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2026

Every Block Party in Philadelphia, Mapped original ↗

19 Sept 2026

Bennett, Princess, and the Streets of Fairmount original ↗

12 Sept 2026

You Have to Be 21 to Buy a Bow and Arrow original ↗

12 Sept 2026

The Free Library of Philadelphia Rocks original ↗

5 Sept 2026

Philly Schools Now Have One Employee for Every Nine Students — Up From One in Fourteen Eleven Years Ago original ↗

5 Sept 2026

Central Office Payroll Nearly Tripled — Even As the District Outsourced 1,328 Bus Drivers and Cafeteria Workers original ↗

5 Sept 2026

Women Earn More Than Men in SDP's Central Office — Less in Schools original ↗

5 Sept 2026

SDP's 26,433 Positions, Mapped by What They Do original ↗

1 Sept 2026

There are 21,543 people employed by the School District of Philadelphia — and three radically different pay structures original ↗

28 Aug 2026

Where Did SDP's 1,017 Operations Positions Go?original ↗

27 Aug 2026

Cool Places in Philadelphia — Some More Places original ↗

26 Aug 2026

The Little Orange Robot in the Dirt original ↗

22 Aug 2026

SDP's C-Suite Grew 10.6x in 11 Years original ↗

22 Aug 2026

The Eagles Onesie original ↗

19 Aug 2026

The Office That Tripled original ↗

15 Aug 2026

The Sheriff's Operational Response to Two Court Summons About Underperformance Is Underwhelming original ↗

13 Aug 2026

Philadelphia Outlawed Rental Price-Fixing original ↗

11 Aug 2026

What Philadelphia Should Do About 311 original ↗

8 Aug 2026

Blocks and Towers original ↗

5 Aug 2026

When 311 Closes a Ticket, 'Closed' Means Different Things in Different Neighborhoods original ↗

1 Aug 2026

The $650K Settlement that Settles Nothing at Selective Philadelphia Schools original ↗

29 Jul 2026

A Second Walk Through Fairmount Finishes the Abandoned Car Project We Started Last Week on a Whim original ↗

26 Jul 2026

The Corners of Philadelphia That Have Called 311 Twenty Times original ↗

25 Jul 2026

Where Philadelphia homeowners may be leaving Homestead money on the table original ↗

25 Jul 2026

Philly's 2027 Property Tax went up a headline 4-7%, but really it's 0-44%original ↗

24 Jul 2026

Cool Places in Philadelphia original ↗

22 Jul 2026

Can One Family Improve Philadelphia's Abandoned Car Problem Through the 311 System? We Tried.original ↗

19 Jul 2026

Income Explains 19% of Philly's 311 Wait Times. The Other 81% Doesn't Care About Income.original ↗

18 Jul 2026

From One Guy Who Doesn’t Want to Buy Another Car Window original ↗

18 Jul 2026

How Long Does 311 Take in Your Neighborhood?original ↗

16 Jul 2026

Shoveling in 1 Business Day, Broken Traffic Signals in 1 Business Day. Philadelphia 311 Meets Both Promises Less Than Half the Time.original ↗

11 Jul 2026

What $120M Could Have Bought original ↗

8 Jul 2026

A third of Philly's open 311 tickets haven't been touched in a year.original ↗

4 Jul 2026

Why Philly Pays Its Sanitation Workers $46,000 in 100° and 15° Weather original ↗

2 Jul 2026

The 30th Street Station at 6am original ↗

1 Jul 2026

The bigger 311 story isn't the gap. It's the wait.original ↗

27 Jun 2026

The 311 Gap Lives in Three Complaints. L&I Owns One of Them.original ↗

20 Jun 2026

The Casino Smoking Loophole original ↗

16 Jun 2026

Most of Philadelphia 311 isn't fixing things. It's answering the phone.original ↗

