Congress finally passed an infrastructure bill last week after months of unsightly sausage-making and the details of the final $1.2 trillion package are still trickling out as everyone digests what the local effects are likely to be for the Philadelphia region. The bill is massive and you can find a good high-level summary of the […]

The vast majority of the more than 10,000 homes with “tangled titles” are concentrated in North, West and Southwest Philadelphia, in neighborhoods where mostly African American and Latino people live, said city Register of Wills Tracey L. Gordon. “We know where these homes are,” Gordon said. “We need to come up with some quick solutions. […]

The backbone of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, known as the Build Back Better plan, passed the U.S. House on Friday morning and heads to the Senate where the $1.9 trillion social spending bill is expected to trimmed. Regardless of where the final numbers land, Pennsylvania Democrats are hailing the passage as a win for […]

Whether it is expanding child care, making sure that children have access to clean water or investing in broadband and public transportation, most everything in the $1 trillion infrastructure law will benefit African-American communities, according to some federal lawmakers. “If you talk about investing in public transportation, Black fathers and mothers take public transportation to […]

The beating of a teenager on a subway in Philadelphia this week has reignited fears in the city’s Asian communities about racially motivated violence, and it’s left some students worried for their safety commuting to and from school. On Friday, the family of the 18-year-old Asian American student who was assaulted in an incident caught […]

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — We’re hearing exclusively from the mother of a teenager being called a hero. She was injured in an attack on Asian students aboard a SEPTA train that was caught on camera. It’s an attack that police say was motivated by race. CBS3 talked to the mother of the 18-year-old girl seen being […]

The massive infrastructure $1 trillion package passed by Congress means Pennsylvania is slated to receive billions in funding. President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes $1 billion for the Reconnecting Communities Initiative designed to rectify damage caused by highways predominantly built through communities of color. U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, co-sponsored the plan to help […]

WASHINGTON (WPVI) — President Joe Biden signed his hard-fought $1 trillion infrastructure deal into law Monday before a bipartisan, celebratory crowd on the White House lawn, declaring that the new infusion of cash for roads, bridges, ports and more is going to make life “change for the better” for the American people. The president hopes […]

Nearly 30 Democratic U.S. House members plan to introduce a resolution censuring their Arizona Republican colleague Rep. Paul Gosar for social media posts that depicted him killing New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. On Sunday, Gosar tweeted from both his official and personal accounts and posted on Instagram a video showing an anime sequence with […]

Delaware Valley U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Montgomery) called the newly-passed infrastructure bill “an economic engine” during a Democratic Zoom press conference touting the legislation. Several Pennsylvania Democratic members of Congress joined the call Wednesday to take a victory lap over the passage of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The Biden administration says […]