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Philadelphia City Council considers curfew on businesses in this open-air drug market

Warning: This story contains graphic images. With addiction and crime so rampant in the Philadelphia area, a new bill would impose a curfew on some stores in Kensington's open-air drug market. City Councilman Quesi Lozada introduced a bill Thursday that would require some businesses and restaurants in certain areas of the Kensington neighborhood, including the […]

Could Philly’s new Dem mayor be the one to clean up this infamous open-air drug market?

In one of her first acts after taking office, Philadelphia's first female mayor declared a state of security emergency to stem the rampant crime and excessive drug addiction plaguing her city's neighborhoods. “I think this is a step in the right direction,” Frank Rodriguez, a recovering heroin addict and former drug dealer in Philadelphia's Kensington […]