Victoria Brownworth

In Philadelphia, the new year started much like the old one ended. Between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning there were more than a dozen reported shootings and six murders. For residents of the 14th and 39th Districts, this was nothing new. Both districts are among the city’s top ten for violent crimes. Last week, as [...]

CAN MY NEIGHBORHOOD BE SAVED? by Victoria A. Brownworth The November election can’t come soon enough for me. It will end what has been one of the worst, most damaging plagues on my neighborhood of lower Germantown–the reign of Donna Reed Miller in City Council. We’ve withstood a lot down here in the no man’s [...]