ELEPHANT CORNER: Lost Luggage Finds Its Way To Homeless Vets, Thanks To Toomey
December 6, 2012 1 CommentThis Tuesday, US SEN. PAT TOOMEY held a press conference at the Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center in Northern Liberties. The Center’s Executive Director MARSHA FOUR introduced Toomey. Toomey discussed a bill he had introduced which would require the Transportation Administration to distribute any unclaimed articles at airport-security checkpoints to homeless and needy veterans. […]
BY DENISE CLAY/ If we’ve learned nothing else since 2009, we’ve learned America’s health-care system has a lot of moving parts. We’ve also learned some of those parts don’t move too well or quickly. The city’s health-clinic system is such that a request for something as simple as a physical can take as long as […]
The Holiday Party of the power law firm Elliott Greenleaf drew a capacity crowd to the Union League. The firm consists of power players from both the Democratic and Republican parties from all over the state. Many of them assembled in the Lincoln Room to hobnob with the head honcho, JOHN ELLIOTT. Also on hand […]
BY JOE SHAY STIVALA/ What do you call the investigation of TRAFFIC COURT? I call it a CLASS STRUGGLE. The well-educated with expensive suits and coifed hair, bearing down on the ordinary working folks in the court who may be less educated. It is like they know what is best for us. I never asked […]
You, like I, may have cringed when it was announced that a reality television show, “Parking Warsâ€, was to be filmed in Philadelphia. I have to admit curiosity led me to watch the show a few times. While I did hear some less-than-civil comments from Philadelphia Parking Authority civil servants, the vast majority of the […]
BY DENISE CLAY/ Let’s be honest with ourselves: Until recently, we paid little if any attention to the Philadelphia City Commissioners’ Office. It may have had the colorful Marge Tartaglione at its head and, let’s face it, who doesn’t pay attention to tough chicks with cigarettes hanging from their lips? But the only time the […]
BY FLOYD WEDDERBURN/ When building a new structure ,you start with your foundation. The same rules apply to a football team. The offensive line is the foundation of a football team. You set out to find the best offensive line you can and build around it. These guys have to be smart, fundamentally sound, quick, […]
Yo! Here we go again with this question – what are you thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day? There are lots of people who don’t realize what they have to be thankful for. Most of these things they take for granted and they don’t consider them as important things to be thankful – unless they […]
Last week, COUNCILMAN KENYATTA JOHNSON sought the approval of City Council for his proposal that the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority build affordable housing in Point Breeze. In order to execute Johnson’s plan, the City, through its power of eminent domain, will need to force private homeowners and developers to sell two-thirds of properties designated for the […]
BY JOE SHAY STIVALA/ Can you make sense of the commotion from City Hall over the Casino proposal advanced by Congressman BOB BRADY? This is a good deal. The City contributes the land, no money, and owns two-thirds of the casino. BETTER than bank interest. The daily press reported the problem was the Mayor was […]
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