A gang of mavericks assembled for the annual 56th Ward Picnic at Burholme Park. WARD LEADER JOHN SABATINA has been hosting the event for decades and always draws a great crowd of politicos. This year was no exception as mayoral wannabes COUNCILMAN BILL GREEN and STATE SEN. ANTHONY WILLIAMS competed for having most handshakes with […]
It’s refreshing to see a leader in this city act as a leader should, making decisions on the spot. That leader is City Council President Darrell Clarke! When he was faced with the fact two of his staff had violated City Council rules and his trust as well, he terminated them. It was the obvious […]
BY STATE REP. RON WATERS/ The moral outrage and national embarrassment over Pennsylvania’s strictest-in-the-nation voter-identification law are well-deserved. But what’s most disturbing about this law is the fact it’s a blatant abuse of power by the controlling party in Harrisburg – the Republicans – for purely partisan political gain. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is hearing arguments […]
BY BILL GAULT, President, IAFF Local 22/ Mayor Michael Nutter didn’t attend Philadelphia’s 2012 Labor Day Parade. That’s not surprising. When it comes to dealing fairly with labor’s many legitimate issues, Nutter has been absent since the outset of his administration. Fire Fighters’ & Paramedics’ Local 22 and the Nutter Administration started the bargaining process for […]
BY FRANCIS HALBHERR, President, AFSCME Local 1637/ Recent columns, articles and editorials criticizing parking-enforcement officers employed by the Philadelphia Parking Authority unfairly mischaracterize these individuals and distort the work they do and the manner in which the vast majority of these hardworking men and women perform their duties. There are several hundred parking-enforcement officers who issue […]
Some voters may be turned away from the polls this November, but Philadelphia Democratic Chairman CONGRESSMAN BOB BRADY is fighting to make sure everyone can vote. Especially seniors, the disabled and minorities that have been targeted for surgical voting roadblocks by the new Republican voter-ID Law. The voter-ID law was concocted by GOV. TOM CORBETT […]
A Mighty Demonstration Unprecedented! A classic! An event long to be remembered! There are more accolades that can be added, but pictures do more to tell the story of what took place at Eakins Oval on the Parkway under the shadow of the Art Museum last Saturday as 44,000 union members gathered to demonstrate their […]
The proposal to establish a “land bank†for Philadelphia is the best idea in a long time for one of the most-pressing problems facing this city: blighted and abandoned real estate. The problem is so large, no one has even been able to measure it yet. But it is believed there are about 40,000 parcels […]
When we last left the characters in the drama known as Pennsylvania’s voter-ID law, all of the interested parties were headed to Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg to have their say on the measure that requires all voters to have a picture ID in order to make their voices heard at the polls on Election Day. […]
Our page-one illustration and the story explaining it on page two leads us to one question: Who is responsible for making sure Philadelphians, diligently involved in recycling, are aware of the rewards program? So few conscientious recyclers are even aware a rewards program exists, let alone how to apply for it. And, we ask, if […]
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