Ryan Briggs

The Philadelphia Citizen is in negotiations to buy Philadelphia magazine Conversations about the future of the storied print magazine have been going on for more than a year.

No secret the family that owns Philly Mag is looking to unload the business

But it seems investors behind the Philadelphia Citizen have been in talks to buy the storied print magazine for over a year www.inquirer.com/news/philly-...

The Philadelphia Citizen is in negotiations to buy Philadelphia magazine Conversations about the future of the storied print magazine have been going on for more than a year.

Investors involved with the Philadelphia Citizen are currently in negotiations to purchase Philadelphia magazine, multiple sources confirmed to my colleagues @ryanbriggs.bsky.social and @zoegberg.bsky.social. www.inquirer.com/news/philly-...

Eagles stars to speak at Life Surge, a Christian wealth seminar run by founder with fraud allegations Nick Sirianni and Saquon Barkley are headlining a Christian wealth conference organized by Joe Johnson, whose companies have faced lawsuits and allegations of fraud and deceptive business practices.

Never meet your heroes...or take their investment advice www.inquirer.com/eagles/lifes...

Eagles stars to speak at Life Surge, a Christian wealth seminar run by founder with fraud allegations Nick Sirianni and Saquon Barkley are headlining a Christian wealth conference organized by Joe Johnson, whose companies have faced lawsuits and allegations of fraud and deceptive business practices.

Life Surge, a touring Christian investing seminar is coming to the WFC tmrw, with guest speakers like Nick Sirianni and Saquon Barkley

But past attendees say the celebrity speakers mask a get rich quick scheme. And its founder has been sued for fraud: www.inquirer.com/eagles/lifes...

Eagles stars to speak at Life Surge, a Christian wealth seminar run by founder with fraud allegations Nick Sirianni and Saquon Barkley are headlining a Christian wealth conference organized by Joe Johnson, whose companies have faced lawsuits and allegations of fraud and deceptive business practices.

High overlap in this @ryanbriggs.bsky.social Eagles scam piece with the ones who defended hanging with Trump.

The story of how a Porsche ended up on a hiking trail in the middle of Wissahickon Valley Park On Monday morning, a Porsche Panamera was discovered on a narrow hiking trail alongside the Wissahickon Creek in Northwest Philly. Conspiracy theories emerged, online and on the trail.

The trails of Wissahickon Valley Park are for hikers, runners, bikers, and horses.

…Yet, there it was Monday morning, a Porsche. With some fiber pills inside and a probiotic shake, according to one hiker.

The fun read you didn’t know you needed, via @wbender99.bsky.social @ryanbriggs.bsky.social

The story of how a Porsche ended up on a hiking trail in the middle of Wissahickon Valley Park On Monday morning, a Porsche Panamera was discovered on a narrow hiking trail alongside the Wissahickon Creek in Northwest Philly. Conspiracy theories emerged, online and on the trail.

1. This @ryanbriggs.bsky.social story is BONKERS.

2. Rich people really DO think the rules don’t apply to them.

3. Did he answer why he is illegally going through tollbooths without an EZPass transponder?

www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

The story of how a Porsche ended up on a hiking trail in the middle of Wissahickon Valley Park On Monday morning, a Porsche Panamera was discovered on a narrow hiking trail alongside the Wissahickon Creek in Northwest Philly. Conspiracy theories emerged, online and on the trail.

this story is nuts, well done @wbender99.bsky.social and @ryanbriggs.bsky.social

We’re gonna be hosting labor leader Ryan Boyer at the Pen and Pencil Club for an “Off the Record” Q&A next Wednesday at 7pm

This should be a very interesting one and space is limited so register now!

penandpencil.org/content.aspx...

The story of how a Porsche ended up on a hiking trail in the middle of Wissahickon Valley Park On Monday morning, a Porsche Panamera was discovered on a narrow hiking trail alongside the Wissahickon Creek in Northwest Philly. Conspiracy theories emerged, online and on the trail.

👏🏼👏🏼 @wbender99.bsky.social & @ryanbriggs.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Trips to Israel, Taiwan among gifts accepted by PA lawmakers Top PA officials accepted $119K in gifts and travel from lobbyists and others seeking to influence government in 2024.

A week long AIPAC-funded sojourn to Israrel. A bipartisan junket to Taiwan. Hot dogs and zoo tickets to hold shindigs for constituents. And, of course, Eagles seats. That's a taste of the $119k in trips & trinkets gifted to top state lawmakers last year.
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/05...

Josh Shapiro used billionaire Michael Rubin’s luxury helicopter on $68K in campaign trips last year Shapiro’s acceptance of in-kind contributions from Rubin has raised questions from good government advocates about the access the uber-wealthy have to him, a premise that his staff rejects.

Seems concerning that our governor is addicted to taking rides on a billionaire’s helicopter www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Convention Center billboard developer says he doesn’t have to pay $15 million in community benefits Thaddeus Bartkowski says the billboards he’s building don’t fall under a law that would require compensating neighbors like Reading Terminal Market, the Rail Park, and a condo association.

Embarrassing all around www.inquirer.com/business/bil...

