The Philadelphia Traffic Court has forever been known as the “People’s Court”. That is because the people are not at the mercy of lawyers when they come before it and can communicate their need to insure a fair hearing without having to pay a hefty price for representation. True, sometimes they’ve gone to their elected [...]
COUNCILWOMAN Marian TASCO fought hard, in the runup to the presidential election, to get voter-ID ads removed – meeting stiff resistance. In the end, subliminal and overt suggestions that you would need voter ID, lost…. BLACK CAUCUS, Black Clergy, NAACP and others want the huge amount of provisional ballots counted. Voters too want to make [...]
BY JOE EASTMAN, US Navy (Ret.) Dir. of Veterans Services Broad Street Ministry/ Last spring, Philadelphia City Council, spearheaded by Councilmen Bill Greenlee and Mark Squilla, honored the military veterans of Philadelphia by declaring November as Philadelphia Homeless Veterans Remembrance Month, thus making Philadelphia the first and only city in the United States to set [...]
ELEPHANT CORNER: Republicans Push To Get Eyes Inside Philly Polling Stations
November 8, 2012 No Comment
Tuesday night, over 200 people were packed into the second floor of Paddy Whacks at 2nd & South Streets to watch the election returns. Unfortunately, as the night wore on, the Republican crowd increasingly turned to drowning their sorrows. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA won the Electoral College solidly, but his share of the popular vote was [...]
BY DENISE CLAY/ Well, thank goodness that’s over. The long, WWE Rage in the Cage match that was the 2012 Presidential Elections ended Tuesday night. Thankfully… There’s a lot of things I won’t miss about this year’s elections, and I’m a political junkie. Hopefully, it’ll be a while before we get anymore of the following: [...]
Power attorney and future judge JIM CRUMLISH III demonstrated his international connections on Election Day. He escorted a delegation of European Parliament members to observe the election process. Among them were LORD ALFRED DUBS of the House of Lords in Great Britain, HUGUES HILTPOLD and TROND HELLELAND from Switzerland and Norway respectively. The Europeans were [...]
As I write this column during Hurricane SANDY, I think of Romney’s joke at the GOP Convention where he said Obama was worried about the ocean’s rising…. HOW ABOUT those anti-BOB CASEY ads for Senate? One says Casey NEVER PASSED a bill. ??? He introduced bills. He cannot “pass” bills on his own. Another said [...]
You do and we do and all Philadelphians do! No matter how slow or how busy the play, we will all share in a reduction of property taxes which are sure to rise dramatically by this time next year. That’s why State Rep. Rosita Youngblood fought hard to retrieve the ball from others and throw [...]
Both community development corporations and charter schools share the same responsibilities to their shared constituency: the taxpayers. Biggest reason is they get most of their funding courtesy of what the government spends out of the taxes it receives. Our Southwest Community Development Corp. report this week highlights the chronic failure of close-knit groups, which are [...]
BY BRETT MANDEL/ With the Actual Value Initiative pushed back until 2013, we can take our time to make real-estate assessments fair and accurate in a careful and considered manner. Happily, we already have an action plan and we can make it work without taxing Philadelphians out of their homes. After years of debate, there [...]