13 Jun 2026

Poor people wait ~2x longer for service through Philly 311 original ↗

6 Jun 2026

The Case for FP&A Analysts in City Government original ↗

5 Jun 2026

The Developer Who Stopped Me Mid-Sentence original ↗

3 Jun 2026

Appreciating Philadelphia as a Home original ↗

17 May 2026

The Eviction Gamers of Philadelphia original ↗

16 May 2026

The Sheriff's Office Can't Process Deeds original ↗

14 May 2026

The Eviction Backlog — Six to Ten Months from Filing to Safe Access original ↗

12 May 2026

The Broken Machine: How Philadelphia's Eviction System Hurts Everyone original ↗

8 May 2026

The School District's Allocation Crisis original ↗

4 May 2026

The Mismatch original ↗

30 Apr 2026

The Ambush original ↗

26 Apr 2026

Philadelphia's School Admissions Ruling, Explained original ↗

22 Apr 2026

Ghost Agencies original ↗

14 Apr 2026

The Cost of Meetings original ↗

10 Apr 2026

The Friday 4:47pm News Dump original ↗

6 Apr 2026

$3.4 Billion in Annual City Contracts — 90% Late original ↗

2 Apr 2026

The Regressive Revenue Machine original ↗

31 Mar 2026

The Sheriff Bought a $9000 Life-Size Mascot of Herself original ↗

29 Mar 2026

The Controller's Office original ↗

21 Mar 2026

The Price of Understanding original ↗

17 Mar 2026

Before and After: An AI-Native Framework original ↗

13 Mar 2026

Why This Isn't Just Incremental Improvement original ↗

9 Mar 2026

Strategic Implications: From Analysts to Architecture original ↗

5 Mar 2026

When Intelligence Became Free: The Paradigm Shift original ↗

1 Mar 2026

The Bus That Used to Run original ↗

14 Feb 2026

NIH Funding — $1.2 Billion at Risk original ↗

11 Feb 2026

What Were They Actually Trying to Do?original ↗

10 Feb 2026

My Favorite Places in Philadelphia original ↗

9 Feb 2026

The Government Downgraded Their Flood Protection original ↗

8 Feb 2026

A Road That Has Killed Pedestrians for a Decade original ↗

5 Feb 2026

You Pay More if You're Poor original ↗

30 Jan 2026

The 10% Vacant Lot Tax original ↗

25 Jan 2026

The $2.00 Cigarette Tax Nobody Mentions original ↗

21 Jan 2026

Why I Keep Failing to Learn Guitar original ↗

20 Jan 2026

The Highest Real Estate Transfer Tax in America original ↗

17 Jan 2026

The Philadelphia Tax Trap original ↗

12 Jan 2026

Parker cuts W&E tax by 0.01%, saves you $5-10/year. Woohoo original ↗

8 Jan 2026

Gundam Wing: 30 Years Later original ↗

6 Jan 2026

The Parking Tax That Stayed at 15% for Twenty-One Years original ↗

3 Jan 2026

2025

Thirteen More Years of a Bad Tax original ↗

30 Dec 2025

The CFO Timing Paradox: Why Startups Wait Too Long (And Pay For It)original ↗

19 Dec 2025

Traditional Compensation Plans Don't Work: More Cash, Less Equity => Better Motivation at Lower Cost original ↗

17 Dec 2025

The Commission That Was Abolished and Empowered in the Same Code original ↗

21 Nov 2025

The $15 with a Death Date original ↗

19 Nov 2025

The City of Philadelphia Is Checking Turkey Prices Instead of Balancing Its Checkbook original ↗

17 Nov 2025

The Midnight Vendor Ban original ↗

13 Nov 2025

The Horse Code original ↗

9 Nov 2025

The Laundromat Payphone Rule original ↗

5 Nov 2025

The Icebox Law of 1953 original ↗

1 Nov 2025

The Laundromat Curfew original ↗

28 Oct 2025

Philadelphia, the Last City That Will Not Let You Spit original ↗

24 Oct 2025

The $5 Fine That Outlived McKinley original ↗

20 Oct 2025

The 2-Point Block Party original ↗

16 Oct 2025

The Rake Reality: Why Your "Good" Squeeze Play is Likely Losing Money original ↗

9 Oct 2025

Anime and Poetry at the Poker Table original ↗

4 Oct 2025

The CEO Test: If Leadership Can't Figure It Out, Neither Can Your Customers original ↗

28 Aug 2025

The Language Revolution: Why Plain English Beats Clever Copy Every Time original ↗

26 Aug 2025

The Moral Imperative of Learning original ↗

25 Aug 2025

The One-Minute Rule: Why Time to Value Should Be Measured in Seconds original ↗

22 Aug 2025

Stupid Simplicity: The Design Philosophy That Transforms Products original ↗

20 Aug 2025

The First Time He Climbed the Rocky Steps original ↗

11 Aug 2025