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An 8-year-old waits under the John Wanamaker Eagle for the start of Macy's "Christmas Pageant of Lights" in 2019.

Meet me at the eagle, I hope

Philadelphia is always changing, but I can't help but feel a sense of loss at the Center City Macy's closing.

Gina Vitale, For The Inquirer

Poll workers prepare to open their polling place inside Moore College of Art & Design in Center City Philadelphia on election day, Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

Running to run elections

Seth Bluestein, For The Inquirer

Workers construct the inaugural platform at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 8, 2016. Our country will be stronger, writes Korry Franke, if we are truly willing to fly together.

America can soar, but only if we do it together

Korry Franke, For The Inquirer

New Kensington Community Development Corp. executive director Bill McKinney poses on this from steps Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, the “now” view (right) of Kensington to compare with a “then” photo (left) from the 1982 film "Fighting Back." Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, and Yaphet Kotto filmed in Kensington with a plotline driven by crime, trauma, and the effects of neighborhood disinvestment that may seem familiar to current Kensington residents.

43 years after the movie ‘Fighting Back,’ a real-life and an imagined sequel

Bill McKinney, For The Inquirer

A photograph of the Olney-Oak Lane neighborhoods in Philadelphia in 2024. According to Nikia Owens and Jonathan Stein, the city's wage tax refund program is undersubscribed because it is tied to the state's Special Tax Forgiveness program, which excludes many of the working poor.

Philadelphia’s working poor should not pay a regressive city wage tax

Nikia Owens and Jonathan Stein, For The Inquirer

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