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"I believe we need to take what worked during the emergency rent relief program and apply it to a new, permanent program that provides stable assistance for the city’s renters," writes Vincent Reina. trib.al/otKnFkg

Thank you The College of Physicians of Philadelphia for having me join you in this discussion!

🚨To mark 2 yrs of the pandemic, I wrote about the sheer scale of death, and how/why so much of the US has normalized to it. The official toll nears 1 million. The NYT called 100k deaths an “incalculable loss”. What is 10 times incalculable? 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Read about College Trustee, Fellow, & Section on Public Health & Preventative Medicine Chair, Dr. Priya Mammen's chance meeting with Paul Farmer that affected her life in The Philadelphia Inquirer! Check it out here: inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Lots of cities are removing their downtown highways. Philly’s I-95 is being built back bigger, even as the adjacent neighborhoods bounce back. My column: bit.ly/3sJ0nmE

Rhea Powell and I wrote this perspective a couple of years ago. Sad that it is still relevant Mark Shapiro, MD Marisha Burden, MD, MBA CU Hospital Medicine

The daughter of one of the reporters at the Uvalde paper was killed in the massacre. She asked her editor if she could writer her daughter's obituary. “She said, ‘Can I have two pictures?’ And I said, ‘You can have a full page.’ ” newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

In the 1990s, the Vine Street Expressway sliced Chinatown in half. In the "Still Processing" podcast, Philly native Wesley Morris looks at how it's disrupted life for everyone from schoolkids to seniors. nytimes.com/2022/06/09/pod…

A nice roundup of how PA will use federal stimulus money (including the Whole Home Repair Program from Senator Nikil Saval! 👏🏽)

Really powerful photo and reflection from Ellie Rushing in this week's Pen & Pencil Club newsletter:

Pa's system of funding education is unconstitutional, Commonwealth Court finds in a landmark decision, w/implications for #PHLed and every other district in the state. This truly could re-shape public education in Pa. Maddie Hanna & I will have much more: inquirer.com/news/school-fu…

Thank you Dr. Rogers & Kirton for using your voices to bring light to the lived experiences of Black American Surgeons. We continue in our efforts to create an environment where these interactions aren’t our reality. Selwyn O. Rogers Jr. Orlando C. Kirton nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Great piece by Dr Michael Stillman on the devil’s bargain we make incorporating electronic communication methods into medical practice. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

"The Bus Revolution plan is a step forward from the lazy status quo we’ve been living with for too long," writes Brendan J. Kelly. "Unfortunately, we’re stuck waiting for the Council members who just started to pay attention." trib.al/Ey0uddM

Philly Bound! Let’s take it to the house!! Philadelphia 76ers!! Let’s goooooo!!!!!

We had a great time meeting with Bob Casey’s team on behalf of Doctors for America to discuss the importance of FDA funding to ensure we have transparency in drug trials/research & the data we need to prescribe safe & efficacious therapies to our patients. Rhea Powell Isha Yardi

Our Editorial Board, which operates independently from our newsroom, weighs in on the state of the 2024 election. inquirer.com/opinion/editor…

The details get a little wonky, but here’s the TL,DR: Senate leaders are cynically trying to shave off $1.5 billion from what they owe inadequately funded, low-wealth school districts using an unprincipled and bogus methodology to undercount kids in poverty.

The fact that the owners of the Washington Post and the L.A. Times have contravened their editorial boards’ endorsements for President is horrifying. It appears the owners have been intimidated by a potential authoritarian president. Democracy under threat? You bet.