BY JOE SHAHEELI This is the offest of off-year elections. The average voter (aka “the average human being”) has few interests that they are aware of at stake on the November ballot in Philadelphia in 2021. Many electoral decisions are, in fact, sure to affect their everyday lives in profound ways to come, but few […]
Philadelphia Democratic Party’s fall get-together at Sheet Metal Workers Hall on Columbus Boulevard is the annual effort to rouse its activists to turn out Pennsylvania’s largest pool of D voters. All eyes were on Nov. 2 last Monday, with their focus on judicial races both local and statewide. Send article as PDF
The Philadelphia 2021 Columbus Day Parade got underway from Snyder Avenue and marched on Broad Street to the Oregon Avenue Italian Festival in Marconi Park. The Columbus Statue was still boxed as Commonwealth Court ruled that it could not be unboxed until after the parade. Photos by Joe Shay Stivala Send article as PDF […]
The annual Northeast Democrats’ annual picnic salute to Democratic Committeepersons was again held in Burholme Park and attended to capacity. Wards 35, 42, 53,54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 63, 64, 65 and 66 were in attendance. The event is a combined free “thank you and salute” to the hard work and long hours of […]
Question: Do both spouses have to file for bankruptcy? Married couples can file together in a joint bankruptcy that combines both spouses’ debts and property into the same case. The overall goal is to discharge your debt and keep more of your property. In most cases, filing together will allow you to accomplish this. When […]
Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson introduced legislation to help prevent tangled titles in Philadelphia. The Tangled Title Disclosure Bill requires funeral homes to share information, provided in partnership by the Department of Records and Register of Wills, about probating estates and avoiding tangled titles when they provide a death certificate. According to recent research from Pew, […]
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