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Take our news quiz on the President’s House, a ‘Wiki-famous’ local, and a very pricey cocktail.

By

Emily Bloch

Published July 17, 2026

Think you know your news? There’s only one way to find out. Welcome back to our weekly News Quiz — a quick way to see if your reading habits are sinking in and to put your local news knowledge to the test.

Question 1 of 10

When did the Trump administration carry out the replacement of the President’s House exhibit at Independence Mall?

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President Donald Trump’s administration has installed its own version of history at the President’s House, swapping panels on the brutality of slavery at the site for displays that experts say sanitize George Washington’s role as an enslaver. The change happened overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, hours after the city hosted MLB All-Star Game events near the site, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shut down the television screens without public scrutiny.

Question 2 of 10

How are SEPTA and Amtrak responding to the current heat wave?

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The extreme heat warning led transit agencies to slow down trains to ensure safe travel amid highs in the upper 90s. Amtrak and SEPTA were slowing trains down by 5 to 10 mph.

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Question 3 of 10

There’s a 1920s house for sale on Canterbury Road in Abington whose prior residents may include the heir to an internationally known local ___ company.

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The $1.2M house is thought to have ties to a famous shoe heir. The previous owners who sold the house in 2013 passed on a framed print from the early days of Laird & Schober Shoes, a Philadelphia company that rose to international prominence in the early 20th century. The company won an award from the Franklin Institute in 1900 for shoe manufacturing, and collaborated with famed Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli.

Question 4 of 10

During his scheduled appearance at a defense industry summit in Central Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump took the opportunity to take some jabs at Gov. Josh Shapiro as the governor runs for reelection. Trump called Shapiro this:

CorrectIncorrect. XX% of other readers got this question right.

“This guy Shapiro is totally overrated. I watched him the other night doing a speech, and he does not have what it takes,” Trump said in Carlisle. “Maybe he’ll win, and he’s expected to win, but I hear things about Stacy [Garrity], and I’m hearing some poll numbers that are very good. But Shapiro is — he doesn’t have what it takes.” Shapiro, who also attended the summit, held back from pointedly criticizing Trump’s foreign aggression during his panel, and he left the summit before the president’s appearance.

Question 5 of 10

This local personality has the most-searched Wikipedia pages of celebrities born in Lower Merion or Narberth:

CorrectIncorrect. XX% of other readers got this question right.

Topping the list is Narberth native Kylie Kelce, who is also among the top 100 searched celebrities in the region, ranking No. 50 overall. Part of her online rise came about after her podcast “Not Gonna Lie” launched in late 2024.

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Question 6 of 10

A 17-year-old from Lower Merion was booed during the Home Run Derby. How did he respond?

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“I loved that,” 17-year-old Reed Weiner said of the boos. “I think it’s an honor, to be honest. Like, when I go to Phillies games, I love that stuff. I’ll boo everyone.”

Question 7 of 10

What is the goal of the Sunshine Protection Act, which passed in the House?

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The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which aims to extend the amount of daylight when Americans are most active by making daylight saving time permanent. Critics say the concept has drawbacks.

Question 8 of 10

Listed on Margate restaurant Tideline’s drink menu, the ‘Liquid Asset’ is a pricey cocktail. That’s because it comes with this item on the side:

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The drink consists of top-shelf tequila, a big ice cube, and a red chili pepper — for the hefty price of $1.1 million. It comes with a custom-built 39-foot speedboat. If someone buys the “cocktail,” they’ll be presented with a contract to sign off on the purchase price, the boat, and all its features — plus a special engraved bottle of Clase Azul Gold tequila and the cocktail itself.

Question 9 of 10

The Emmy Awards will be a Philly affair. Fresh off concluding its fifth season, the Emmy-winning powerhouse Abbott Elementary returns to the awards ceremony with how many nominations?

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Abbott Elementary received seven nominations, including outstanding comedy series and outstanding casting. West Philly’s Quinta Brunson, Abbott’s star and creator, was nominated for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for her role as Janine Teagues and outstanding writing for a comedy series for the episode “Team Building.” Brunson won an outstanding lead actress Emmy for the same role in 2023 and an outstanding writing award for the Abbott pilot in 2022.

Question 10 of 10

Call Your Mother, the Washington, D.C.-based bagel sandwich shop, has signed for a third Philadelphia location. Where did the married couple and owners, Andrew Dana and chef Daniela Moreira, first meet?

CorrectIncorrect. XX% of other readers got this question right.

The couple met while haggling over the last carton of eggs at a Washington farmer’s market. They eventually became business partners before marrying.

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Reporting: Emily Bloch

Editing: Molly Eichel, Emily Babay, and Joe Berkery

More Quizzes and Games

Citywide Quest: Where were these bridge-themed photos taken?

To celebrate the Benjamin Franklin Bridge turning 100, this week is all about bridges. We’ll show you a photo taken in the Philly-area, you drop a pin where you think it was taken.

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Take our news quiz on Bryce Harper’s new cleats, Will Smith’s Fourth of July, and a famous Point Breeze mural’s future.

Citywide Quest: Where were these July Fourth-themed photos taken?

Happy 250th, America! We’ll show you a July Fourth-themed photo taken in the Philly-area, you drop a pin where you think it was taken. Closer to the location results in a better score. Good luck!

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July 17, 2026
Four people killed by ICE agents. A lawless administration. It won’t stop unless voters act. | Editorial

A poet, a nurse, a construction worker, and a food delivery driver. The four people killed in 2026 by federal immigration agents were regular folks trying to live their lives in peace before they were crushed by the unchecked power of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The brief respite between the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in January and the deaths of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero over the last two weeks shows the government learned nothing from what happened in Minneapolis earlier this year.

There, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, alongside members of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, spread terror and chaos in plain view. Masked and heavily armed, agents trampled people’s constitutional rights as they used excessive force to intimidate and arrest with impunity, ultimately killing Good and Pretti, both U.S. citizens.

Sadly, the national outrage that followed did not dissuade Trump from his misbegotten mission — it merely amounted to a public relations problem addressed with a few firings and a temporary suspension of the siege.

That it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino who lost their jobs instead of Stephen Miller, the white nationalist architect of the president’s immigration crackdown, signaled where the White House stood.

Pennsylvania lawmakers passed a budget — and ducked every hard question | Editorial

Starting in June, the Trump administration once again unleashed ICE on America’s streets, with a reported target of 2,000 arrests a day. With little oversight, zero accountability, no transparency, and goaded by officials to escalate, it is a miracle more people haven’t been killed already. It is also likely that more deaths will follow.

The latest killings share striking similarities. Both Salgado Araujo in Texas and Durán Guerrero in Maine were on their way to work, both were not ICE investigation targets, and both were shot by agents during traffic stops.

Eyewitness video has repeatedly captured agents in unmarked cars aggressively pursuing and cutting off drivers, as well as firing on moving vehicles — tactics long abandoned by most law enforcement agencies, whose use-of-force policies prioritize protecting human life.

Federal immigration agents prepare to raid a house in Minneapolis in January. The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota over the winter led to agents rounding up thousands of migrants and killing two American citizens.VICTOR J. BLUE

Immigration agents have also used banned choke holds and utilized tear gas and pepper spray indiscriminately, even harming children, ProPublica reported. A recent analysis of 1,200 immigration enforcement incidents by the American Civil Liberties Union found that immigration agents are using force and the threat of force as default tactics to coerce, not to respond to any threat.

ACLU researchers concluded there was a systemic breakdown in professional norms and standards with “encouragement of abuse by senior administration officials.”

After Durán Guerrero’s death, cooler heads inside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called for a moratorium on vehicle stops, but were almost immediately overruled by the president, who was reportedly furious.

Todd Blanche hasn’t stopped putting Trump ahead of the law. That’s why he can’t be attorney general. | Editorial

In fact, Trump has consistently shown no empathy nor taken any responsibility for what is being done in his name. If anything, he has doubled down on his inflammatory racist rhetoric against immigrants and anyone who would stand against him.

This should chill every American to the core as much as it should spur us all into action.

What is happening with ICE is not about enforcing immigration law; it is about a lawless administration willing to systematically ignore the Constitution, including every person’s right to walk down the street without fear of being assaulted, detained, or arrested by the government without cause. It is about a president using the vast power of the United States against those he deems a target with little concern about who gets caught in the crossfire.

Once this kind of violence becomes accepted and normalized, its use will not stop. No place and no one will be safe.

Voters must act quickly to hold federal lawmakers accountable.

Republicans in Congress have blindly enabled Trump, acquiescing to his demands, including $70 billion in June for immigration enforcement. That’s on top of the $75 billion ICE received last year. This would be excessive at any other time. Coming when many Americans are struggling to make ends meet as life becomes more unaffordable, it is indefensible.

Trump’s obsession with immigration enforcement is costly, shortsighted, and un-American. And until lawmakers rein in the president, it will be increasingly and indiscriminately deadly.

July 17, 2026
Philadelphia filed stop-work orders for Mole Street’s redevelopment. What happens next?

The work has stopped on the 100 block of North Mole Street, where developers have been attempting to remake this redoubt of historically protected below-market-rate housing.

The developer Purity Homes Inc. and its architect Canno Design got permission from the city’s Historical Commission last year to redevelop a handful of these almost 200-year-old rowhouses.

They planned to build expansive additions on the rear of the houses to allow for more square footage and rentable space and to eventually transform the rest of the block.

However, following an Inquirer article about the project, the Department of Licenses and Inspections issued stop work orders in June for “work not according to approved plans.”

“The Historical Commission had approved modest alterations to the properties,” said city spokesperson Karen Guss.

“The PHC staff member who managed the process of reviewing the developer’s proposed alterations observed out the window that the work actually going on seemed way out of line,” Guss said, referring to the fact that the 100 block of North Mole Street is visible from the offices of the commission, a block to the site’s south.

Armando Ahmad, whose name and address in Arlington, Texas, is listed on several permits for the project, did not respond to requests for comment. Further attempts to reach Purity Homes were unsuccessful as well.

Last year, Purity Homes bought eight of the 30 North Mole Street homes for $3.1 million. More purchases are in the works, although the original architect has left the project.

“We have terminated our agreement with the client, no further comment at this point,” said Carey Jackson Yonce of Philadelphia-based Canno Design.

A Department of Licenses and Inspections spokesperson noted that work continued on the house at 127 N. Mole St., despite the city’s order.

Mole Street in Center City.John Duchneskie

“The police have been assisting with enforcement efforts,” L&I spokesperson Shemeka Moore wrote in a June 26 email.

She also noted that 108 N. Mole had been approved for only a small addition and that a new construction permit would be required for the company’s more expansive plans.

However, following the stop work orders, preservationists and the Historical Commission said Purity Homes was reacting to city regulators in good faith.

“The Historical Commission’s staff is engaged in ongoing, productive discussions with the development team for the 100 block of North Mole Street,” said Jon Farnham, executive director of the Historical Commission. “The developers have acknowledged their missteps and are working diligently to develop a plan to bring the block into compliance.”

For decades, this block of North Mole Street has been a holdout of inexpensive rental rowhouses in an area of Center City otherwise dominated by tall buildings and surface parking lots.

Just west of the Central Friends Meeting, the street has been owned by a family trust, which dates to the 1800s and belongs to descendants of founding father Robert Morris. In 1960, the 30 homes on the block were given historic preservation protections.

