Michaela Winberg

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Michaela Winberg is a general assignment reporter at Billy Penn, and contributes transporation stories to PlanPhilly. She also sometimes produces radio and web features for NPR.

A graduate of Temple's Klein College of Media and Communication, Winberg helped launch CoveringAddiction.com, a project geared toward finding solutions to drug addiction in Philadelphia. She was editor-in-chief of The Temple News, and spent time working at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Bellingham Herald based out of Washington state. She also helped produce a Philly pop-up podcast called Story Shuffle.

Artist Tish Urquhart put up her Casarez tribute Wednesday morning. Thursday evening, it was gone.

Someone tore down the new tribute to LGBTQ activist Gloria Casarez within 48 hours

The building owner said they expected the artwork to remain up until at least the end of the month.

Tiff Urquhart and her new wheatpaste of late LGBTQ activist Gloria Casarez, installed down the block from the whitewashed Casarez mural

Down the block from the whitewashed mural, a colorful new Gloria Casarez tribute

Queer artist Tiff Urquhart eased her pain by installing a wheatpaste of the LGBTQ icon.

The University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia

How UPenn could revoke Trump’s Wharton degree

The bylaws don’t have a clause for incitement of insurrection, but there’s always the question of cheating on the SAT.

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Election 2020

These are the 90+ elected officials from Pa. who supported challenges to Biden’s win

Several major corporations are stopping donations to lawmakers on this list, which includes eight congressional reps and more than 80 state reps.

The East Passyunk location is the city's third, along with one in Fishtown and another in Kensington

South Philly was jealous, so film buffs opened the city’s third Free Blockbuster

The Delco native who came up with the idea is hoping no corporate buzzkills shut them down.

City’s Hall’s evacuation plan: How Philly government has responded to past breaches

The most dangerous situation in recent history was a 1990 pipe bomb in the basement.

Police with guns drawn watch as insurrectionists try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday

Former Philly Police Commissioner on DC violence: This is a coup attempt

Charles Ramsay joined CNN Wednesday afternoon as chaos unfolded in the nation’s capital.

A cyclist uses the raised bike lane on North American Street

Philly’s first raised bike lane with a concrete buffer is nearly complete

The bikeway runs along the middle of North American Street, connecting Northern Liberties to Fairhill.

The Gloria Casarez mural as it was being erased on Dec. 23

The unexpectedly short history of the Gloria Casarez mural, whitewashed from the Gayborhood

Developers have apologized for painting over the image of the groundbreaking LGBTQ activist.

Reading Terminal Market in April. Some stands were open, but customers were few.

Philly’s coronavirus response

With relief hard to access, GoFundMe was a small biz lifeline in Philadelphia

It was a pinnacle year for crowdfunding. Experts say the trend is unlikely to continue.

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