… is about Obama’s GOTV rally in Germantown yesterday. “You didn’t elect me to do what was easy. You elected me to do what’s right,” he said. “We need to fight their millions of dollars with our millions of voices. If everybody who fought so hard for change in 2008 show up in 2010, I’m…
… is about yesterday’s Marcellus Shale hearing at Philadelphia City Hall. Here’s the link. A late update: Councilman Curtis Jones and Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds-Brown called on City Council to call for a moratorium on hydraulic fractured — aka “fracking” — until a comprehensive study on the environmental ramifications can be studied. There’s an EPA study…
• Education is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution; the creation of the world’s first system of universal public education—from kindergarten through high school—and of mass higher education is one of the great achievements of American democracy. It embodies a faith in the capabilities of ordinary people that the Founders simply didn’t have. [New Yorker] • The…
Andy Keller set 45,000 plastic bags out across Dilworth Plaza, donned a costume of 500 more and played the role of the Bag Monster outside City Hall on Thursday. The display represents how many bags the typical American uses in a lifetime; the costume was a yearly tally. As Bag Monster (www.bagmonster.com), he encouraged humans…
Though Searle admits, “I don’t think we’ll be able to stop it,” former Pennhurst residents and activists will gather at 10 a.m. Friday at Liberty Resources, 714 Market St., because “abuse, neglect, victimization and inhumane treatment … should never be sensationalized to entertain the public.” Also, here’s yesterday’s City Council fall preview.
Good move handing bin Laden exactly what he wants to say, “See, Christians really are at war with Islam,” Fox News, Tea Party. In short, the proposed community center is not just an issue on which Sarah Palin and Osama bin Laden agree. It is also one in which opponents of the center are playing…
Sorry about not putting one of these clip-recommendation jawns together last week but nothing really rose to the level of me saying to myself, well, not even saying anything to myself, nothing was noticeably good last week in the funnies. So sorry, peers who wrote stories. Bidness. This week’s different, though. Here we go. Finally,…
… are about Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey’s push to de-corrupt his ranks and the never-ending battle over the MOVE 9 (yes, the photo caption got it wrong: The MOVE bombing wasn’t in North Philly; it was on Osage Ave. in West Philly). Extras that didn’t make the paper because of space: From the MOVE…
… is about the seedling legislative push to change how political corruption is addressed in Pennsylvania. Link’s here. Pre-edited-down-for-space draft is here … Using an Independence Hall backdrop yesterday, legislators and activists made known their desire to replace the state Ethics Commission with a new entity with bolstered anti-corruption powers. State Rep. Curt Schroeder (R-…
… can be found here. Or, in abbreviated form, here … A bill that would enable defendants to call for hearings on whether race factored into Death Row sentences reached the state House Judiciary Committee this week. Though odds are against it even reaching a committee vote, sponsor Rep. Rob Matzie is undeterred.
