Philadelphia Tribune

3 days ago | phillytrib.com | Lee Hockstader

On a recent drive up New York’s Hudson Valley, I spent half a day at Hyde Park, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s imposing family home and the site of his presidential museum. It’s hard to imagine another place that provides a more immediate counterpoint to the moral decay into which President Donald Trump has plunged the country, or a more poignant contrast to the privations of the Trump White House. Roosevelt, of course, features prominently in any list of the handful of greatest American presidents.

3 days ago | phillytrib.com | Alan Feuer

A federal judge in Maryland blasted the Trump administration Tuesday for flouting her instructions to answer questions about what steps it had taken, and planned to take, in seeking the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month. The sharp rebuke by the judge, Paula Xinis, contained in an eight-page order, suggested she had lost her patience with the Justice Department’s pattern of stonewalling her in the case involving the deported man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

4 days ago | phillytrib.com | Bruce Shipkowski

CHATSWORTH, N.J. — A fast-moving wildfire engulfing part of New Jersey's Pine Barrens was expected grow Thursday, with smoke affecting the air quality in the New York City area before rain arrives this week, authorities said. Higher-than-normal pollution levels were expected Thursday in New York City, Rockland and Westchester counties, and in Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation advised Wednesday.

5 days ago | phillytrib.com | Kenny Cooper |Nicole Leonard

Tears of anger and devastation, desperate pleas for a “hail mary” and a public stand by health care and emergency medical workers Tuesday afternoon were not enough to save Crozer Health hospitals from doom as closure plans proceeded forward. “This is going to devastate our entire community,” said Peggy Malone, union president of the Crozer-Chester Nurses Association. Crozer Health employees and local lawmakers continued to hope for a “hero” to rescue Delaware County’s largest health system.

6 days ago | phillytrib.com | Kenny Cooper |Nicole Leonard

Crozer Health, Delaware County’s largest hospital system, will close its doors within 30 days — creating an emergency health care desert in one of Philadelphia’s most densely populated suburbs. The death rattle of Crozer Health comes after Pennsylvania, Delaware County, Penn Medicine and the Foundation for Delaware County pumped a total of $46 million over recent months to keep it functioning amid bankruptcy proceedings and sale negotiations to transition the system to a new owner.