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A small business owner’s take on why it’s time for a single payer system

Imagine a world without co-pays, deductibles, premiums, explanations of benefits, pre-existing conditions, tiers, in-network and out-of-network providers.  I talked to two capitalists the other day. One in favor of Medicare for all. One on the fence. I initially wanted to talk to small businesses in Philadelphia about Medicare For All and their challenges with our

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What policies is Philly’s urbanist PAC 5th Square pushing this year? Grid sat down with one of its co-chairs to find out.

You don’t need to be an urban planner to appreciate the inherent good of public space. This is what Dena Driscoll, co-chair of the all-volunteer grassroots organization and urbanist political action committee 5th Square wants Philadelphians to know as they reimagine the city beyond the pandemic. Formed in 2014, 5th Square supports candidates for local

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Private Security Firm Warned of the Attack on the United States Capitol

Editorial Assistance from Cory Clark On January 4, 2021, one of the world’s largest security companies, G4S, published an intelligence report detailing the potential risks to Washington, DC, leading up to inauguration. In the report titled “January 2021 Washington, DC, Security Outlook,” G4S warns specifically about the security threats to the United States Capitol on

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We’ve already laid the foundation for a Green New Deal in Philadelphia. We just need the will—and the cash—to make it happen.

When Jerome Shabazz started Overbrook Environmental Education Center (OEEC) in 2002, he set about transforming a former EPA brownfield site into a community space where the neighborhood could connect with nature. Today, it’s a verdant oasis on Lancaster Avenue’s commercial corridor. “It’s the intersection of environment, public health and community,” Shabazz says. But OEEC doesn’t

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Bike Talk: Will the Biden administration bring the transportation progress we need?

Eager to put the last four years in America’s rear view, President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team have published their first batch of plans for their time in the White House, some of which include exciting news for bicycling, public transit and walking. Pledging to allot federal funding for alternative transportation modes, the Biden

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Have we learned nothing from 2020?

Well into the eighth month of a mismanaged pandemic that caused Great Depression-level unemployment, lame duck President Trump and members of his party are posturing toward a coup to remain in office. The general tone surrounding the “soft coup” is the same tone America has had towards climate change and the coronavirus, “if we ignore

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