BY JOE SHAHEELI/ The Committee of 70 is among the better-funded nonprofits in this city. Once a good-government workhorse devoted only to helping keep elections clean, it has since grown to become the propaganda force for those who stand to gain from reorganizing City government. Now it is focused on ending the existence of...
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LONG-AWAITED restoration of Robin Hood Dell was inaugurated Tuesday night by Mayor Michael Nutter and a host of dignitaries. Among civic leaders who helped pull together $5 million rehab of Dell Music Center were labor leader Sam Staten, Jr., Councilmen Bill Green and Curtis Jones, Jr., and State Rep. Ron Waters. Other Council Members Jannie...
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State Rep. Ronald G. Waters is backing a bill that would allow nonviolent offenders and offenders with short minimum sentences to serve their time in community corrections centers rather than State correctional facilities. Waters, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said SB 1161 would not pose a public safety risk. “Many times those who are...
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At a banquet thrown last month in the Convention Center to thank those who had backed his run for Governor in the May p Primary, State Sen. Anthony Williams, right, was congratulated by his colleague Mike Stack for an excellent campaign. Turning out for the banquet was a Who’s Who of city Democrat leaders,...
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Of late, self-styled “reformers” in Philadelphia have developed the odd conviction that elections are equivalent to corruption. For every flaw in our City’s creaky governmental machinery – and Lord knows it has its share – they come up with the same simple answer: Get the politics out of it. Insulate the people who make...
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BY LEN LEAR/ I thought maybe I needed a new eyeglass prescription when I checked out the website for the new restaurant called Cooperage: A Wine & Whiskey Bar, located in the Curtis Center, 7th & Sansom Streets. (I have seen its address listed in two local newspapers as 601 Walnut Street, but that’s...
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