The buildings were largely carved into group houses, where airline workers, artists, students, and journalists (including Inquirer reporters) have made their homes.

The block had a reputation for a vigorous party scene, culminating in an annual bacchanalia at the Molestice Festival block party. The celebration began when Jimmy Carter was president and was ended by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Molestice 2019 takes over the 100 block of Mole Street, in what would prove to be the final iteration of the decades-long tradition. Philip Gabriel Photography

As Purity moved on to the block, the company wrote letters to tenants promising to “minimize disruption.” Leases have not been renewed for residents living in the houses controlled by the company.

Tenants who remain have complained about developers starting work extremely early in the morning, parking trucks on the sidewalk in front of their homes, and cutting down all the trees before a scorching summer.

“They definitely don’t mean what they said about minimizing disruption,” said Alex Numan, a resident whose home is not yet owned by Purity, although his lease has been switched to month-to-month in preparation for a sale.

A cartoon by The Inquirer and Daily News’ Signe Wilkinson, dating to the 1980s when many reporters lived on the block.Signe Wilkinson

Since the stop work orders, construction has paused, but many longtime tenants still anticipate being made to leave their homes.

“The planning is still underway, and nothing has been submitted to the Historical Commission yet, but we will ensure that the revised plans preserve the historic character of the designated buildings,” Farnham said.

July 17, 2026
🧑‍🍳 Enduring the heat | Morning Newsletter
Good morning. Let’s finish the week off right.

First, learn how Philly’s kitchen professionals manage to stay as cool as possible throughout the hottest days.

Then, get a look at where all of the tangible signs of the World Cup in Philadelphia have gone to.

Plus, we have updates on the wildfire smoke and its health impacts, and more news of the day.

— Paola Pérez (morningnewsletter@inquirer.com)

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If you can’t take the heat …

Trying to cook up a meal on a scorching hot day can turn real uncomfortable, real fast. It’s a surefire way to feel immediate regret.

🥵 This reality is part and parcel for Philly-area food and restaurant professionals. Toasty days only amplify what they already have to cope with inside their sizzling kitchens.

⛔ They may shut down if temps threaten the integrity of certain dishes.

🧊 To handle one heat wave after another, their solutions require preparedness, hydration, and lots of icy treats.

Food writer Kiki Aranita has the story on how local chefs get through their stifling shifts.

After the final whistle

Goodbye, Philadelphia Stadium. Welcome back, the Linc.

Now that the World Cup takeover is effectively finished (at least as far as Philly games go), FIFA flags and team bench caps are nowhere to be found, and the pitch is returning to its usual form.

But where does everything go after the teardown? What happened to leftover food, and to items like television monitors? Apparently, there’s a WhatsApp group for that.

Sports editor Kerith Gabriel reports on how all the big game gear is finding a second life.

What you should know today
- Pa. officials advise that all residents limit their time and exertion levels outside Friday due to “very unhealthy” air from Canadian wildfire smoke. Whether you are planning to go out or stay home, see what experts suggest to stay healthy, and visit Inquirer.com for updates.
- Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner rallied protesters on Capitol Hill, thumbing his nose at Republicans a day after they subpoenaed him for immigration records.
- The city filed stop-work orders for the redevelopment of a handful of historic rowhouses along Mole Street following an Inquirer article about the project.
- An Inquirer staffer’s interview notes came into the possession of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office during an investigation that led to the high-profile, and recently abandoned, racketeering indictment against South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III.
- Nineteen people have been hospitalized for measles since April in Pennsylvania, state health officials reported in a new online data dashboard launched this week to track the spread of the highly contagious disease.
- Prosecutors withdrew charges against a Philadelphia Family Court judge accused of assaulting his wife and daughter, citing the victims’ wishes and evidence of mitigation.
- After a failed vote that could have ended aid to Israel, Sen. John Fetterman said he’d consider leaving the Democratic Party over a lack of support.
- New Jersey state energy regulators will examine utilities’ handling of recent heat-related outages that affected thousands of residents.
- Amtrak and the Schuylkill River Passenger Rail Authority will work together to revive passenger train service between Philadelphia and Reading after an absence of 45 years.
- The U.S. Mint on Independence Mall will soon begin producing $1 gold-hued coins featuring a portrait of President Donald Trump.
Plus: Can you park in school zones during the summer in Philly?

Welcome back to Curious Philly Friday. We’ll feature both new and timeless stories from our forum for readers to ask about the city’s quirks.

This week, we’re resurfacing an explainer on school zones and whether or not ticket-free parking is possible during the summer months.

While Philadelphia schools are not in session, there may be summer programming to consider. Here’s the full story.

Have your own burning question about Philadelphia, its local oddities, or how the region works? Submit it here and you might find the answer featured in this space.

🧠 Trivia time

This local personality has the most-searched Wikipedia pages of celebrities born in Lower Merion or Narberth:

A) Kylie Kelce

B) Beck Dorey-Stein

C) Sabrina Carpenter

D) Kobe Bryant

Think you know? Test your local news know-how and check your answer in our weekly quiz.

What (and whom) we’re …

🎤 Ready for: Bebe Rexha’s FIFA Fan Fest concert and more shows around Philly this week.

🧀 Proud about: Even the internet’s toughest food critic can’t deny that Philly cheesesteaks rule.

⚾ Applauding: Cole Vanderslice, the former Villanova pitcher who caught the winning Home Run Derby ball — and then did what “felt natural.”

👀 Watching: The Bron-O-Meter updates while we wait on pins and needles, and “King James” quietly lives his best life.

🧠 Considering: Ways to save Pennsylvania’s crumbling behavioral health organizations.

🧩 Unscramble the anagram

Hint: “Yo, Adrian!” biopic

PICKY ROYAL

Email us if you know the answer. We’ll select a reader at random to shout out here.

