Frankly Philadelphia: Daily Philly News

Ben Franklin reads the morning-after rundown: Josh Shapiro wins a second term, Bob Harvie flips the First District in Bucks County, and 'I Play Rocky' opens this week. Real news, made-up host. This is Frankly Philadelphia. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/3a1d0f92-5513-4fcd-866e-ca432a08de53

Ben Franklin reads Election Day in Philadelphia: poll hours, the mail-ballot rule that trips people up, and who is on the governor's ballot. Plus the 7-1 Sixers, PHA's $65 million Chestnut Street build, and the Art Museum's money problem. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/1c33066c-a665-4fc3-8cc0-3af074db0da0

Ben Franklin reads the day: your election-week calendar (a South Street history night, the Fleisher ofrenda, pop-up omakase), what the state says corner-store skill games really took in, and the DA's new Election Protection Task Force ahead of Tuesday's vote. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/7156df78-7f82-4ae5-a32f-db4e774092cc

Ben Franklin reads the day: Zitner's is making chocolate again in Hatfield, Bridgeton voters decide their library's fate, Pennsylvania mail ballots are due by 8 p.m. Tuesday, and the purple PHLASH adds 30th Street Station. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/2223c8c9-478e-4a23-9ce3-5b153305f7a3

Ben Franklin reads the day: a couple marries outside the Linc before Eagles-Cowboys, City Hall names Philadelphia's first rat czar, two charter questions hit Tuesday's ballot, and Billy Penn counts 39 restaurant closures. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/49c10337-cce6-4232-b052-60439037e894

Ben Franklin reads the day: a 14-room haunt inside a former Forever 21 in the Fashion District, Main Line Today Restaurant Week starts Sunday, the school district moves to fire its social studies curriculum director, and the ballot rules for Tuesday. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/abc332ad-fd45-4e82-bd97-2c1cfab69634

Ben Franklin reads the day: Field Day, Northern Liberties' new 45-cocktail bar from a James Beard Award-winning bartender; two Tampa best friends driving toy cars from Philly toward Niagara Falls for a Guinness record and a mental-health cause; and the Philadelphia Gas Commission wants a complete accounting of free trips accepted by PGW's CEO. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/d3840948-e048-42fa-9dcd-06531f4497c8

Ben Franklin reads the day: the SS United States finally gets a date for its final voyage — Thursday, Nov. 12 at 10 a.m., livestreamed — before Florida's Okaloosa County sinks the $1 million liner as the world's largest artificial reef. Plus: East Market's new Corte Oven & Bar keeps the pizza oven but drops the pizza, New Jersey's Nov. 2 deadline for ANCHOR, Senior Freeze and Stay NJ property tax relief, and DOJ election monitors headed to Philly polling places. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/7c065ab3-7c45-40af-b921-e5561d67c165

Delco Frank on the sold-out overnight ghost hunt at Fort Mifflin, the grown-up Halloween calendar now that the holiday lands on a Saturday, and Fishtown pioneer Front Street Cafe selling to the D.C. group behind Tiger Fork, with a $4.8 million asking price. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/8c455c7c-2d38-40b3-a0ae-b8d8b1d4a0ba

Delco Frank on the Philly Portal's final week in LOVE Park, the question of what it will really take to keep raw sewage out of Frankford Creek, and Germantown neighbors archiving their family history at the library. Real news, made-up host. Get the email version: https://frankly-philadelphia.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sources and corrections: https://posts.projectbh.dev/sources/4c068ddc-d85d-456c-9b0d-36a0d544bf77