Claire Sasko

Philadelphia has cancelled its live Fourth of July fireworks display, instead moving the entirety of its annual Wawa Welcome America event online.

The roughly 200-year-old prison-turned-historical-and-educational-site will also lay off 40 percent of its staff due to coronavirus-related financial cutbacks. Here’s what to expect there this fall.

The protests have given a fresh spotlight — and an increase in donations — to an organization that’s been fighting the injustices wrought by the cash bail system for three years. Its lead organizer talks prison reform, defunding the police, and holding Larry Krasner at his word.

“Preparing for this is sort of like an earthquake, a tornado and a hurricane hitting you at the same time every day,” says a city election official. But one observer says Philly has done an “adequate to good job” with the new process.

In discussing her counter-proposal to Mayor Kenney’s “painful” post-coronavirus budget plan, the city’s fiscal watchdog says that the city must re-envision itself like a business, not “hit people when they’re down” by raising taxes.

Get some fresh air and a dose of the city’s rich history at the same time.

Universities like Temple, Drexel, Thomas Jefferson and La Salle intend to resume in-person learning. Administrators are “trying to look at crystal balls and read tea leaves,” one higher education expert says.

The revised spending plan that the Mayor is proposing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic slashes services, guts the arts, and sets up a potentially contentious showdown with City Council.

Planning for the fall has become a top priority for universities both locally and nationwide, especially as the pandemic takes its financial toll. Here’s what Philadelphia schools are considering and why.

The crisis is bringing issues of equity into sharper focus, testing students’ resilience, creating uncertainty for the fall, and possibly spelling the end of snow days.

You’ve spent most of the last four years obsessed with voting in 2020. Don’t let a virus stop you.

Now more than ever, people are using the Philly company — founded to provide party supplies for college students — to deliver must-haves like toilet paper, milk and cleaning supplies.

They’re among the heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. And they’ve got some things to get off their chest.

Chris Crisman’s Women’s Work includes interviews with Heather Thomason of Primal Supply and Penn’s Angela Duckworth, among others.

A 75-seat theater set to open this spring on Baltimore Avenue is giving Philly cinephiles hope — despite the Ritz at the Bourse closure.

By not acknowledging that concerning levels of a toxic chemical were released into the air, the administration failed residents. That’s not acceptable.

How a cluster of talented authors and one low-key but incredibly influential writing group called the Claw are making Philly a lit hotbed.

Rumors had swirled that the trolleys, which date back to the 1940s, would disappear for good after SEPTA replaces them with buses on Sunday.

Philly already has the biggest Wawa in the world. Now the smallest in Philly is opening — complete with the city’s first Wawa pickup window.

Scared to bike and jog on roads? A newly announced $18 million Circuit Trails funding boost could effectively provide a multiuse trail network extending all the way from Philly to Exton.