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PETA has asked Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker to put the kibosh on the poisoning of those vile four-legged varmints and take a wholly different approach.

Matt Mahan, the wildly popular mayor of San Jose, California, was recently reelected with a whopping 87 percent of the vote. How do you get to what Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt  jokingly called (echoing The Daily Show host Jon Stewart) "Vladimir Putin numbers?" As Mahan laid out on the latest episode of How To Really Run A City, hosted by former Mayors Michael Nutter of Philadelphia and Kasim Re...

On this Citizen segment of Evening WURDs, Dr. James Peterson invites onto the show Nafees Norris, named a recent Citizen of the Week. Norris was the first Black student accepted into Thomas Jefferson University's Biopharmaceutical Engineering Master's Program. After graduation he had a choice: continue in the biotech industry or start his own venture geared towards exposing young people — particul...

On this episode of Ideas We Should Steal, ten states have legalized this energy- and money-saving home technology. Should PA become the first swing state to do so? 

A read of our City's 2,000-page constitution reveals an accidental anthropology of the weird, outdated and pointless

A veteran movie critic previews the coming 10-day, three-venue movie extravaganza as "one of the richest festivals in recent memory"

According to an explosive report from consumer protection advocates, Walmart filed several patents that would aid personalized surge pricing (electronic shelf labels) by tracking customers in stores and online through their cell phones. Ali Velshi breaks it down.

The fall of Larry Krasner has produced a hero for our times. Meantime, recent headlines concerning another judge? Not so heroic.

What do you do if you want to get workers to stop cutting down a tree? If you're one citizen in West Philly, you block their way with your body.

On this Citizen segment of Evening WURDs with Dr. James Peterson, renowned CHOP immunologist called in to discuss vaccines, chicken soup and RFK Jr.

Hannibal Collins lived with sickle cell anemia for 37 years. It was only after his death that his mother discovered how little the world knows about the disease.

Tom and Judy Kleinman produced Operation Mincemeat, Sunset Blvd. and Evita on Broadway. Now this eminently entrepreneurial Philadelphia couple plans to foster the next generation and keep their love for theater alive in their hometown.

Upper Roxborough is the last rural corner of Philadelphia, a place where forests and fields reign. Squeezed by development, how much longer can it last?

CHOP's esteemed immunologist, Paul Offit, steps into the debate over vaccines and religious freedom, and concludes that being anti-vax is not pro-religion

Ali Velshi argues that Trump is incapable of acknowledging the reality of the polls ahead of the midterms, nor is he making any attempt to connect to the pains of the average voter. What might he do to circumvent the will of the people?

Thousands of West Philly residents fear displacement from affordable homes owned by one landlord. Mayor Parker's $2 billion housing plan might help to prevent that fate.

From family trauma to a teenage murder conviction to a returning citizen rising to become a force for good and healing, on this episode of Big Rube's Philly, Reuben "Big Rube" Harley has an unvarnished conversation with barber and poet Will Little about how he overcame the streets of South Philly

The principals of two high schools set to merge aren't just waiting to see what happens next to displaced students and staff, they're reaching out early to ease the transition

Philly saw an outbreak of measles in 1991 centered around certain religious communities. What have we learned since? Not much. In fact, things have gotten worse.

In the wake of a high-stakes state visit by the Chinese president, Ali Veshi breaks down the many gifts to China that are Donald Trump's foreign bungles.

Meet the next generation of man's best friend (some with lasers some with thermal sensors, some with machine guns). Brought to you by Philly's brightest tech minds.

On a special live episode of How To Really Run A City, former Mayor Michael Nutter takes us inside his new Impact Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. His co-host, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, as well as former Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum are this year's inaugural scholars. "The idea is to match young people who want to go into public service with those who have served but are not yet...

Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services seems to have stopped pushing vitamin A to treat measles. Paul Offit, CHOP's renowned immunologist, wonders if this reversal will come in time to save PA from an even more massive outbreak?

On this episode of Ideas We Should Steal, Philadelphians flush 310 tons of what could be money-making compost every year. Will fears of forever chemical contamination prevent us from cashing in?

The rising cost of diesel fuel is wiping out the already thin margins that farmers across the country have been operating under. Some farmers are fearing they won't be able to pay basic bills. Ali Velshi explains how this puts America's food security at serious risk.