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PHILADELPHIA – October 27, 2014 – The Committee of Seventy called Philadelphia City Council’s unilateral decision today to kill a proposed $1.86 billion sale of the Philadelphia Gas Works without a public hearing an affront to the taxpayers of Philadelphia.

by Emily Arnold McCully

Compromise Bill Adds Significant Updates to 1937 Election Code

The project aims to amplify the issues that matter to voters in neighborhoods across Philadelphia during the 2023 municipal election.

by Andi Diehn

The nonprofit’s largest ever single grant will also fund voter outreach and support for election workers.

17,000 late processed applications found in Philadelphia alone

PA Civics, a statewide network formed in 2019 to strengthen and expand civic education in Pennsylvania, officially welcomed the News Literacy Project and Carpenters’ Hall as the 24th and 25th members of the coalition during its quarterly meeting on July 10. The News Literacy Project, the nation’s largest provider of news literacy education, and Carpenters’ Hall, the site of the First Continental Congress in 1774, join a growing list of partners that includes the Association of Former Members of Congress, the National Constitution Center, the Heinz History Center, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce and The Committee of Seventy.

Demolition moratorium proposed in South Philadelphia

by David Thornburgh, President and CEO, Committee of Seventy | Philadelphia City Council, Committee on Legislative Oversight