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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
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One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to get people the resources they need to become better, more engaged citizens of their city.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
A recent article in The Philadelphia Inquirer explored the legacy of the 70-plus Rite Aid pharmacies that have closed in the Philadelphia region since 2022. While these store closures are problematic because many of them sit vacant for months afterward, a bigger issue remains with those stores that are open: their Plexiglass locked shelves.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind |Russell Shorto |Ezra Klein
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These titles are available in The New Urban Order bookshop, and via bookshop.org, where you can select your favorite local independent bookstore to receive the proceeds from your purchase.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
The newest batch of Census data is out — a five-year look back on the state of America through the lenses of housing, income, fertility, and more. It is chock-full of data, which you can cut up into random sound bites, like the median age of Americans is 38.7 years old, Syracuse leads the country in child poverty, fewer grandparents are raising children, perhaps due to a decline in opioid-related deaths, and other stats. I am likely going to dive into this data and create future posts from it.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
The other day, a friend from out of town asked me what I thought of Mayor Cherelle Parker’s first year. I struggled to think of anecdotes beyond street cleaning, the Kensington community revival plan, a proposed stadium deal, and a lower homicide rate. Had I missed something, or was that really all to remember from Parker’s first year in office — a year so hotly anticipated after years of underwhelming mayoral leadership from Jim Kenney?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
This week, I attended the Cornell Urban Tech Summit, which focused on the role of technology in helping cities adapt to climate change. It was a really good event, and I left feeling pretty pumped about the way that technology will be helpful to city governments and investors to advance urban resilience. Projects like ClimateIQ are using AI to speed up the process of crunching data to help communities better understand their climate risk.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
One of the most shocking aspects of the 2024 election is just how many more people voted Republican this year than in 2020 — not just in rural areas, but in cities. In Philadelphia, where I live, about 35,000 fewer people voted this year than in 2020 (worth noting: the city lost 53,000 people between 2020 and 2023). And yet, even with a smaller base of voters, 8,000 more Philadelphians voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
Do Something
One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to get people the resources they need to become better, more engaged citizens of their city.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
The Philadelphia Citizen practices solutions-based journalism. We don’t just report on the challenges our city faces, we report the potential solutions to those challenges. In this story: Despite putting the pandemic behind us, it changed the way we live and feel, and not necessarily for the better.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Diana Lind
Four-and-a-half years since the onset of the pandemic, several recovery metrics have plateaued. According to the latest American Time Use Survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which gathered data from 2023, 35 percent of American workers did some or all of their work at home last year, just 1 percent more than in 2022.
