CitizenCast

People are being shot while the Mayor Jim Kenney and the D.A. Larry Krasner snipe at each other. Where, WURD's midday host wonders, are the leaders we need?

Local banks are stepping up in the fight to keep Covid-19 economic calamity at bay

$2.2 trillion in federal dollars will help. But it's local institutions, Drexel's Metro Finance Director notes, that will make the difference on the ground

The founder of a community-building storytelling nonprofit explains why now is the time to fight the growing scourge of loneliness in America.

Elected official press conferences suddenly make for great TV. Are any of our guys at all Churchillian?

WURD's midday host Charles D. Ellison warns that coronavirus-inspired primary delays could lead to voter suppression and a win for Donald Trump in November, but suggests that mail-in voting could be a way to prohibit that. 

As coronavirus upends our lives, community organizers aren't waiting for the government to help us—supporting each other is the only way through

How did Joe Biden become the antidote to Trumpism and coronavirus anxiety?

North Philly's Serenity Soular is training workers and installing solar panels in communities hardest hit by climate change

Will Center City's Biomeme, and other local medical research facilities, be part of the national solution to the coronavirus?

Will Center City's Biomeme, and other local medical research facilities, be part of the national solution to the coronavirus?

The highest risk to the city might be the scourge that lives with us constantly: poverty

Slam poetry changed the Youth Poet Laureate's young life. Now she wants to give other Philly teens a chance to be heard.

WURD's midday host praises the boldness of City Council's poverty proposal, with caveats

In another black mark on public integrity, former Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, now an employee of the register of wills, applied for DROP. Will Tracey Gordon step in?

Democratic Lt. Governor John Fetterman and his erstwhile Republican opponent Jeff Bartos will talk about their friendship next week. Are they modeling a way forward for Democracy?

Help us name the city worker who does the best to help Philadelphians. Prove what we know is true: Integrity  is something we care about.

On the eve of budget season, a new report by Controller Rebecca Rhynhart looks at Mayor Jim Kenney's historic spending spree. Do you trust him with your money?

Thirty-eight states—but not Pennsylvania—operate programs that recycle surplus prescription drugs, eliminating waste and providing them to residents who couldn't otherwise afford them

D.C.-based Black Girl Ventures is planting roots in Philly to empower black and brown female-identifying entrepreneurs with the resources they need most

Legendary educator and activist Geoffrey Canada on how to move the needle on poverty and equity, and why he's with Bloomberg

Cincinnati has an ecosystem for nurturing, growing and capitalizing minority-owned businesses. Drexel's Metro Finance Lab director on why it's time to pay attention to that.

The local entrepreneur has found a niche that's poised to change lives and—finally—turn a profit

Villanova basketball coach Jay Wright's Zen coaching may be the only antidote to the Sixers' dysfunction

It's too bad, WURD's midday host contends, that the city can't see that