🪧 How Philly strikers brought attention to child labor

📚 Library Cooling Problems

If you went to your neighborhood’s Free Library branch this summer only to find it closed because of HVAC issues, you’re not alone. Inadequate cooling caused more than a third of Philly’s library branches to close at some point this summer, with some shuttered for weeks at a time. [WHYY]

⛺ Penn Students Return to New Protest Guidelines

After last semester’s Gaza protest encampments, the University of Pennsylvania started reviewing its Guidelines on Open Expression. In the meantime, it’s operating under a new set of temporary rules, which have been condemned by a pro-Palestinian students. [The Daily Pennsylvanian]

🏓🥒 Pick Up a Paddle for Some City Hall Pickleball

CityPickle’s pop-up pickleball courts are returning to Dilworth Park for a second year starting Sept. 9. They’ll cost $40 per hour to reserve. [KYW]

• Looking for a beginner’s guide to pickleball? Last year, the City Cast Philly team set out to learn about the sport, how it works, why it’s become so popular, and where to get started playing in Philly.