“Nobody appears to be upset about it. The community is not rallying to say ‘We can’t tolerate this.’ The only people who can stop the crime is people in the community where it’s happening, where they live,” Street said. “This has absolutely nothing to do with . A lot of the crime is going...
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… but a Philly.com commenter apparently does …
… unless CleanupPhilly is referring to another similarly named local writer who got hit-and-ran about whom I’ve never heard.
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Verbatim from the Independence Hall Tea Party Association’s release:
Tea Party Group Deplores Tactics of Occupy Wall Street; Challenges Occupy Philadelphia to Consider Rights of Others
Philadelphia, PA (October 5, 2011) — The Independence Hall Tea Party Association, a group dedicated to free enterprise and respect for the U.S. Constitution, announced today that while it supports...
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Naughty, naughty Philadelphia City Council. (Brought to you by the same people who did this masterpiece from the Republican mayoral primary). Here’s Untermeyer’s Committee of Seventy profile, too.
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Here’s some pre-camera conversation between Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, City Councilman Curtis Jones and others talking before they went before the 6 p.m. cameras to talk storm-cleanup.
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Diop Olugbala, aka Wali Rahman, aka “Independent Mayoral Candidate,” will hold a press conference “to respond to Mayor Nutter’s announced escalation of aggressive police action targeting black youth, including 9pm curfews with threats of fines and jail time for youth and parents.” It’s tomorrow at 1 p.m.
I’ve covered Diop before, when he was on...
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From Monday night’s Colbert Report
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Earlier this month, Republican nominee for Philadelphia mayor Karen Brown told me she went to D.C. to meet with Pa. officials and “discuss her ‘vision paper,’ a work that’s still in progress about breaking the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers union.”
Here’s the story I wrote about it:
Republican mayoral candidate Karen Brown wants to dismantle...
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A few weeks back, I grabbed lunch with Ben Mannes, an affable guy who wanted to talk about his group’s Citywide Forum on Public Integrity. Expected to speak are 1st Deputy City Controller Harvey Rice, Special Agent John Roberts of the local FBI public-corruption squad and Patrick Blessington, former head of the Attorney...
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