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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thegreencities.com | Khysir Carter
| For many Philadelphia pedestrians, paying for public transportation can be a significant financial strain, limiting access to essential resources like employment, healthcare, and healthy food. The Zero Fare pilot program was created to address this challenge by improving economic mobility and quality of life for low-income individuals aged 18 to 64. Launched on Aug.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
greenphl.com | Khysir Carter
| For many Philadelphia pedestrians, paying for public transportation can be a significant financial strain, limiting access to essential resources like employment, healthcare, and healthy food. The Zero Fare pilot program was created to address this challenge by improving economic mobility and quality of life for low-income individuals aged 18 to 64. Launched on Aug.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
greenphl.com | Khysir Carter
| In November 2023, the Biden Administration devoted approximately $2 billion in grant funding to support community-driven projects tackling climate and environmental justice challenges. While a significant amount of that funding has already been given to organizations, there is still funding yet to be claimed and other opportunities for environmental justice projects to receive support.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
kensingtonvoice.com | Sammy Caiola |Emily Rizzo |Khysir Carter |Jill Bauer-Reese
A Pennsylvania trust that oversees the local distribution of federal opioid settlement dollars voted Thursday that Philadelphia improperly used $7.5 million for projects to improve quality of life in Kensington. Trust members argued the spending was “noncompliant” with a court order outlining how the funds should be spent.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
kensingtonvoice.com | Sammy Caiola |Jill Bauer-Reese |Emily Rizzo |Khysir Carter
Correction: The original version of this story misstated the locations of methadone and buprenorphine delivery in PDP facilities. This story was also updated to more accurately describe the intake area, the PDP officer shortage, the medical screening process, and what is provided to people exiting incarceration. On a steamy spring afternoon in Northeast Philadelphia, a man pressed his cheek against the window of a holding cell at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on State Road.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
kensingtonvoice.com | Jill Bauer-Reese |Sammy Caiola |Emily Rizzo |Khysir Carter
The Philadelphia Police Department will begin the enforcement phase of Mayor Cherelle Parker's Kensington Community Revival plan after the next Philadelphia Police Academy class graduates on June 17. “I will make no excuses for the fact that we will go down there in a much more forward posture, that we will be making arrests,” said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel at a press conference Monday.
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May 8, 2024 | 
kensingtonvoice.com | Emily Rizzo |Sammy Caiola |Khysir Carter
At around 7 a.m. on Wednesday, just an hour before the city’s scheduled encampment resolution on a two-block stretch of Kensington Avenue, over a dozen Philadelphia Police officers pushed a legal observer with their bicycles around the corner. In a video shared with Kensington Voice, legal observer Aine Fox’s hands are raised as police push their bikes into her back. In the same video, three officers grab and shove a man across the street.
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May 8, 2024 | 
kensingtonvoice.com | Sammy Caiola |Emily Rizzo |Khysir Carter |Julie Platt
Philadelphia Police Department officers dispersed people from Kensington Avenue early this morning as part of a planned encampment resolution process. No city social services were present during that time, despite promises from city leaders that the initiative would be “service-led.” City officials said they don't know where people went and are "still trying to figure it out."The encampment clearing was supposed to begin at 8 a.m., according to officials.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
kensingtonvoice.com | Sammy Caiola |Khysir Carter |Emily Rizzo |Julie Platt
The national shortage of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, or SANE nurses, can make the process of receiving a rape kit exam long, stressful, and sometimes intolerable for survivors, advocates say. In hopes of addressing that problem, Pennsylvania Senator Elder Vogel introduced a sexual assault exam access bill last fall. It received Governor Josh Shapiro’s signature in December. The law would create grants that would assist hospitals in hiring SANE nurses.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
kensingtonvoice.com | Jill Bauer-Reese |Sammy Caiola |Khysir Carter
Late Monday afternoon, several passersby tapped the glass at 2774 Kensington Avenue to share a smile and wave hello. On the other side of the storefront’s doors, Roz Pichardo, a Kensington resident known by many in the neighborhood as “Mama Sunshine,” was getting organized, running down her list of to-do’s. “My electric is on, my heat is on, my Verizon internet – because that’s the key – is coming tomorrow,” she said, as a paint sprayer hummed in the background.
