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Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration will start interviewing candidates to lead the Office of Immigrant Affairs
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration this week will begin interviewing candidates to be the executive director of the ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker says the city will continue subsidized SEPTA fare programs following criticism of proposed funding reductions
The Zero Fare program provides SEPTA access for low-income residents, and the Key Advantage program pays for fares for city ...
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Mayor Parker reconsidering decision to close low-income SEPTA Zero Fare program
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker is reconsidering her decision to end a program that provides free SEPTA passes to ...
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Programs offering free SEPTA rides to city workers, low-income residents on track for extensions
Mayor Cherelle Parker had planned to cut funding for both transit subsidies, but now says she's working on keeping them.
Mayor Parker wants to defund a program that provides free transit passes for low-income people
Zero Fare participants had taken about 6.6 million trips on SEPTA since the program started about 18 months ago.
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Philadelphia Mayor’s Proposal to Cut Business Taxes is Illogical and Imprudent
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s proposal to cut the city’s business income and receipts tax (BIRT), based off the Philadelphia Tax ...
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Philadelphia leaders address violent weekend that left 13 shot
The violence even included a triple shooting at the Finley Recreation Center on Saturday evening. All three of those teenage ...