The Philadelphia Inquirer

1 day ago | inquirer.com | Isabella DiAmore |Isabella Diamore

Chris Clark is heading back to his alma mater to coach St. Joseph’s Prep’s boys’ basketball team while serving as assistant athletic director, the school announced Thursday. Clark spent nearly a decade as an assistant coach at Temple, where he also played under legendary coaches John Chaney and Fran Dunphy from 2004-08. Now, after 17 years on the college coaching scene, he’s making a change. “It’s really difficult to put into words,” said Clark, who graduated from the Prep in 2004.

1 day ago | inquirer.com | Sean Walsh |Jake Blumgart

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and City Council President Kenyatta Johnson negotiated into the early morning hours Thursday without reaching a deal on the next city budget and the administration’s high-profile housing plan. The impasse has forced Council to employ procedural tricks to stay on track to pass the budget by June 12, lawmakers’ last session before their summer recess and the start of the next fiscal year on July 1.

1 day ago | inquirer.com | Emily Bloch

In what we can pretty confidently call a first, the pope was seen wearing a Villanova baseball cap at the Vatican. It was part of a meeting between Pope Leo XIV and the National Italian American Foundation on Wednesday. The Italian heritage group gifted Pope Leo the hat, and he quickly swapped it out from his traditional zuchetto (the official name for those holy skullcaps).

1 day ago | inquirer.com | Ellie Krieger

One of my signs that spring is officially here is the day my go-to farmer returns to the farmers market. It always feels good to welcome him back after a long winter and pick up fresh, locally grown produce. The joy of it is more about the promise of what’s to come: In the summer, his farmstand overflows so much that I have to restrain myself from overbuying. Mid-spring, however, things are a bit sparse at the farm, with mostly herbs and lettuces available.

1 day ago | inquirer.com | Stephanie Farr

Sometimes when I walk the streets of Old City, I imagine the people of colonial times who walked those roads before me, before Philadelphia was Philly and before this nation secured its liberty and identity. I mostly think about the smells folks had to endure before indoor plumbing, but I also wonder how those men and women traversed the cobblestone streets in their heeled shoes when I look like a wombat in flip-flips doing it in sneakers.