Philadelphia (Pa)
Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to US Drug Zones
PHILADELPHIA — Over a matter of weeks, Tracey McCann watched in horror as the bruises she was accustomed to getting from injecting fentanyl began hardening into an armor of crusty, blackened tissue. Something must have gotten into the supply. Switching corner dealers didn’t help. People were saying that everyone’s dope was being cut with something […]
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Tiona Nekkia McClodden Is Not Running Away
PHILADELPHIA — The artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden hit the gun range on a sweltering Monday in July. The air was sticky inside the facility, but her routine would not be denied. She shoots every week and avoids weekends, when the range gets crowded and loud with men firing off assault-type rifles, inviting sensory overload. It […]
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Names a New Director
Two years after publicly confronting sexual harassment allegations, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has selected its new leader: Sasha Suda, the current director and chief executive of the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario. Praising her educational and work experience, Leslie Anne Miller, the museum’s chairwoman, said in an interview on Tuesday that Suda […]
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Mass Shootings in Philadelphia and Chattanooga Leave At Least 6 Dead
A brawl between at least two men turned a packed Philadelphia street into a scene of terror Saturday night after they pulled out guns and began firing wildly at each other. By the time the gunfire ended, three people were dead and 12 more were hurt. Just a few hours later, in Chattanooga, Tenn., a […]
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Gopuff Buys Time for Its 30-Minutes-or-Less Delivery Promise
“Once you can execute, and obviously that’s hard, it wins in the long term,” he said. Gopuff added that it was putting a public offering on the back burner because the stock market had been volatile and it had enough cash on hand. The layoffs were part of a global restructuring, it said. Mr. Gola […]
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City of Philadelphia Will Reinstate an Indoor Mask Mandate
With new coronavirus cases low but rising sharply in recent days, the city of Philadelphia announced on Monday that it will reinstate an indoor mask mandate a little more than a month after lifting it, becoming the first major U.S. city to do so. “This is our chance to get ahead of the pandemic,” said […]
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Bracing for Losses, Democrats Look to Biden for a Reset
PHILADELPHIA — House Democrats planned a retreat here this week hoping for a reset after a difficult period during which President Biden has been buffeted by rising gas prices, soaring inflation and sagging approval ratings. Instead, they arrived in buses in the middle of the night after the president’s latest coronavirus aid package had collapsed […]
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Celebrating Black History Month? These 5 Cities Are Going All Out
When the historian and journalist Carter G. Woodson proposed the first Negro History Week in 1926, he hardly imagined what would eventually become a monthlong celebration of Black history and culture across the nation. Today, every single state commemorates Black History Month in some fashion, acknowledging the trailblazers of the past, celebrating those making waves […]
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Philadelphia Will Require Covid Vaccine Proof for Indoor Dining Starting Jan. 3.
Customers and workers at bars and restaurants in Philadelphia, where new cases of coronavirus infections are rising rapidly, will have to be fully vaccinated starting next month, city officials announced on Monday. “I don’t want to close restaurants or other types of businesses that serve food,” Cheryl Bettigole, Philadelphia’s health commissioner, said in a video […]
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