Cheers to Dustin Flay, who solved Thursday’s anagram: The Sandlot. Eleven locals took part in a tribute to the 1993 classic film at Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park.

Photo of the day

Christian “Machphive” Walker, 28, breakdances at Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. Walker is a professional dancer working with brands such as New Balance and Red Bull.Aidan T. Gallo / Staff Photographer

👋🏽 Thanks for reading. Have a great start to your weekend when you get there.

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July 17, 2026
A real estate developer has sued a South Jersey township for $300 million over its data center ban

A real estate developer sued local officials in Monroe Township for $300 million shortly after the Gloucester County municipality banned data centers. Now, the case has moved to federal court.

Hexa Builders, a Princeton-based real estate developer, has long sought to develop a property at 3043 Black Horse Pike. Hexa filed a lawsuit on June 5 in New Jersey Superior Court after Monroe officials denied its application to build a 1 million-square-foot data center and a warehouse on the property.

The ban, put in place by two ordinances approved by the township on April 22, followed months of public outcry against Hexa’s potential project. Even after the ban was passed and officially took effect on May 13, Monroe Township residents packed the room when Hexa presented its application that still included a data center at a rowdy Special Planning Board meeting on May 22.

In the filing against Monroe’s mayor, township, and planning board, Hexa claimed the application rejection and data center ban are arbitrary, violate freedom of speech rights and the 14th Amendment, and more. The Woodbury Warbler, a local news site, reported on the filing last month.

Jim Maley, Hexa’s lawyer and a partner at Maley Givens in Collingswood, said he expects the ban to be overthrown, since he believes the ban in Monroe stems from trending public disdain for data centers.

“Nobody is giving any testimonial, any scientific reasons for the good of the community. Everybody’s doing it,” Maley said. “It’s just a thing.”

Debate around data centers, which opponents claim will lead to environmental problems and noise, are not new in South Jersey. A massive data center in Vineland is set for completion by the end of the year, while Medford Township passed an ordinance banning data centers in June. Millville in Cumberland County banned large-scale data centers in May after promotions for a new 66-acre “Millville Energy & Data Center Campus” circulated online. Cherry Hill‘s council scheduled a public hearing for July 27 to potentially adopt a ban across the township.

For now, Maley said Hexa is at a standstill. But the company still wants to complete the project, even with the public’s pushback and what could be a lengthy court process.

On July 6, the township moved for the case to be pushed to federal court, closing the Superior Court case, and no federal proceedings are on the docket yet.

“The Township is committed to vigorously and zealously defending this lawsuit while remaining steadfast in its commitment to protecting the interests of the Township, its residents, and its taxpayers,” said Sandra Graise, solicitor for Monroe Township, in an email.

Graise declined to further comment on the case or the data center ban, but the township wrote in a Facebook post last month that the lawsuit wasn’t a surprise.

How the ban came to be

Hexa, led by CEO Dipal Patel, officially obtained the property in a $5 million transfer of about 170 acres of farmland back in 2022. The township has included that land in a resolution for commercial redevelopment since 2019.

The site was previously approved for the construction of hundreds of homes when Hexa bought it, Maley said, but the township ended up moving in a different direction. In 2022, the township approved a redevelopment plan that set the grounds for Hexa to build warehouse, storage, and distribution facilities on Black Horse Pike, but not data centers.

That changed in early 2025, when the township passed an ordinance amending the redevelopment plan to allow data centers.

It didn’t take long for residents to speak out about the impact a data center could have on water quality, pollution, and noise in their neighborhoods, even before Hexa officially added a data center to their plan.

A planning board meeting in January 2026 dragged on for more than four hours because of resident objections, but the township still voted to approve a preliminary site plan for Hexa to move forward with its warehouse and distribution center project. The proposal didn’t include a data center at the time, though the lawsuit filed in June claims that Hexa had already expressed interest in developing one, and residents made it clear they weren’t fans of the possibility.

The township drafted an ordinance in March to set standards for data centers, including noise restrictions and a closed loop cooling system to avoid groundwater withdrawal, but that ordinance was tabled and never moved forward.

Instead, in April, Monroe passed two ordinances: one banning data centers altogether, and another repealing the 2025 ordinance that allowed data centers on Hexa’s property.

“At the end of the day, this Township has now banned any data center use from ever coming to Monroe Township. I thank those residents who attended the many meetings and expressed their concerns. The process worked,” Mayor Greg Wolfe wrote in a May township newsletter.

Two weeks before the ban was adopted, though, Hexa’s legal complaint claimed it submitted an amended application to the township to turn one of its proposed warehouses into a data center.

Maley said the amendment was driven by “interest from the marketplace that began before Township passed the ordinance” that allowed data centers at 3043 Black Horse Pike last year.

When Hexa sought approval for the new application on May 12, the township deemed the company’s application incomplete, prompting Hexa’s lawsuit.

The lawsuit

The $300 million sought by Hexa Builders accounts for financial losses related to the stunted data center project, Maley said.

“The damages all come from real, actual commercial realities here. … It’s the loss of the value of the project,” Maley said.

In its 102-page complaint, initially filed in Gloucester County court on June 5, Hexa claimed that Monroe violated the 14th Amendment by treating Hexa’s plan differently from similarly sized projects, like warehouses and other high water usage facilities, that it claims would have similar environmental and aesthetic impacts.

Hexa also claimed that banning data centers violates the First Amendment and free speech rights, since the facilities could support artificial intelligence and social media communications in the area.

Maley said the data center ban will have “an adverse effect on communications,” and the argument is an effort to adapt constitutional law to today’s tech.

“Data centers are a medium of expression and banning data centers would impose a significant burden on the free speech rights of all citizens in the United States,” the complaint reads.

