers in Pennsylvania, who have extraordinary power with very little training. I detailed the March case of 35-year-old Angel Davis, shot in the head and nearly killed by a so-called...

Training and transparency are key elements of new eviction procedures released Friday by the Landlord and Tenant Office of the Philadelphia Municipal Court. The new guidelines will take effect starting this week, when the moratorium on evictions end. The eviction...

Philadelphia’s landlord-tenant officer may soon be back in business after putting a brief moratorium on evictions. Marisa Shuter, the court-appointed attorney who oversees the city’s unusual and controversial system of using private security contractors to perform...

Bernie Sanders arrived in Ann Arbor in late winter, his future to be decided in two days. Thousands of students thronged the University of Michigan campus, gripping their blue-and-white signs, one so overcome with emotion she battled back tears as Sanders spoke. Above...

A woman who was shot in the head during an eviction earlier this year is taking the matter to court. Angel Davis, a former resident of Girard Court Apartments who suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was shot by a security contractor hired by the city's...

After three shootings in four months, the pressure continues to mount on Philadelphia Municipal Court to change how it handles evictions.

Momentum appears to be building behind an effort to reform Philadelphia’s eviction system, as a woman who was shot in the head during a lockout earlier this year filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the landlord-tenant officer. Several state and local lawmakers stood next...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A woman who was shot in the head by the person serving her an eviction notice is suing Philadelphia’s landlord-tenant officer and pushing the city to make some changes to how it manages evictions.

A Philadelphia tenant and city officials are calling on the state to get involved and take action against the landlord-tenant officer whose contractors have been involved in multiple shootings during evictions in the past four months. Angel Davis -- a 35-year-old...

A Philadelphia woman who was shot in the head by a private security contractor hired to remove her from her home filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit Tuesday, challenging the city’s unusual for-profit eviction system. An attorney representing Angel Davis, a former tenant...

Close to 2,000 members of the Center for Popular Democracy as well as Philadelphia based affiliates CASA, Make the Road PA, OnePA and other allies gathered on Saturday to march on City Hall to call for a significant investment in nationwide green social housing that’d...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The city’s Landlord-Tenant Office has agreed to temporarily suspend evictions, following a shooting in Port Richmond last week. But a Pennsylvania senator wants to permanently bar private entities from handling evictions.

Speaker Joanna McClinton, Senator Nikil Saval, and PA Representative Donna Bullock joined Google to help teach kids how to stay safe and secure online at the Xtreme 5 Teen Tech Summit Google’s Online Safety Roadshow was presented to students at the 3rd Annual Xtreme5...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Striking actors belonging to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists brought their case to Philadelphia and held a rally at LOVE Park Thursday morning. The rally comes as members of SAG and the Writers Guild of...

Actors and writers in SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild are on strike together for the first time since the 1960s. Thursday, union members from Philadelphia held a lunchtime rally at LOVE Park to explain their demands. SAG-AFTRA officials say the studios are unwilling...

Philadelphia's landlord-tenant office agreed Wednesday to halt evictions until its employees and contractors have received up-to-date trainings on de-escalation and use of force procedures. Since March, three deputy officers have opened fire during eviction lockouts,...