Citizencast

A business owner and civic leader argues that pulling off the 2020 election should make us rethink calls to eliminate the city commissioners.

A volunteer team of women scientists launched Dear Pandemic last year to spread real and clear information about Covid-19.

WURD host Charles Ellison speaks with Dr. George Dalembert, practicing pediatrician, about the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia initiative to tackle poverty by helping families recoup tax money owed to them

The race for district attorney is off to an all too-familiar start. Here’s hoping it will include a debate over what smart reform actually looks like.

Now is the time to capitalize on the greatest civic engagement in a generation. Former city official John Kromer lays out a plan to do that.

Is the BalletX Beyond subscription service a new lifeline to the beleaguered arts community in Philly, and elsewhere?

What can you say when there is nothing to say? A poem about listening and healing by writer, director and social activist Marc Erlbaum may grant insight.

Feeling alienated from your government at all levels? Larry Platt says maybe we should change our relationship to it.

WURD host Charles Ellison talks with Jacinda Arellano, Program Coordinator at the Philadelphia Lullaby Project, about the six-week program that pairs babies and their caregivers with local professional musicians to create intimate lullabies

Our Drexel class tried to rewrite Philly’s constitution. Here are some of the best ways to change the relationship between the governed and the government.

A day after thugs waving confederate flags breached the Capitol, Sen. Gene Yaw provides a glimpse of courage and decency

Theater director David Bradley on how Trump’s post-election enablers have thrust us into a real-life version of Arthur Miller's seminal work.

Getting skeptical Philadelphians to receive their Covid-19 vaccine will take trust-building—and ample creativity. These locals are on it.

Kenneth Bourne of Boys' Latin chats with WURD host Charles Ellison about how we approach the problem of low attendance in Philly schools.

After the worst year ever, Larry Platt offers three new year's resolutions for Mayor Jim Kenney. Hope springs eternal, right?

Philly high school teacher Maureen Boland pens an ode to something we miss most this year: faces and smelling and community in general

Local civic leader Richard Phillips says the coronavirus pandemic can be an opportunity to reinvent Philadelphia.

A compendium of the things we cared about in a super crappy year

Philly Superintendent William Hite has taken some hits lately. Does he have what it takes to manage—and tame—a $3.5 billion bureaucracy? The evidence is...conflicting.

TerraVida Holistic Centers and the Urban League team up to secure rights--and jobs--for people with previous cannabis-related convictions.