Celebrating Independence Day After Roe Was Overturned Feels Hollow



I’ve never been much of a July 4th stan. As I’ve become older and more informed, this holiday has become increasingly irrelevant for someone like […]



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Flyers prospect Ivan Fedotov detained in Russia and forced to enlist in army, reports say



Flyers prospect Ivan Fedotov was detained in Russia on Friday, suspected evading enlistment the Russian army. The 25-year-old goalie signed a one-year NHL contract with Philly in May, and he had planned to leave his current team, HC CSKA Moscow, where he was a start goalie on the team that won the KHL championship, the Gargarin Cup, last season. Fedotov reportedly has been forced to enlist in the army.



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Business count in Center City hits highest level since pre-pandemic, still waiting on office workers to return



There are more businesses open and less vacancies in Center City than there have been since the pandemic rocked Philadelphia’s downtown in spring 2020.



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Realty Income CEO Says Clients Able to Pass Inflation Pressures onto Customers


Sumit Roy says distributing 25% of earnings as a dividend each month sets REIT apart.



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I Realized I Knew More About Stone Fruits Than Abortion Laws in My State



On Saturday afternoon, I was pitting cherries in the Catskills. These cherries weren’t being pitted for sport or the love of the game. They were […]



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Judge permanently blocks PennDOT's major bridge tolling plan



PennDOT’s $2.2 billion plan to create new tolls on nine interstate bridges to fund their repair and long-term maintenance was permanently blocked by a Commonwealth Court panel on Thursday. The controversial plan supported by Gov. Tom Wolf faced strong opposition from communities and lawmakers who argued that it lacked sufficient oversight and authority to choose bridges without involving local governments and constituents. The Girard Point Bridge in South Philadelphia, which runs over I-95, was among the nine candidate bridges in the initiative.



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Spirit Airlines reschedules shareholder vote again to continue talks with JetBlue, Frontier



Spirit has once again delayed a crucial shareholder decision on its potential merger with Frontier Airlines as JetBlue repeatedly upped its bid.



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Essex Property Trust CEO Says West Coast Recovery in “Full Swing”


Michael Schall says new lease rates up about 20% year-over-year.



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Here’s Exactly How Access to Abortion in Pennsylvania Could Disappear Very Very Easily



As it stands right now, a person in Pennsylvania can, at least legally speaking, get an abortion with relatively few restrictions. Among them, there’s the […]



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Some Christians believe abortion is murder, but history and the Bible disagree



To many Christians, abortion is a clear moral case. They believe abortion is like killing a person, with some equating it to murder. But the Bible is largely silent on the ethics of abortion. And after the Roe v. Wade ruling in the 1970s, the Southern Baptist Convention affirmed the need for the procedure in many cases. But the Religious Right later took an anti-abortionist stance and Republicans have since politicized the issue.



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