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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
inquirer.com | Aubrey Whelan |Lizzie Mulvey
The Philadelphia region is weathering a particularly serious flu season as actions from President Donald Trump’s new administration raise questions about federal health agencies’ approach toward annual efforts to protect people with vaccines. The first week of February saw more flu cases in Pennsylvania than any other week over the past five years with almost 29,000 infections, data from the state Department of Health show.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
inquirer.com | Lizzie Mulvey |Rodrigo Torrejon
When the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl on Feb. 9, thousands erupted on Broad Street in raucous celebration. But while the party was marked by fireworks and pole climbing, data show the rest of the city was fairly quiet. Crime on the day of the Super Bowl was the lowest of any 24-hour periodin 2025 so far as of Feb. 15, with 249 incidents between 5 a.m. Sunday and 5 a.m. Monday. Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said the celebration was not the only reason crime was down, but it didn’t hurt.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
inquirer.com | Aubrey Whelan |Sarah Gantz |Lizzie Mulvey
At Jacqueline Barker’s lab at Drexel University, combined federal grants totaling $1.25 million funds her work studying addiction, HIV, and how infectious diseases impact the brain. About $292,000 of the National Institutes of Health grants cover so-called “indirect costs” — in her lab, paying for everything from security guards to the administrative staff.
