CitizenCast

Could a new behavioral health model from Girard College and CHOP be the solution our children need in these overwhelming times?

In this episode from our Ideas We Should Steal Festival, Russ Stark, St. Paul's Chief Resilience Officer, lays out a path to combat the climate crisis through car sharing.

In this episode of Generation Change Philly, we spotlight Michelle Freeman, Founder of event management company Witty Gritty. To both locals and those outside our city, she is one of the region's biggest cheerleaders.

Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi soberly assesses the "tsunami of hunger" now breaking over Afghanistan. Their desperation is appalling. America must act.

For progressives, it's the ultimate inconvenient truth: We need better, smarter policing and prosecution to combat gun violence. Eric Adams is saying that in NY. Anyone here care to agree?

Author Piper Kerman joins Reform Alliance CEO Robert Rooks to discuss achieving what is achievable: safety and reform in our prison system

Katherine catches up with Dr. David Rubin, director of PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), who has been blanketing the airwaves arguing that it's time to rethink our Covid risk management strategies

In the Age of Self-Care, a Stanford psychologist suggests a better antidote to what ails us right now is focusing on other people

Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi discusses new intervention requirements for police officers in the wake of George Floyd's murder--including one disturbing case from Florida caught on tape.

Amid a tsunami of crises, Jim Kenney should become a quality-of-life mayor. It's how he'd bring the city back.

In this episode of Ideas We Should Steal: the benefits of trees. They go beyond health, heat and raised property values. Here, a few ways other cities are increasing their tree canopies, and how we can follow suit.

What's the long game to breaking the cycle of generational poverty in Philly? We invited Terri Sorenson of Friends of the Children, THRIVE CEO Omalara Fatiregun and Bill Golderer, President of United Way of Greater Philadelphia to outline the steps we need to be taking. Join us for this important brainstorming.

In the eight years since co-founding the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project, Joanna Visser Adjoian and Lauren Fine have helped dozens of young people stay out of adult prisons—and get the support they need to lead productive lives

Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi breaks down the meaning and history behind seditious conspiracy, and why the recent charges by the Justice Department are so important

Carpetbaggers, 2020 election result deniers, candidates—including a celebrity TV doc—spending personal fortunes, and connections to Communist China and the Turkish army. Welcome to democracy, PA-style.

In this Ideas We Should Steal episode, we look to Vienna, ranked the most livable city in the world for 10 years. This is in part due to rethinking urban design with women and children in mind. Could a similar approach in Philly make our city more livable for all?

WURD host Charles Ellison speaks with Melissa Ostroff, Pennsylvania Field Advocate at Earthworks, about PGA and its gas leak failures.

Online beefs are behind an increasing amount of violence in Philly. A local resident and teacher wonders what police can do to stop it—and what responsibility social media giants should face

During our Ideas We Should Steal Festival, Ali Velshi moderated a conversation about American writer and activist James Baldwin. Professor Eddie Glaude and musician / playwright Stew joined Ali on stage. "It's weird how relevant [Baldwin] is now. He was writing about an America in which there were truths and there were lies. And the lies were prevalent."

Mayor Kenney ended 2021 complaining that he's responsible for things that are out of his control. Council President Darrell Clarke, however, ended the year seeing a power vacuum.

Something as simple as walking every day can help lessen one of the biggest risk factors for severe illness or death from Covid-19: obesity. That's why we need to encourage more of it in Philly.

In this episode of Generation Change Philly, we highlight Raheem "King" Saladeen who has unlocked opportunities around the world with his artwork—including his ubiquitous "JP The Money Bear." But his heart belongs to the city that raised him and the late friend who believed in him.

In this Ideas We Should Steal: Canada. Eight years ago, Edmonton, started a citywide effort to celebrate its intense cold, rather than hide from it. Would doing the same here make winter more bearable?

Democracy is crumbling, murder is on the rise, and Philly corruption reigns supreme. But there are still examples of hope all around us.

This year was another marked by tragedy and hardship—but also hope and resilience. In other words: It was Philly.