END OF THE TAX-ABATEMENT RAINBOW! How Philly Can Survive The Coming Collapse
June 29, 2012 No CommentBY TOM MASSARO/ In the mid-’90s when the 10-year tax abatement was being considered, I kept pointing out one core, glaring fact from the original research by Peter Wiley in his thoughtful advocacy for Center City, one the City Managing Director James S. White also highlighted at that time. Wiley was the initial leader and advocate […]
BY DENISE CLAY/ On Wednesday, I was part of a panel that asked the following question: What can be done to make African Americans here in Philadelphia consider becoming members of the Republican Party? The panel was part of a series that a group of young African American professionals has been doing at Elaina’s Soul […]
BY STATE REP. PAMELA A. DeLISSIO/ Is there a Doctor in the House? And a Nurse Practitioner? And a Pharmacist? And a Physician Assistant? On Jun. 6, the House Health Committee passed HB 1570. This legislation addresses a long-overdue overhaul of the rules and regulations under which hospitals operate. The last time the regulations were […]
MAYOR NUTTER’S health talk in Washington, D.C. was a hit. He has promoted healthy living. It hit me, that old talk, that Nutter might be pushing for a job in the reelected Obama Administration; say the Dept. of HEW?… The Grays Ferry trail link opened. Until connected, links create more difficult police patrol areas like […]
BY JUSTIN NELSON/ To Ms. Denise Clay: What needed to be mentioned in your column last week (“Out & Aboutâ€, May 31) is that today’s generation is filled with everything that is wrong. Many years ago, yet not that far back, everything that was once wrong is now right. Gambling, prostitution, these were “harmless vices†[…]
BY NATHAN SHRADER/ Last week, one faction within the Philadelphia Republican City Committee – including many ward leaders and individuals whom I consider to be personal friends – held an election and claimed the winner is the rightful chairman of the RCC. The current leaders of City Committee will reject this claim as illegitimate, since only […]
BY STATE REP. TONY DeLUCA (D-Allegheny)/ The House of Representatives swore in six new members last week, all elected in special elections held in conjunction with the April primary elections. Four of the six will not serve beyond Nov. 30 of this year because they failed to win their party’s primary election. All six of the […]
OUR OPINION: Spending Money To Make Money
May 4, 2012 Comments Off on OUR OPINION: Spending Money To Make MoneyPhiladelphia’s property-tax collections are a mess. So are its land records. So is its building-code enforcement. So is its bail enforcement. Do we see a pattern here? All these monetary woes stem from two things: vast amounts of data poorly managed, and collaboration between different agencies poorly managed. The resulting losses are staggering: $470 million […]
OUR OPINION: Stop Passing The Buck!
April 12, 2012 Comments Off on OUR OPINION: Stop Passing The Buck!Two good, dedicated firemen died this week battling a fierce, wind-driven multi-alarm fire that should never have been had the City’s Dept. of Licenses & Inspections used common sense. A long-abandoned factory owned by out-of-town investors has been the source of complaints and petitions from worried neighbors. So how long does it take to seal […]
Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell has called City Council’s attention to the role community newspapers play in this city with a resolution which she introduced and which the Council passed. The resolution designated April as Community Weekly Month. In her resolution, Blackwell stated, “Media mergers continue to threaten the integrity of local news coverage … but Philadelphia […]
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