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Cast Your Vote

Today’s the day! Philadelphians are taking to the polls to choose party candidates for mayor, City Council, judges and other elected posts. (It’s also the last day — until the next election cycle, anyway — for the robo-texts, campaign flyers and attack ads. Hooray!) Grid has endorsed Helen Gym in the Democratic mayoral primary race,

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Grid Magazine’s Mayoral Voters Guide

It is with great honor and excitement that we present our voters guide for the Philadelphia mayoral election. As you might expect, we focus on the candidates’ sustainability platforms. The winner will likely guide the city for the next eight years, so it’s critical we choose well. Rather than ask broad questions that might elicit

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Anonymous Donors Save Boy Scout Tract from Development

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education announced on December 7 that it has secured $3 million in funding from anonymous donors to preserve the Boy Scout Tract, the 24-acre parcel of land whose potential sale to developers over the summer caused a firestorm of community opposition. The center began exploring a sale after they received

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Amy Laura Cahn – The Advocate

portrait by Mark Likosky  “Anything I list as an accomplishment resulted from collective power and voice. Social justice—whether for land and food sovereignty, education access, housing rights or protection from police abuse—must center on collaboration, shared leadership and community power. And on the crucial fact that Black lives matter—all Black lives.”— AC Amy Laura Cahn

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Patricia Blakely – The Deal Maker

portrait by Mark Likosky “In the best of all worlds, we could buy local at competitive prices, growing jobs and the local economy.”— PB Sometimes we need a little help from our friends. It’s a simple idea that inspired the creation in 1854 of the Merchants Fund, which was there to step in and help

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Nilda Ruiz – The Builder

portrait by Mark Likosky “Bricks and mortar alone do not build healthy and sustainable communities… the shared vision and engagement of residents into the development of the physical and quality of life planning is the key ingredient to stewardship of the community’s future.”  — NR You can’t build a neighborhood or a community without building

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