Those are just some of the 20 counts alleged by Hexa, including that the township didn’t give the company ample notice of its ban as it prepared data center plans. Monroe Township officials have publicly shared their intention to keep mostly silent on the litigation as the case moves forward.

Some residents have continued to speak out at meetings and ask questions about potential loopholes in Monroe’s ordinances to ensure their neighborhoods remain data center-free.

At the township’s planning board session on July 9, Williamstown resident John Romano asked who allowed Hexa’s application to get so far in the first place, and whether Monroe will be able to hold a case against Hexa in court. He said the data center would be right in his backyard.

“I’d like to sit out in my backyard and enjoy a stogie and a cold one and not hear noise and pollution and this and that,” Romano said. “I would like to be able to stay in Monroe Township, live out my golden years here, which was the plan. This has got my wife and I really concerned.”

July 17, 2026
Philly’s kitchen professionals endure one heat wave after another

Even on 100-degree days, Philly’s chefs and cooks are still in the kitchen. For the most part, they only call it quits when the food they’re making can’t take the heat.

How do they make it through their stifling shifts? The answer comes down to preparedness, hydration, and lots of icy treats to lower body temps and boost morale.

Restaurant kitchens can easily run 10 or 20 degrees higher than whatever the temperature is outside, abetted by hot fryers and stoves, plus wood-fired grills and ovens that hover around 500 degrees.

The planning for heat waves starts long before the mercury rises. At Pizzata Pizzeria‘s South Philly location, recently added split-unit air conditioners and commercial kitchen fans have kept temperatures moderate. “They have been tremendously beneficial and helpful to our staff,” said owner Davide Lubrano Lavadera. “For our Rittenhouse spot, we didn’t have a chance to install these units, so we added an evaporative air cooler there.”

Pizzata Pizzeria co-owners and chefs Vinny Gallagher and Davide Lubrano Lavadera pose in the kitchen of their original pizzeria location on 22nd Street near Fitler Square.Craig LaBan / Staff

Two weeks ago, when temperatures spiked over 100 degrees three days in a row, Gilda chef-owner Brian Mattera warned customers on social media that the cafe would close if the heat tipped above 120 degrees in the kitchen — besides being uncomfortable, it would compromise the cooking. The flaky, laminated dough for Gilda’s signature pastéis de nata is notoriously temperamental, Mattera said.

“Our pastry chef, Sophia Fiorenza, is the star of the show. When she comes to me and says the temperature is one or two degrees up, she’s not being dramatic,” Mattera said. “The dough is tacky and difficult to work with. It’s unfortified and it can feel like papier mache.”

When the kitchen temperature is too high, the dough expands and falls off the sheeter, the machine that folds the dough into its many layers. “We say the dough is angry with us,” Mattera said.

The pastéis de nata at Gilda get harder to make in hot weather. Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer

Even in Gilda’s diminutive space, with just six gas burners and a flat-top, Mattera needs five separate HVAC units to maintain the perfect temperature for the dough, around 70 degrees. They weren’t enough to keep the kitchen open during early July’s heat waves: Gilda’s crew called it a day when the temperature behind the line reached 137 degrees.

When the heat’s that intense, Mattera has a trick. “I’ll get a deli container of ice water, bring it into the bathroom, pour it over my head, and go back on the line.”

Chefs in nontraditional kitchens also battle the heat. Josh Broder owns Root to Fruit, a vegan meal-delivery service that operates out of the Culinary Collective commissary space in the Bridesburg neighborhood. “We’ve basically become professional heat dodgers. We start cooking earlier, pack our delivery bags like they’re headed to the Arctic with insulated bags and extra ice packs, and everyone’s usually carrying a water bottle in one hand and a spatula in the other,” he said.

Shiho Utsonomiya, the chef operator of Haha’s Kitchen, rarely closes the tiny food cart she has operated at the corner of Seventh and Spring Garden Streets since 2018. But she was forced to break for a few days leading up to July 4 this year, when the heat became unbearable. She closed the cart Wednesday for the same reason.

Shiho Utsunomiya in her food cart during a heat wave.Kiki Aranita / Staff

“It’s been getting hotter every year,” she said. “Winter, I don’t mind! Minus 17 degrees, no problem. But the heat just kills me.” She’s surrounded by a burner, steam tables, a fryer, and rice cooker. She’s enhanced her setup this year with a rechargeable fan with a mister.

Utsonomiya’s location has a significant benefit: free ice from her best customer. United Refrigeration’s offices are nearby and her cart is popular with their workers.

Extreme heat also prompted Little Walter’s — where the wood-fired grill casts off 120-degree heat, according to chef-owner Michael Brenfleck — to close in early July. Brenfleck said reservations were light during the holiday weekend, but the same could not be said of the following Friday, when the restaurant was nearly fully booked. That presents a challenge in itself: The busier the restaurant, the hotter it is inside.

Chef Michael Brenfleck cooks pierogi at Little Walter’s in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer

“Every person’s body radiates a certain number of BTUs, both in the kitchen and in the dining room,” said Brenfleck. His solution: “We’re going to put some cold specials on the menu, like a chilled pickle soup.”

Brenfleck and Phila Lorn, the chef-owner of Sao and Mawn, were both amazed their respective staff endured the heat without complaint.

“The real ones plan for these times and problem-solve,” Lorn said. “It amazes me to see my chefs in the kitchen crushing it. They’re eating popsicles, [mopping themselves with] cold wet towels, using Gatorade powder, but I swear to you, not one complaint from the back of house.”

Liberty Kitchen staff trades tomato pie for soft serve on hot days. Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer

Heat waves tend to foster community among restaurants — especially when there’s an ice cream shop involved. On the hottest days, the staff at Liberty Kitchen trades boxes of tomato pie with 1-900-ICE-CREAM, according to Liberty Kitchen chef Beau Neidhardt. “They’ll give us individual cups of soft serve for our staff. It’s very neighborly.”

