Daily Signe Cartoon 06/20/18

John Cole on City Council’s reluctance to abolish the Philadelphia sheriff’s office despite a litany of scandals, including revelations that $20 million from deed sales went missing for months.

As a young artist working at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Signe Wilkinson had a front-row seat to the wonders it contained. For the city to lose this institution would be a travesty.

John Cole on how Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity has entered the final month of the race trailing badly in polls — and seemingly desperate to avoid mentioning You Know Who.

John Cole on Sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s court testimony about how she became aware of the problems plaguing her office, an agency where a super-hero may be needed to untangle all of the dysfunction.

John Cole on the potential perils of President Trump’s hands-off approach to A.I. regulation.

John Cole on Pennsylvania voters wondering which political party, exactly, Sen. John Fetterman belongs to.

After Sen. John Fetterman’s appearance at the Republican Midterm Convention this week, Winters weighs in on his increasingly cozy fit with the GOP.

John Cole on President Donald Trump's plan to use the U.S. Postal Service to determine who is eligible to vote by mail.

John Cole on the Pennsylvania GOP’s soft spot for Democratic Sen. John Fetterman.

Winters on Gov. Josh Shapiro calling out Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine misinformation after two children die of measles amid rising cases in Pennsylvania.

John Cole on the governor’s new executive order clamping down on data center growth — and the competing pressures that may have been behind his change of heart.

John Cole on how data centers are rewiring Pennsylvania’s landscape.

John Cole on reports that President Trump hid in a catering cart to secretly board another transport to slip out of Turkey after a credible threat to Air Force One.

John Cole on President Trump turning a New Jersey voter registration glitch into a mountain — and a pretext for passing the SAVE America Act.

John Cole examines who stands to suffer most from the perjury allegations facing Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office.

Sen. John Fetterman has threatened to leave the Democratic Party. John Cole imagines the day they stop talking him out of it.

John Cole on the rising body count of President Trump’s immigration enforcement, which has left four people dead at the hands of ICE agents this year.

John Cole on how sports betting sites use personalized pitches from celebrities like Phillies slugger Bryce Harper to hook their biggest spenders — known as “whales” — and keep them on the line.

John Cole takes note of President Trump’s support of the SAVE America Act — a measure that critics fear could create barriers to voting for eligible citizens.

This year, the National Retail Federation estimates Americans will spend some $4.4 billion on Halloween costumes. In 2018 alone, they discarded about 11.3 million tons of textiles, said the EPA.

About 20 countries are looking to ban minors from social media. But bans have not always worked as planned. Here are some other ideas to make platforms safer for kids.

New England is talented, knows what it’s doing, and played the entire game at full strength. The Union hadn’t faced that trifecta much since Ryan Richter took the helm.

This will be the first federal election in decades without Justice Department oversight. Ryan R. Crosswell is concerned about how Trump’s loyalists may try to interfere.

Jaylen Brown’s busy 30th birthday included a Sixers win, 27 points, and some words for Jayson Tatum.

Without James, who sat out Saturday to manage his sciatica, the Sixers got a triple-double from Joel Embiid and more ballhandling from Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe.