Beacon House in Kensington, one of the nation’s lowest-barrier shelters for drug users, offers tough lessons for the city in crisis. Plus, your guide to Philly bike trails.
Start your day with the Philly news you need and the stories you want all in one easy-to-read newsletterbike trails to explore small towns, food destinations, and breathtaking vistasKensington’s Beacon House is a rarity in the United States, and in Philadelphia: It’s a shelter geared toward people in active addiction that doesn’t require its residents to stop using drugs, and doesn’t enforce restrictions like curfews or security screenings that are in place at some other shelters.
Federal authorities on Thursday announced charges against 12 alleged members of a drug trafficking organization they blamed for injecting “a staggering amount” of fentanyl and firearms into PhillyAn activist group backed by GOP donors is sending mobile billboards to the schools and homes of two teachers in the Central Bucks and Philadelphia school districts this week, saying it aimed toPhilly’s “unaesthethic moms” are part of an online trend of unpolished, realistic content about parenting and...
Civics reporter Henry Savage has the full details, well timed with a weekend forecast that demands you spend time outside.Plus: What happened to Philadelphians who supported the British in the American Revolution? This week, we have a new explainer from reporter Michelle Myers thanks to a reader question. Despite what you might reasonably assume about the country’s origins based on more celebratory depictions of history, not every early American was a fan of the revolution.
Indeed, non-patriots — including some Quakers, whose pacifism precluded them from picking a side — were exiled to Virginia . No one was tarred and feathered, but some lost their property. And two lost their lives for allegedly collaborating with the British.. We’ll select a reader at random to shout out here. Cheers to Alaina Ewins, who solved Thursday’s anagram:.
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