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Mayor Jim Kenney's education legacy: local control and more money

9 people shot and wounded, 5 of them critically, in Philadelphia

Philadelphia shooting leaves 9 injured

PHILADELPHIA Four people remain in critical condition after a shooting that wounded nine people on a busy northeast Philadelphia street over the weekend, police said.

Effort to legalize weed in Pennsylvania faces complicated demands

A House Democratic Policy Committee hearing in Philadelphia highlighted the multitude of demands that lawmakers have to satisfy criminal and economic justice, work-related and driver safety, and more to get a recreational marijuana legalization bill passed in Pennsylvania.

Welcome to Pennsylvania's very progressive 2022 Democratic Senate primary

Welcome to Pennsylvania’s very progressive 2022 Democratic Senate primary Julia Terruso, The Philadelphia Inquirer Both Pennsylvania Democrats in the state’s high-stakes Senate race support a $15 federal minimum wage and getting rid of the filibuster to make it happen. Both want student loan forgiveness and support some aspects of sweeping environmental legislation on par with the Green New Deal. One is a longtime advocate for marijuana legalization, the other a vocal champion for LGBTQ rights. And both regularly dish out snarky critiques of Republicans on MSNBC. Pennsylvania’s 2022 Democratic Senate primary is off to a pretty progressive start. That two progressive candidates Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta are the first in the contest reflects how the ascendant left has become the energizing force in Democratic politics, even with the comparatively moderate President Joe Biden in the White House. The race to replace the retiri