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Philadelphia AmeriCorps volunteers pose for a group photo at their 2023 launch celebration at the Friends Center. The city hosted over 1,300 AmeriCorps volunteers for the 2023-2024, the most of any county or city in Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Politics

DOGE’s sweeping AmeriCorps cuts leave Philly volunteer programs unsure if they will get promised funding

Philadelphia receives $17.9 million in federal AmeriCorps funding. Local nonprofit leaders worry DOGE’s recent cuts could slow down — or stop — their volunteer-based programs.

Beatrice Forman

The author chats with Mike Enborelis, the proprietor of Botánica San Miguel at 3258 Kensington Ave., in 2023. A neighborhood trust along the commercial corridor includes properties valued at $7 million.

Opinion

The neighborhood trust model works. The Kensington Corridor Trust is proof.

Adriana Abizadeh, For The Inquirer

Philadelphia City Councilmember Brian O’Neill wants to increase the homestead exemption to $110,000.

Philadelphia Politics

Homeowners would get property tax break under new bill | City Council roundup

Sean Collins Walsh, Anna Orso, and Fallon Roth

Joseph Kunz undergoes an examination at Cooper University Hospital in Camden. He had been using tranq at the time; eight months later, his life has taken another turn.

Health

Amputations are soaring as a tranq crisis takes hold in the Philly region

Aubrey Whelan, Max Marin, and Dylan Purcell

Larry Williams, of Kensington, was sentenced to 22 1/2 to 45 years in state prison during a hearing Thursday at the Montgomery County Courthouse.

Crime & Justice

A Montco judge sentenced the head of a Philly-based gun ring to decades in state prison

Vinny Vella

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