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The Auction Behind Your PECO Bill
Pennsylvania blames a single PJM auction for the electricity increases hitting every utility in the state. The number that actually reaches a PECO customer travels a longer road than the headlines suggest, and following it explains why Philadelphia pays less than almost anywhere else in Pennsylvania.
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Kicking the can: SEPTA goes unaddressed in 2026 PA budget
Pennsylvania signed a $50.8 billion budget on July 12. While it runs to more than 600 pages, Mass transit didn't make the cut.
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The Delaware Is About to Build Ships Again
Thirty years after the Navy walked away, Philadelphia has the money, the orders, and the political backing to become the center of American shipbuilding. The only thing left is the work.
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Imagining A Different World: What If Philadelphia Had Gotten the UN
UN delegates from the United Kingdom, Poland, the Soviet Union, India, and New Zealand were prepared to vote for a headquarters on Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park
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Is Philly a Worse City Than Phoenix? A Leading Report Says So.
The report puts Philly between Phoenix and Tampa
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Philly-Area Inventory Is Growing. Prices Haven't Cracked. Here's Why.
Buyers have more options than they did a year ago. They still don't have enough leverage to move prices.
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FMC is staying put. A win for Philly.
After months of uncertainty, the 143-year-old chemical company is staying exactly where it started.
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The Five Moments That Made Philadelphia, America's Birthplace
A quarter millennium later, these moments still help define the American Dream.
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The Slow Leak: How an Unaddressed Demographic Crunch Could Drag Down Greater Philadelphia
From Bucks County kindergartens to Temple's budget office: one demographic problem, one region, one closing window to respond
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Philadelphia's Prices Are Rising Faster Than Almost Anywhere Else in the Country
Philadelphia has spent years with a reputation as the affordable alternative to New York, Boston, and Washington.
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There Is No Better Place to Be on July 4th Than Philadelphia
Every city celebrates July 4th. Only one city is where it happened
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Philadelphia Has 20 Museums. None of Them Are About Sports, Until Now.
Philadelphia has shaped American sports for over a century. It has never had a place to prove it. That changes tonight.
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The Federal Pullback Is Reshaping the Mid-Atlantic Job Market
Washington's federal job losses are rippling up the corridor. Philadelphia is holding on, barely
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Philadelphia Built the Missing Middle Once. Then It Made It Illegal.
Why Philadelphia keeps making its housing problem worse on purpose.
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Why Point Breeze Avenue Can't Fill Its Storefronts
The neighborhood is booming. The commercial corridor isn't. The explanation lives in a zoning code.
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Philadelphia - The Cyberpunk City
Gene-edited immune cells, an artificial womb, a skyline lit like a circuit board, and a record-violence peak beaten back by drones and forensics. The genre spent forty years imagining a city like this. Philadelphia became one.
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Philadelphia Lost Its Banks. And It's Still Paying for It.
What happens to a city's economy when it doesn't have a bank?
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