Eliza Griswold on Philadelphia’s new mayor, Cherelle Parker, the first Black woman elected to that office in the city’s history.
On November 7th, Parker easily defeated the Republican candidate, a former city councilman David Oh, with seventy-five per cent of the vote.
Along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a barn outside Harrisburg invites passersby to “REPENT” and serves as a reminder that Pennsylvania is home to fifty-two thousand farms. Yet, in Harrisburg, Parker proved highly successful in working with different contingents of her own party—as well as across the aisle—to craft economic policy that helped Philadelphia become more fiscally stable, cutting the deficit in the city’s pension funding in half and implementing a cigarette tax to fund public education.
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