Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2024 12:00 am by Carla Robinson Construction is likely to begin later this year on Mt. Airy’s long-awaited $3.5 million sidewalk improvement project, thanks to Congressman Dwight Evans’ Friday announcement that he had secured more than $13.3 million in federal funding for a series of  local projects, including $500,000 for the Northwest Philadelphia pedestrian […]

“We will finally be repairing a historic wrong,” said U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle. Tom MacDonald Federal funding is going to pay for the covering of the underground portion of the Vine Street Expressway. The goal is to reconnect, or “stitch,” together a fractured community. The Chinatown Stitch project will cover the existing below-ground Vine Street Expressway from 10th […]

Hours after leaving the podium, Biden will travel to the Philadelphia suburbs, a key region for his reelection prospects. President Joe Biden’s speech will be in Washington but there will be signs of Philadelphia all around. When Biden delivers his State of the Union address Thursday night, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker will be in attendance. […]

The award is the largest competitive federal grant SEPTA has won for a project. SEPTA will get $317 million from the federal government toward the purchase of 200 rail cars for the Market-Frankford Line to replace aging models with cracked frames that workers in an Upper Darby repair shop have kept running on the system’s […]

Kiara Santos TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Feb 16, 2024 Updated Feb 17, 2024 0 Philadelphia International Airport is receiving $20 million in new infrastructure funding, officials announced on Friday. The funds are coming from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Airport Terminal Program, created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan […]

SEPTA has been awarded a $317.1 million grant to purchase 200 new cars for the Market-Frankford Line, federal legislators announced Thursday. Social media posts from Sen. Bob Casey and John Fetterman and Congressman Dwight Evans shared the message. The Market-Frankford Line is historically the single busiest route in the city, averaging around 180,000 riders daily […]

February 15, 2024—This week, three HumanGood affordable housing communities in Philadelphia were presented a check from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) totaling $26.48 million in grants from its Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP). The communities were the only ones in the Commonwealth that received funding under the Comprehensive Category in […]

The Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act would allow defendants to access the source code of software used to analyze evidence in their criminal proceedings. By Lauren Feiner, the senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and […]

OIC Philadelphia recently marked its 60th anniversary with a big gala. Hosted at the VIE venue, the event attracted over 600 of Philadelphia’s most influential leaders on Friday, raising $325,000 for the organization’s initiatives. The evening, aptly themed The Beacon on Broad Street, paid homage to the enduring vision of the late Rev. Leon Sullivan, […]