CitizenCast

Ali Velshi and Richard Vague sat down to discuss Vague's new book,  A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises . EDIT: The audio from the Q&A was salvaged, so this episode has been updated to include it.

Despite the rhetoric of Mayor Kenney, Helen Gym, and Bernie Sanders, the hospital's fiscal woes are not new. Larry Platt wants to know: what did they know and when did they know it?

Mark Houldin, a former public defender, argues that it's not criminal justice reformers. One thing that would help? Solving crimes

Jason Wilson describes how a Fishtown restaurant is on a culinary journey into Pennsylvania's past. Waffles and catfish, anyone?

Larry Platt writes that the Democratic candidates ought to get beyond their bubble of consultants and learn from the soccer star and her "love more, hate less" message

Charles Ellison and Abbe Stern, hospitality manager at the Rittenhouse Hotel, discuss how she started a food rescue operation to bring restaurant excess to food banks and other organizations that could use it.

An upstate New York college helps reduce its community's carbon footprint by giving students a way to recycle used clothes and textiles. Nick Fiorellini thinks it could be huge in Philly

In the next in our series on food and culture, Jason Wilson looks at a Rittenhouse Square nonprofit helping restaurants do the right thing: Donating their food waste

Larry Platt thinks the flare-up between Joe Biden—Philly's third senator—and Kamala Harris is a window into why people hate politics

Charles Ellison and David Bradley, Founding Director of LiveConnections, sit down to discuss the music program at Hill-Freedman World Academy. Its students recorded an album inspired by the Sound of Philadelphia (including a cover of "Wake Up Everybody").

Helen Gym, Allan Domb, the Chamber and other stakeholders are all talking about "inclusive growth." What might that look like here?

The PES refinery fire, WURD's Charles Ellison argues, proves our embrace of gas plants doesn't square with Mayor Kenney's green rhetoric

While Mayor Kenney hides and Police Commissioner Richard Ross and DA Krasner point fingers, the chalk outlines accumulate

WURD host Charles D. Ellison and the Philadelphia Citizen's Executive Editor Roxanne Patel Shepelavy discuss Canada's plan to reduce poverty.

WURD host Charles D. Ellison and the Philadelphia Citizen's Executive Director Larry Platt discuss his article following the Plain View Project's report about Philadelphia police officers' use of Facebook to bash immigrants, make racist comments, promote police brutality, and align themselves with militia groups.

A new study shows that congestion costs us millions of dollars, pollutes our air, and is a hassle. Can we be more like Paris?

The first-time Council candidate is a true outsider who turned her own life around and now wants to do the same for her native Northeast

Our series on the nexus of food and culture explores the flavors of the South Philly area around Mifflin Square Park, one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city

In Canada, communities lifted more than 200,000 families out of poverty in seven years. Why don't we do what they did?

B Lab's co-founder notes that knowing a system is broken doesn't automatically catalyze a system change. Who has a viable alternative? Farmers.

Three companies in Philly offer cheap, fresh produce they say also helps our planet. But, as the next in our series on food and culture uncovers, it's more complicated than that

Barbara Allen founded Fresh Artists to help keep art in schools by turning student works into valuable collectibles. Now she's helping them plan for the future

It's the last day of public school in Philly. Let's give teachers a hand as they embark on their much-deserved summer break

The Citizen's Executive Editor Roxanne Patel Shepelavy reports on how Philly won $1 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies for a Juvenile Justice Hub proposed by city cops. Could it become a national model of reform?

WURD host Charles D. Ellison and the Philadelphia Citizen's Executive Editor Roxanne Patel Shepelavy talk about the recent City Council primary election—and what it says about Philadelphia's electoral culture and voter turnout.