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.

Along with his wife Mercy Gatuka, Sam Gatuka is the owner of OK Produce in the Reading Terminal Market

Why aren’t there any Black-owned supermarkets in Philly? These grocers are helping blaze a trail

Proprietors say their shops do more than provide food — they become community hubs.

A photo of Olney Transportation Center Wednesday morning showed few commuters in the falling snow

Neighbors avoid Olney transit hub after mass shooting: ‘I wouldn’t catch it there’

“We’re just trying to make it out of our own neighborhood,” said one North Philly resident.

Philly food and drink scene

Philly’s only lesbian bar is shutting down, adding to a somber nationwide trend

Bars catering to queer women, like the Gayborhood’s Toasted Walnut, are disappearing across the U.S.

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Volunteers with City Wide Mutual Aid at a delivery of groceries and food in Kensington in late January

Broke in Philly

Mutual aid is booming in Philly. Here’s how you can help.

Team up, talk to your neighbors, practice self care and don't judge, say folks who've joined the local movement.

Get a cookie-decorating kit from Lil Pop Shop

12 awesome (and safe) Valentine’s Day dates that support Philly entrepreneurs

Options include cookie decorating, serenades, card making and...romantic Zoom crashing.

The Streets Department converts sanitation trucks into snow plows when needed

Towed during a ‘snow emergency,’ Philly resident’s car goes missing for a week

Memorize these routes or make sure you're signed up for OEM alerts if you want to keep your vehicle away from the PPA during the next storm.

After receiving the vaccination, patients wait under observation at the community vaccine clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Philly’s coronavirus response

Philadelphia to release details about vaccine distribution, reversing initial policy

On the state level, this kind of information is already published regularly.

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Getting around on SEPTA is a ‘nightmare,’ so she’s crowdfunding a wheelchair van

Heather Kerstetter is tired of showing up late. The transit authority says upgrades to CCT are coming.

Andrew Jackson Public School at 1213 S. 12th St.

South Philly’s Andrew Jackson School is being renamed after years of advocacy

Community members will have a chance to weigh in on the new name.

Restoration pro Tom Rudnitsky with the Frank-Brauer family piano, crafted a hundred years ago in Germany

Rare piano that survived Holocaust awaits restoration in South Philly, and a fourth-generation home

Unlike many of its kind, the Ibach was successfully extracted from Nazi Germany in 1936.

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