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CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS Disruptors Alexis A. Thompson and Stephan A. Grupp. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia doctors have devoted their lives to improving the quality and length of life for some of our country’s most vulnerable and overlooked patients: children with sickle cell disease.
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CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS: Disruptors Alexis A. Thompson and Stephan A. Grupp. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia doctors have devoted their lives to improving the quality and length of life for some of our country’s most vulnerable and overlooked patients: children with sickle cell disease.
52 Small Ways to Make Philadelphia a Better City
2024年12月30日 · One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to get people the resources they need to become better, more engaged citizens of their city.. We hope to do that in our Good Citizenship Toolkit, which includes a host of ways to get involved in Philadelphia — whether you want to contact your City Councilmember about the challenges facing your community, get those experiencing ...
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Your City Defined: Home Rule Charter - The Philadelphia Citizen
2023年2月3日 · Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter: Sounds like something vaguely 17th-century-ish that William and Hannah Callowhill Penn dreamed up for their “Greene Countrie Towne,” or their “green country town,” et al.In fact, the Home Rule Charter is our City’s constitution, our government’s ground rules, first created in 1951 to help …
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Things Philadelphia Cared About in 2024. And Our Hopes for 2025.
2024年12月25日 · Dear readers, let’s take a moment to congratulate ourselves on getting to this point, the end of 2024, a year that in at least one way seemed interminable: The presidential election, which brought international attention to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania and was exhausting.. There were many exciting moments, as well — a presidential debate at the Constitution Center, our so-close-to-glory ...
How To Reform The City Charter - The Philadelphia Citizen
To get us started, along with Drexel University’s Politics Department head Richardson Dilworth—grandson of the former mayor—we partnered on a class made up of 20 students and Citizen readers for a deep dive into what makes an urban citizen, and how our city’s governing document should speak for and to them.
A Thriving Kensington is Possible - The Philadelphia Citizen
2024年9月4日 · One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to get people the resources they need to become better, more engaged citizens of their city.. We hope to do that in our Good Citizenship Toolkit, which includes a host of ways to get involved in Philadelphia — whether you want to contact your City Councilmember about better investment in our most vulnerable communities, get those ...