Ryan W Briggs
@rw_briggs
Researcher with @PhillyInquirer investigations. email: rbriggs at http://inquirer.com / @ryanbriggs.bsky.social
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: inquirer.com/eagles/lifesur…
flipped my car making a wide turn onto a narrow street because bike lane paint (not regular road paint of course; that hasn't been infected by the woke agenda) acts like a mario kart banana peel
Yesterday’s Accident at 9th & Spruce was caused by a Car Turning Wide Onto a Street Already Made Too Narrow by the Bike Lane. Concrete Barricades Would Have Created a Bigger Disaster. @PhillyMayor @CouncilmemberKJ @marksquilla @ThielAdam @GeorgeBochetto @PhillyOTIS @PPD09Dist
An 82 year old grandfather granted political asylum in the US after surviving disappearance and torture under Pinochet was grabbed by ICE, who then told his family he died in custody; a month later turns out he was deported, is now in a Guatemalan hospital mcall.com/2025/07/18/lui…
Big-dollar donors are helping fund repairs at the governor’s mansion. For now, we don’t know who they are. inquirer.com/politics/penns…
Mayor Cherelle Parker has tapped ex-NBC10 anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah to lead Philadelphia’s civil rights agency inquirer.com/politics/phila…
Crazy private swimming pool situation for sale in south philly - anyone want to chip in?
Mayor Parker hired Renee Chenault-Fattah - former news anchor, attorney, wife of disgraced Congressman Chaka Fattah - to a $170k job leading the city’s human rights commission Ngl this story is mostly a recap of the other political relatives Parker hired: inquirer.com/politics/phila…
An Allentown grandfather’s reported deportation went viral. Then discrepancies emerged. Here’s what we know. inquirer.com/news/pennsylva…
"At the same time, the proportion of people arrested without a criminal record or pending criminal charges has exploded, up two-thirds" inquirer.com/news/pennsylva…
AFSCME DC 33 members approve contract agreement with city following eight-day strike inquirer.com/politics/phila…
Hanwha wants to build a lot more ships in Philly as U.S. seeks to stimulate domestic industry inquirer.com/business/hanwh…
SEPTA is urging families in the Philadelphia region to start planning now for how their children will get to and from school next month. cbsnews.com/philadelphia/n…
There are probably lots of policy reasons suburban housing nimbyism is bad but as a Philly partisan I can only view this stuff as a net positive for the city bizjournals.com/philadelphia/n…
"Fitzpatrick was not the only Pennsylvania Republican in Congress to propose to a Fox News political correspondent last month...U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R., Pa), who represents Southwestern Pennsylvania, proposed to Brooke Singman" inquirer.com/politics/penns…
My radical policy idea is that it should not take "one year of organizing" to get the city to flip a one-way sign around, put in a stop sign, add a speed bump etc etc inquirer.com/news/philadelp…
Always stay til the end of council meetings, young reporters, because at some point the council president may confess to getting high & shooting someone in the head pennlive.com/news/2025/07/p…