Chris Compendio

Writer and Digital Media Specialist

Featured Philly News Articles

As a reporter for PhillyVoice, I covered a variety of topics relating to the Greater Philadelphia area. Below is a selection of my PhillyVoice news articles, including several original pieces of breaking news. The subjects I covered include, but are not limited to, public transit, higher education, popular culture, the LGTBQ+ community, businesses, restaurants, and sports.

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Resident physicians at Einstein vote to unionize, and those in other Philly hospitals may soon, too

Resident physicians and fellows at Einstein Healthcare Network voted Wednesday to join the nation's largest house staff union. The residents and fellows voted, 365 to 35, to unionize under the Committee of Interns and Residents, which is part of the Service Employees International Union and represents more than 33,000 hospital staffers in the United States. The vote comes amid a wider push toward unionization by doctors in training.
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Wawa is closing its experimental Center City store with a pickup window

Wawa is shutting down a Center City store that it used to test the viability of smaller urban stores.The store at 16th and Ranstead streets is closing Monday. The store, which opened in 2020, measures about 3,000 square feet – lower than the company's preferred size of 4,000 to 6,000 square feet. It features a pick-up window, allowing people to grab their hoagie and sandwich orders without entering the store, but its selection of prepackaged foods is more limited than other Wawas and it does not sell tobacco products.
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Philly youth sports programs get $3 million from city for travel expenses, equipment upgrades and other expenses

Philadelphia organizations devoted to youth development and violence prevention through sports and recreation are getting a financial boost from the city. The city's $6.37 billion budget, passed last summer, includes a $3 million investment in these programs. On Monday, Mayor Cherelle Parker and others detailed how some of this funding is being allocated.
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National News

While most of my news writing have focused on local issues, I have also written several news stories and primers about national politics, particularly during U.S. presidential election years.

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Vanity Fair Thought It Was a Good Idea to Suggest That Hillary Clinton Take up Knitting

In the year of the Women’s March, pussy hats and #MeToo, the push against rampant casual sexism is strong and prominent. But then you have this shit from Vanity Fair slipping in. The magazine’s politics and business vertical, Hive, put out a series of videos suggesting some New Year’s resolutions for politicians. One suggestion in particular, made for Hillary Clinton, has provoked the ire of the Twittersphere.
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House Passes GOP Tax Plan, Senate to Vote on Bill Tonight

The news cycle throughout 2017 has been full of stressful, yet utterly predictable and unsurprising developments. The Republican Party decided to cap off the year by passing their unpopular tax reform bill—the vote was almost entirely along party lines, at 227-203. The $1.5 trillion Republican tax bill will go through the Senate for a vote tonight or Wednesday, with the GOP hoping for President Donald Trump to sign the bill into law by Christmas. As if a lump of coal in our stockings wasn’t enough.
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Trump Supporters Are Furious About the Death of Kate Steinle—Here's What Actually Happened

In this day and age in the United States, it takes a tragedy for us to finally discuss the important issues. One such case involved the 2015 death of Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old San Francisco woman who was hit by a .40-caliber bullet fired by Jose Ines Garcia Zarate. Garcia Zarate is a drug offender who was deported from the country five times, and last Thursday, he was acquitted of charges of murder and manslaughter. You can probably guess from there who got angry.
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Florida Brewery Makes an Offer: Shun Nazi Richard Spencer, Get a Free Beer

White supremacist and human punching bag Richard Spencer is giving what will probably be a lovely speech this afternoon on making the country a white ethnostate and whatnot, on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville. While everyone from University President Kent Fuchs and Florida Governor Rick Scott have taken preemptive measures against any possible violence, the university has said that they cannot do anything to stop the actual event, or prevent Spencer from controlling which media outlets cover the speech. Luckily for all, Gainesville brewery Alligator Brewing hatched a scheme to get Spencer talking to empty seats.