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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney joined Solomon Jones on Wake Up With WURD to talk Pre-K, beverage tax [...]

In the hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in on Friday, the battle for America’s soul [...]

“We’re Philadelphia and we fight.” That’s what Chip Kelly said early in his tenure as head coach of [...]

If ideas died with people, America would have won the fight against modern-day terrorism by killing al-Qaeda [...]

I find it ironic that as Pope Francis comes to join us for the World Meeting of Families, [...]

I AM NOT Catholic, but I understand the significance of the upcoming papal visit. In short, the [...]

I'M STARTING to fear for the future of Philadelphia's children, because education seems to have taken a [...]

THE INVESTIGATION that led to the 2012 child molestation conviction of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry [...]

The journey to hell and back THE STREETS WERE dangerous, but I survived them because I had a loving [...]

AS A MEMBER organization in a coalition called the Campaign To Take Back Vacant Land, the Women's Community [...]

WHEN COLUMBIA Avenue was Jump Street, and Ridge Avenue was a vital commercial artery that snaked through [...]