PSA: How to avoid purse snatchers in Philly this summer

Philly Police and urban researchers agree: warm weather season is petty theft season.

La Colombe founder Todd Carmichael takes his anti-tax-cuts pitch national

Per WSJ metric, Philly’s not in contention for Amazon HQ2

Philly has spent $245,000 to woo Amazon

5 details from Philly’s pitch to Amazon

Including a bunch of gifts from Johnny Doc.

What Philly would need to give up to win Amazon

Probably more than the $40 million in incentives offered to Comcast.

Photos: Philly protesters call for more aid to Puerto Rico

A Center City rally called on the U.S. government to send more hurricane relief to the island.

Philly is sending another delegation to Seattle to “get into the Jeff Bezos mind-set and ethos”

Neighborhoods

Why affordable housing is hard to find — and develop — in Philadelphia

It’s about shrinking federal dollars and an old-fashioned formula that isn’t going away

Black and Latino homeowners in Philly are suing Wells Fargo for ‘a widespread pattern or practice of discrimination’

Philly’s soda tax

In food & bev industry, wage taxes up over last year, suggesting soda tax has had little effect on jobs

Hey Philly! We just beat NYC in year-over-year job growth

Report: University City’s tech scene can explode with growth and help nearby neighborhoods

Researchers suggest the Innovation District could be the key to Boston-like success.

White Philadelphians represent 36 percent of the city’s population and *79 percent* of business owners

How have PA’s pension investments been going? Not too great

Philly mayor draws incorrect immigrant biz stat from flawed fact-sheet

The city has corrected the error on the fact-sheet and on Twitter.

Free rent for suburban cos. vs Philly’s Depression-era ‘anti-business’ taxes

The numbers tell a story: Seven Fortune 1000 companies in the city limits; 23 outside them.

“Significant greenbacks”: Report estimates that public gardens in the area generate $256 million each year

It’s cost almost $3M to handle protests in Philly since Trump inauguration

The right to protest ain't cheap.

Kenney signed the salary history bill. But could the bill actually make the pay gap worse?