For many restaurant workers, it’s just part of the job.

“We aren’t doing anything that needs to be applauded,” said Mattera. “At the end of the day, we’re all professionals. This is what we do. We can handle the heat.”

July 17, 2026
One year of inspections at Nazareth Hospital: April 2025 – March 2026
Nazareth Hospital was not cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for any safety violations between April 2025 and March of this year.

Located in northeast Philadelphia, the hospital is part of Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic.

Here’s a look at the publicly available details:
- July 1, 2025: Inspectors came to investigate a complaint but found the hospital was in compliance. Complaint details are not made public when inspectors determine it was unfounded.
- Feb. 18, 2026: Inspectors came to investigate a complaint but found the hospital was in compliance.
July 17, 2026
⚾ Throwing it back | Sports Daily Newsletter

As Jordan Walker’s game-winning Home Run Derby ball sailed high into a steamy section of the Citizens Bank Park outfield, what was on Cole Vanderslice’s mind as the ball got closer to where he was standing?

Was it that he was about to have a piece of Philly sports history in his hands? He had something that was going to be worth a good chunk of change, or at a minimum, something he could exchange for swag from Walker.

Nope. There was only one thing on Vanderslice’s mind once he had it firmly in his grasp.

… Throw it back.

Vanderslice, a former pitcher at Villanova, succumbed to peer pressure from the crowd, who urged him to toss it back onto the field, which he did to a raucous cheer.

But does he now regret it? Or was it something he’s always yearned to do? That is what Inquirer writer Isabella DiAmore implores you to find out, as she caught up with Vanderslice to understand what he was really thinking.

It’s not supposed to smell like old shoe leather outside today as the smoke dissipates from the Delaware Valley, but it’s still going to be a steamy Friday with temperatures expected to creep close to 90.

— Kerith Gabriel, @phillysport, sports.daily@inquirer.com.

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First game (back) jitters

Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola exits the game in the seventh inning in Thursday’s game against the New York Mets at Citizens Bank Park. Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer

For the fifth straight season, the Phillies found themselves on the losing end of their first game back after the MLB All-Star break, following a 4-1 loss to the Mets. They contend it wasn’t the smoke that caused their misstep, but an inability to find hits on a night when ace Aaron Nola pitched an impressive six-inning stretch, allowing just one run in that span.

“The weather was a bit different tonight, but it played no part in the final result,” Brandon Marsh said. “We just didn’t play as well as we should have, you know? Yeah, we’ve just got to be better.”

Next: After an off day on Friday, the Phillies resume their series against the Mets on Saturday (4:05 p.m., NBC Sports Philadelphia). Jesús Luzardo (8-4, 3.51 ERA) is scheduled to face Mets lefty Sean Manaea (2-4, 4.56).

What we’re …

🤔 Wondering: Why Jayson Tatum thinks former teammate Jaylen Brown’s move to the Sixers is weird. His words, not ours.

🤨 Sharing: Speaking of “weird,” that’s how Inquirer columnist Marcus Hayes refers to Phillies teammates Zack Wheeler and Bryce Harper.

👀 Watching: How MLB All-Stars reacted to the questions while on the red carpet this week.

📖 Reading: Everything needed to know about the Flyers’ upcoming 2026-27 season schedule that was released Thursday.

Dispatch from Las Vegas

The Sixers look pleased with the work first round draft pick Labaron Philon Jr., has put in so far at Summer League exhibitions in Las Vegas. Tom Gralish / Staff Photographer

While the world eagerly waits for LeBron James to announce where he’ll take his talents next, the show continued for the Sixers at the NBA Summer League, where Labaron Philon Jr., the Sixers’ first-round draft pick, demonstrated why this new-look front office believed it could not pass on him at No. 22.

Also, second-year big man Johni Broome has recovered from knee surgery, and has flashed interior dominance in an environment where he should thrive. Inquirer writer Gina Mizell is there to provide this look at the state of the Sixers from Las Vegas.

Return to the ‘Linc’

The stadium and soccer pitch is dismantled at Lincoln Financial Field as workers began converting the stadium back to its regular playing surface last week. Jose F. Moreno / Staff Photographer

Actor and comedian Shane Gillis is expected to play to a near-capacity crowd Friday night at Lincoln Financial Field, which has been restored to its customary look in the aftermath of hosting six FIFA World Cup matches.

It took a crew of union labor just 11 days to deconstruct and restore the Linc to its original state, which begs the question: From banners to signage and more, what happens to all that World Cup stuff?

FIFA venue director Jolyon Bowman sat down with us to explain the process, along with what happens to everything that made Philly the center of the soccer universe this summer.

The latest on LeBron

Bronometer: What is the current likelihood of LeBron James joining the Sixers?Sam Morris

Have you checked out the Bron-O-Meter lately? As LeBron James’ free agency drags on — and Philadelphia remains among his reported top destinations — we’re tracking the future Hall of Famer’s chances of signing with the Sixers through our wholly unscientific Bron-O-Meter. Our patented technology is powered by reports, our own analysis, and the latest social media buzz … but mostly it’s based on vibes.

On this date

July 17, 2024: Union wunderkind Cavan Sullivan became the youngest player to debut in a North American sports league at just 14 years and 293 days old.

Our best sports 📸 of the week

Patti LaBelle performs the National Anthem before the start of the All-Star Game on Tuesday.Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer

Each Friday, Inquirer photo editors will pick our best shots from the last seven days and share them with you, our readers. We decided to run back MLB All-Star week one more time, along with the awesome events and moments that surrounded it. Check it out right here.

