Mike Lyons

1Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemical Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 2The Epilepsy NeuroGenetics Initiative (ENGIN), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 3Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA 4Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Center (ENDD), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of...

Complaining about SEPTA has been a Philly pastime for generations (they may never live down “We’re Getting There“). Buses that never show; ones that blow by you at a stop because they’re full; that long wait on a cold winter morning only for three buses to show up at once. Most of us have been there.

Open houses for a planned independent community school in West Philly begin this Saturday, Oct. 1. Set to open in Fall 2023, the Roots and Branches School is recruiting kindergartners and first graders, according to experienced West Philly educator and the school’s director Rowan Machalow. “Our vision is providing a broad and balanced elementary education to children from a range of cultural and financial backgrounds in the West Philadelphia community,” Machalow wrote in an email.