Mayor Parker OKs Arena, More Presidential Candidate Visits, & After-Hours Food Truck Market

It’s the Friday News Roundup! We’re talking about the endorsement Mayor Cherelle Parker gave for the Sixers arena downtown and reactions around the city, both Harris & Trump presidential campaigns are back in the region, and late night food is coming to Fishtown. Host Trenae Nuri is joined by O.J. Spivey, sports correspondent, for The Philadelphia Tribune, and Gene Sonn, director of collaborations at Resolve Philadelphia, a nonprofit journalism advocacy organization, and co-lead at the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative.

Our Friday news roundups are powered by great local journalism:

• Philly Mayor Parker backs Sixers arena in Center City: opponents protest outside City Hall
• WATCH: WHYY hosts Kamala Harris, NABJ for presidential candidate interview
• Donald Trump will visit a Polish Catholic shrine in Bucks County, his second trip to the purple Philly collar county
• Fishtown is Opening a First of Its Kind Overnight Food Truck Marketplace That Will be Open 9m to 4 am
• Biking and building: How one local bike club is strengthening community bonds
• PIAA board of directors approves girls’ flag football as a state-sanctioned sport
• Eagles Expand Girls Flag Football Program

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