Mike Sielski’s take …

In his latest column, Mike Sielski takes a look at the binding popularity and power of our city’s sports statues. Julia Duarte / Staff Illustration, Photo by Jose F. Moreno / Staff Photographer

“Think of the controversies that have followed [city statues] … controversy that on the surface, is about what the statues represent and where they belong, but that is really about class, commercialism, and community.” — In his latest video op-ed, Mike Sielski examines the decision to have a full-on Rocky Exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Museum, and sees it as a sign that the city has finally fully embraced the statue’s popularity, and power.

What you’re saying about sports movies

We asked: What’s your favorite sports movie?

Rocky No. 1, hands down. Not only did the storyline embrace the character and culture of the city, but the soundtrack still permeates the Linc on any given Sunday! The Rocky statue is an iconic tourist attraction, and chanting “Yo Adrian!” is an ice breaker at any local event in and around the city. — Bob C.

My favorite sports movie is Field of Dreams, but my second is an old comedy of my youth in 1949 called It Happens Every Spring, starring Ray Milland and Philadelphia’s Paul Douglas, who at one time announced Penn football games. — Everett S.

My favorite sports movie was “Eight Men Out”, the story of the men who participated in the Black Sox gambling scandal. This was a fascinating look at the people involved in fixing the 1919 World Series. You realize after watching the movie that these men weren’t necessarily the evil people they have been portrayed to be, although their actions were absolutely abhorrent. — Tom E.

We compiled today’s newsletter using reporting from Isabella DiAmore, Scott Lauber, Gina Mizell, Kerith Gabriel, Ariane Datil, Mike Sielski, Sam Morris, Matt Mullin, Marcus Hayes, Gabriela Carroll, Jackie Spiegel, Jonathan Tannenwald, Becca O’Reilly, and The Inquirer’s photography staff.

By submitting your written, visual, and/or audio contributions, you agree to The Inquirer’s Terms of Use, including the grant of rights in Section 10.

That’s the week. Appreciate you hanging with me for a good chunk of it. Here’s to smokeless skies and Schwarbombs all weekend. We’ll catch you on Monday. — Kerith

July 17, 2026
Why recruiters can’t find workers and new grads can’t find jobs (it’s not AI)

Recent college graduates complain they can’t find entry-level jobs because artificial intelligence is taking over.

Yet, tech recruiter Matt Walsh and other experts say the growth of AI and the struggle to find entry-level work mask a bigger problem: The United States is facing what’s projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history.

In sectors such as semiconductor production, the problem isn’t AI or too few jobs, said Walsh, CEO of the Phoenix-based search firm Blue Signal.

“It’s ridiculous,” he said. “There just aren’t enough people.”

Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a skills shortage and population shifts, will be vast and reach beyond tech.

It “could hobble the American economy for years to come,” predicts the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Lightcast, a labor market data company, calls it “the largest labor shortage the country has ever seen.” JPMorgan Chase warns of a national security risk from “a pervasive talent deficit that constrains the nation’s capacity to build, compete, and protect its interests.”

There will be shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction workers, and airplane mechanics — jobs AI generally can’t do.

“All of these people who keep a society functioning are the very people we’re not going to have enough of,” said Ron Hetrick, Lightcast’s principal economist.

Among the trends that have been leading to this moment: a mismatch between the careers college graduates are pursuing and the jobs employers are struggling to fill. Far fewer students are majoring in healthcare fields than are needed to meet demand, for instance.

“We have pumped so many young people into business and finance” when what’s really in demand are graduates in other fields, Hetrick said. “It’s like a factory producing these workers like widgets, even though society is saying, ‘We really don’t need them.’ And the factory just keeps pumping them out.”

But the principal reason for the looming workforce shortages is much more basic. A protracted decline in birth rates is coinciding with a record wave of retirements, data shows.

From 2024 to 2032, when the last baby boomers sign up for Social Security payments, more than 18 million college-educated workers will leave the labor force while fewer than 14 million enter it, according to the Georgetown center. Meanwhile, even as the number of people with associate and bachelor’s degrees falls, the number of jobs requiring them will grow, the center forecasts.

That will leave a gap of 4.6 million workers. Lightcast puts the deficit at an even higher 6 million.

The shortages are already showing up, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reported. It said that in many industries, even if every worker now unemployed were plugged into an open job, positions would still be left unfilled.

“We have a crisis in front of us in not preparing people for the world that’s coming,” said Bill Haslam, the Republican former governor of Tennessee and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on the American Workforce.

The effect of population shifts on the supply of talent, with or without degrees, has been compounded by a drop in the proportion of high school graduates choosing to go to college, a sharply reduced rate of immigration, and a growing number of Americans leaving the workforce altogether because of such issues as lack of childcare, early retirement, incarceration, and substance addiction, according to the Chamber of Commerce.

College and university enrollment in 2023 was down by nearly 2 million students since its peak in 2010, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Education Department. The low birth rate since 2010 means the number of college-age Americans is forecast to decline by another 13% through 2041.

Fewer than half as many people immigrated to the United States last year as the year before, the Census Bureau says, yet 41% of the home health aides increasingly needed to care for the nation’s aging population have historically come from somewhere else, along with a fifth of nursing assistants, dentists, pharmacists, and registered nurses.

“We’re doing a fantastic job of rolling up the welcome mat and saying, ‘We don’t want you,’” said Brad Hershbein, senior economist and deputy director of research at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

The semiconductor industry is among those raising warning flags about the problem of finding workers. It’s projected to grow by nearly 115,000 jobs by 2030, which is 67,000 more than the number of current and projected technicians and engineers, the Semiconductor Industry Association estimates.

“The semiconductor industry is not alone here,” however, said Erik Hadland, the association’s director of technology policy. “We’re a small part of a much larger issue.”

