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Mass vaccination clinic opened with fanfare, closed amid rifts of trust Frances Stead Sellers, The Washington Post Feb. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6People wait in an observation area after receiving a coronavirus vaccine at the mass-vaccination site set up by Philly Fighting COVID at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 15, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel WisniewskiShow MoreShow Less 2of6Andrei Doroshin poses for a photo at his Philadelphia apartment in January 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel WisniewskiShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6Dominic Os...

Philadelphia Mayor Kenney urged to use Lincoln Financial Field as mass COVID-19 vaccination site WPVI Share: Why not in Philadelphia, at Lincoln Financial Field? On Wednesday, members of city council and former leaders publicly asked that question. Mayor Jim Kenney has opposed a mass vaccination site at the Linc. "Join with us, work together. We don't have to work in silos," said Councilwoman Cindy Bass. Calling this plan "Operation Philly Special," council members Allan Domb, Cindy Bass, Katherine Gilmore Richardson, Mark Squilla and Derek Green were joined by former congressman Bob Brady an...

Philadelphia’s mayor has decided that it’s no longer acceptable to celebrate Columbus Day. The Delaware Valley has always honored its Italian-American citizens on the Sunday closest to Oct. 12 by

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WHYY By Dancers from the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe join hands with spectators at the 2019 Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) The city of Philadelphia will no longer observe Columbus Day — and that has organizers of the city’s annual celebration up in arms. By executive order, Mayor Jim Kenney changed the holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Jody Della Barba, Secretary of the 1492 Society which plans the annual Columbus Day parade, is upset. “To me, it’s bigotry,” she said. ...