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1 day ago | 
inquirer.com | Aubrey Whelan |Kayla Yup |Stephen Stirling |Lizzie Mulvey
President Donald Trump’s administration says it has cut tens of millions of dollars in research funding from universities and research centers in Philadelphia. The Inquirer has been tracking these cuts for months, analyzing the impact to research in the region from the grant terminations playing out nationally.
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2 weeks ago | 
inquirer.com | Maddie Hanna |Lizzie Mulvey |Chris Williams
For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued teaching fifth graders at Lynnewood Elementary School in Havertown. And in Chester County, Charles Graydus remained a career and technical education teacher at Octorara Junior/Senior High School after his January 2023 arrest for masturbating in front of a salon employee. The district accepted Graydus’ retirement that June.
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2 weeks ago | 
inquirer.com | Sarah Gantz |Lizzie Mulvey
Even before Crozer-Chester Medical Center closed last month, nearby hospitals were already feeling the impact of financial woes at the beleaguered safety net provider, which operated Delaware County’s busiest emergency department and only Level 1 trauma center. Crozer-Chester Medical Center and its sister hospital, Taylor Hospital, closed in May after years of financial turmoil and mismanagement by owner Prospect Medical Holdings.
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1 month ago | 
inquirer.com | Lizzie Mulvey |Sarah Gantz
You can expect to spend three and a half hours inside an emergency room in the Philadelphia region during a typical visit, according to the latest data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That’s 50 minutes longer than the national average for emergency room visits. Emergency department visits got longer at three out of every four hospitals in the Philadelphia region between 2021 to 2024.
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1 month ago | 
inquirer.com | Henry Savage |Lizzie Mulvey
Philadelphians will argue over anything — the best cheesesteak, the real boundaries of their neighborhoods, the legality of saving parking spots with traffic cones. But if there’s one thing this city can unite against, it’s the potholes. The tire-popping, axle-crunching, trench-like potholes that turn daily commutes into obstacle courses. Some locals have had enough. At FDR Park, skateboarders filled in craters themselves.
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1 month ago | 
inquirer.com | Sarah Gantz |Lizzie Mulvey
Eight Philadelphia-area hospitals owned by Jefferson Health and Virtua Health improved their ratings in the latest report card from a leading hospital safety watchdog. Leapfrog releases safety ratings for some 3,000 hospitals nationally twice a year. The nonprofit grades hospitals on 22 safety metrics, such as infection rates and preventable errors, that are reported by the hospitals to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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1 month ago | 
inquirer.com | Joe Yerardi |Chris Williams |Lizzie Mulvey
President Donald Trump signed more than 135 executive orders in his first 100 days in office, the primary force delivering a whirlwind of new policies that have upended the federal government. The impacts of these on Philadelphia and Pennsylvania have varied, with some immediately apparent and others yet to appear. Here are four areas data show early effects on the region.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
inquirer.com | Andrew Seidman |Lizzie Mulvey
In response to the trade war unleashed by the United States, foreign governments have hit back by imposing retaliatory tariffs on products seen as important in states President Donald Trump won in the November election. Kentucky bourbon, Harley-Davidson motorcycles made in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and farm products across the Midwest have all been subjected to new levies.
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Mar 23, 2025 | 
inquirer.com | Lizzie Mulvey |Michelle Myers |Peter Dobrin
As far as farewells to department stores go, the daylong musical tribute to Center City Macy’s truly was in another category, drawing by at least one estimate more than 10,000 people to hear the historic Wanamaker Grand Court Organ for the last time in who knows when. Applause were plentiful, as were tears. Then came what left some attendees unsettled, if not slightly alarmed.
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Mar 16, 2025 | 
inquirer.com | Andrew Seidman |Lizzie Mulvey
Every year, Pennsylvania businesses sell hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of motorcycles, machinery, chocolate, and coffee to companies and consumers in Canada. Canadian businesses, for their part, export $1.2 billion worth of steel and aluminum products annually to the Keystone State, commodities that are used in everything from building and construction to beer cans and consumer electronics.