State governments have been scrambling to get ahead of the problem. To get college graduates to come or stay and work, some will help them pay off their student loans. A bill under consideration in Minnesota would offer in-state tuition to most public colleges and universities for children of parents who take jobs in that state, waiving the previous requirement that students have graduated from a Minnesota high school after attending for at least three years.

Several states have combined their higher education and workforce development agencies, including Missouri and Colorado. Connecticut has established both an Office of Workforce Strategy and a Career Pathways Commission. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has formed a working group to review that state’s workforce development infrastructure and increase the number of college graduates.

Some states face shortages that appear more severe than others. South Dakota has just 41 workers for every 100 open jobs, for instance, while California and nine other states have more workers than jobs, the Chamber of Commerce found.

In Pennsylvania, a study commissioned by the state’s Department of Education has projected that the state needs to increase the number of people with credentials beyond high school by more than 4% to fill a shortage of 218,000 such workers a year by 2032. That will be a significant challenge, considering that college enrollment there has generally been falling.

Industries in which workers don’t require college degrees are also seeing shortages. Fewer than half as many people are entering the construction trades as are needed, for example, according to Branka Minic, CEO of the Building Talent Foundation, which represents 3,600 employers who are trying to fill that gap.

“There’s plenty of jobs” in the skilled trades, she said, some starting at $50 an hour. “Show me what college graduates earn that kind of rate.” As for the prospect that AI can fill those largely physical roles, she recalled seeing a poster plastered on an unfinished building. “Finish this, ChatGPT,” it said, mockingly.

Some savvy workers are figuring it out for themselves.

Seth Russell’s high school counselor nudged him toward college. Instead he learned welding and now works full-time as a fabricator.

“I got hired straight out of high school. I have no debt. I’m just making money, paying bills,” said Russell, now 22, who lives in Torrance, Calif. “There’s so many jobs out there.”

This story about shortages of workers was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

July 17, 2026
The Big Picture: Our favorite photos from All-Star Week in Philadelphia

Each Friday, Inquirer photo editors pick the best sports images from the last seven days. And this week, there’s no question what the biggest show in town was: the MLB All-Star festivities. After a month of World Cup soccer dominating the Philly sports scene, it was time for baseball to take over. Here’s what our photographers saw …

‘My favorite place to play’: Philly and Citizens Bank Park were All-Stars on a magical night. Just ask the actual All-Stars. | David Murphy

Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper lives up to his “Showman” nickname by climbing up the ropes of a boxing ring on the field during his MLB Home Run Derby introduction.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

Phillies fans provided a ‘home field’ advantage with their boos at Home Run Derby

Phillies designated hitter Kyle Schwarber reacts after his turn in the final round of the Home Run Derby. He lost to Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

Schwarbombs, boos and a walkoff: A 3D look at how Jordan Walker ruined a near storybook Home Run Derby for Phillies fans

A fan reacts after catching a home run from Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero during the MLB Home Run Derby.Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer

St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker celebrates after hitting the winning home run at the MLB Home Run Derby.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

He caught Jordan Walker’s winning Home Run Derby ball. Then this Phillies fan did what ‘felt natural.’ He threw it back.

A fan celebrates after catching a home run from Walker earlier in the night.Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer

This 17-year-old from Lower Merion was booed during the Home Run Derby. He called it ‘an honor.’

Phillies closer pitcher Jhoan Duran poses for photos with his family at the MLB All-Star Game Red Carpet on Independence Mall on Tuesday afternoon.Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer

Kyle Schwarber walks the red carpet with his family.Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer

Brandon Marsh’s dry hair, Paul Skenes matches Livvy Dunne, and the best looks from the MLB All-Star Game red carpet

All-Star players are interviewed in a tent for MLB Network’s broadcast of the red carpet event.Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer

All-Stars weigh in on Philly fans’ boos during Home Run Derby, receive a (mostly) warm reception on the red carpet

Philly’s Patti LaBelle performs the national anthem before the start of the All-Star Game.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

Phillies pitcher Jesus Luzardo tossed a 1-2-3 inning, while teammate Cristopher Sànchez allowed the only three runs of the game.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

A ‘super impressive’ first Philly All-Star Game in 30 years was a hit with fans

Junior Caminero is hit by a pitch during the third inning of the MLB All-Star Game.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

The National League got shut out in the All-Star Game, but it was a night to remember for the Phillies

The fireworks show before the start of the fifth inning was a tribute to the movie “The Sandlot.”Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

How MLB’s All-Star Game tribute to ‘The Sandlot’ came together — and what the kids said about their experiences with major leaguers

Jimmy Rollins celebrates after hitting a home run during the MLBx: All-Star 3-on-3 event on Sunday at Citizens Bank Park, but his team ultimately lost to Shane Victorino’s squad.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

Team Victorino wins the first-ever MLBx: All-Star 3-on-3 competition during MLB All-Star weekend

Florida A&M University’s Jackson McKenzie, a member of the HBCU American League team, loses his bat in the seventh inning of the HBCU Swingman Classic, which featured baseball players from historically Black colleges and universities.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

The HBCU Swingman Classic kicks off the All-Star festivities in Philly: ‘It was just phenomenal’

HBCU American League pitcher James Peterson, of Alabama State University, loses his hat during the second inning of the Swingman Classic.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

The Griffeys hope their legacy can be used as a force to attract interest in Black American players | Claire Smith

Phillies prospect Wen-Hui Pan pitches in the sixth inning of the 2026 All-Star Futures Game. Fellow Phillies prospect Gage Wood started the game for the National League.David Maialetti / Staff Photographer

Phillies prospect Gage Wood gets a preview of his potential future home in Futures Game

National League Futures manager Shane Victorino (center) takes a selfie with members of his team before the start of the game.David Maialetti / Staff Photographer

HBCU American League team members celebrate around Ken Griffey Jr. (center, in white shirt) after winning the HBCU Swingman Classic.Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

July 17, 2026