‘Self-promotion’ or informing the public? Mayor Cherelle Parker and Council use taxpayer money to sell their wins Philly pols are throwing millions of city dollars at billboards and ads in PR arms race

Philadelphia politicians want you to know more about their accomplishments. They also want taxpayers to pay for the privilege.

Seems pretty unforgivable to let a major educational institution spiral out of control, but it would be especially bad if it was all over one person

Philly auto owners typically pay way more than their suburban counterparts for insurance, and it's getting worse.

@joeyerardi.bsky.social and Joe DiStefano have more: www.inquirer.com/business/aut...

Correction: that 14% gain is subway and El, RR is up 3%. But still good YOY performance from all modes

Philly Sheriff seeks new headquarters, academy, and $20 million budget boost Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal pitched City Council on a major increase to her staff and $34 million budget, and sought leases for a new office headquarters and a local academy.

“During Tuesday’s Council hearing, Council President Kenyatta Johnson expressed skepticism at Bilal’s request for a nearly 55% budget increase…given that her office is struggling to fill dozens of jobs already approved in the budget.”

🧐 via @ryanbriggs.bsky.social @wbender99.bsky.social

With funding still frozen in Harrisburg, SEPTA is posting double digit ridership gains on regional rail & strong growth on bus lines

How many meetings does it take in Philadelphia to build 57 affordable homes? A lot. The Philadelphia Housing Authority and developer Pennrose have been trying to get project approval since 2019. The cost has risen, and federal funding could be at risk.

An affordable project in North Philly has been delayed for years because its slated for city-owned land, which City Council controls. That's meant an extensive public engagement campaign that shrunk the size of the project, which still isn't fully approved www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Fracking-powered crypto mine in Pennsylvania shuts down without word to regulators • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Fracking-powered crypto mine in Pennsylvania shuts down without word to regulators

The company set up and started the mine in Elk County.

After a little more than two years, the company has packed up and left, abandoning the wells and associated crypto infrastructure in violation of state law, according to state regulators.

From @capitalandmain.bsky.social

How the restoration of Philly’s historic 30th St. Station became a corruption bonanza Contractors lavished an Amtrak manager with $150,000 in cash bribes, luxury cars, vacations, and a pure-bred German shepherd puppy. In exchange, he approved millions of dollars in extra work.

Another example of the glorious cost savings from public-private partnerships www.inquirer.com/crime/amtrak...

For the third year in a row, Philadelphians await the commonwealth’s budget with bated breath.

Opinion writer Daniel Pearson asks: Will SEPTA get the funding it desperately needs? Or is it three strikes and we’re out half of our Regional Rail network?

🔗 www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

The Pa. Supreme Court reprimanded him as a lawyer. Philly Democrats want to make him a judge anyway. Judicial candidates like Shawn Page who win the party’s endorsement almost always triumph in the primary.

A suburban lawyer was disciplined by the courts for bailing on a client & was pursued by the IRS over hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax debt

But he moved to Philly last year and did some favors for ward leaders

Now, Bob Brady wants to make him a judge: www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Amputations are soaring as a tranq crisis takes hold in the Philly region To amputate or save a limb? Philly’s tranq crisis is forcing doctors to make difficult choices amid a slow public health response to the latest threat in the drug epidemic.

Amputations among people addicted to opioids have doubled in five years in Philadelphia.

To learn why, @maxmmarin.bsky.social, @dylancpurcell.bsky.social and I spent more than six months digging into medical data and interviewing doctors and patients: www.inquirer.com/health/a/tra...

“MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy,” a six-part podcast The Inquirer is cohosting with @tulogancenter.bsky.social, is based on interviews with MOVE members, neighbors, and journalists who covered the bombing and fire that city officials let burn until they could not control it. (1/3)

Mack Trucks announces layoffs at Lehigh Valley plant, blames tariffs • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Union leaders announced the company had confirmed layoffs Thursday afternoon. The plant in Macungie employs around 1,200 workers.

Mack Trucks will lay off between 250 and 350 workers at its Lehigh Valley Operations center outside Allentown over the next three months, due to economic uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs, a company spokesperson said Thursday.

Lancaster County’s incoming Democratic state Sen. James Malone backs bill to restrict trans women and girl athletes Lancaster County’s first Democratic state senator in more than a century said Thursday that he plans to support legislation that would restrict transgender women and girls who want to participate

Lancaster County’s incoming Democratic state Sen. James Malone backs bill to restrict trans women and girl athletes lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

Fate of Germantown YWCA remains in limbo as developer’s appeal for control of the building fails A failed bid to claim a long-vacant city property leaves the building's future in doubt.

More evidence that nothing is more offensive to City Council members than someone challenging their authority over land use

This building has been needlessly rotting in middle of Germantown for nearly a decade based on the whim of a councilmember www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Philly has 16,000 alleys. Keeping them clean and clear is a big job. Thousands of Philly’s alleys are plagued by trash, overgrown trees, roots, and even illegal gates. These workers get them clean.

Philly’s overall sanitation plan is still pretty uneven, but I will say that under Parker my street started getting regular sweeping, twice weekly trash pickup & crews cleaned out alleys on both sides of our block www.inquirer.com/news/philade...