DAILY GRINDER: Priest Abuse Cases, School Control, Funds, Minimum Wage
Things got out of hand at Rev. Brennan’s sex abuse hearing on Friday, in which it was announced that his lawyer, Richard DeSipio, might be unqualified to serve the defendant. Turns out, DeSipio “may possess factual knowledge about abuse that occurred,” because he was a seminarian under Dean Monsignor William Lynn at one point. The lawyer then referred to...
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Union To Protest Against Art Museum Funding
On April 11, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will request $2.4 million in city funds for ongoing security at the Parkway endzone. They’ll do so before City Council at 12:45 pm and will be met by a mass protest organized by the Philadelphia Security Officers Union. For over a year now, the union has been fighting with the subcontracted security company AlliedBarton,...
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Holy Finance: A Church’s Price Tag
These Lasalle High School students pass out meals for the homeless outside of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter & Paul. For the first time since the recent Philadelphia grand jury report and removal of more than a dozen priests for sexual abuse allegations, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Thursday that they will not “derail” their...
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‘Maury’ Donates To Penn Journalism Program. Wait, what?
Maury Povich, of “The Maury Show” fame, has donated $1 million to the University of Pennsylvania. His reason: The establishment of the Povich Fund for Journalism Programs. The program and donations will mostly go toward workshops and seminars at the Kelly Writer’s House. Good for him, good for Penn, we guess? Is Maury Povich a journalist? Was he, even,...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: More Green Guilt
Philadelphia City Council supported a resolution that calls for renewing Growing Greener – a funding source to preserve “open space and farmland, protect water quality, provide parks and recreation,” etc. The resolution, though worthless (the Growing Greener Fund is going to dry up unless renewed by Governor Tom Corbett, and, c’mon) was applauded by,...
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Home Foreclosure Protest At City Hall/HUD Today
The Philadelphia Unemployment Project and the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign organized a rally for those facing foreclosure outside City Hall at noon today. They were joined by Councilpersons Curtis Jones, Jannie Blackwell, Frank Rizzo and Maria Quinones-Sanchez, who were fresh from a unanimous-but-non-binding vote to further delay sheriff’s...
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Does Santorum Approve of Obama’s Libyan Adventure? Hint: No
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum dropped by that Piers Morgan CNN show the other night to talk all about President Obama’s overall terribleness on the Libya, um, bombing campaign? Invasion? Fiasco? Step toward world government? We don’t know. But when asked “why President Obama failed” (oh, we forgot to mention that Obama has already failed;...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Rendell’s Many Hats
Loopholes are there for a reason: To find a legal way around the system. And on that note, all challenges to get “DROP candidates” — Rizzo, Tartaglione, Tasco – off the ballots have failed. Yeah, it sucks, but here’s the good news: It’s up to you now. [Newsworks] Former Governor Ed Rendell will be on ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ tomorrow...
Continue ReadingJamie Foxx Gives Shout Out To M. Nutt
When Jamie Foxx worked on what should have been Oscar-winning motion picture Law Abiding Citizen (seriously), he got to share – as we counted it – two scenes with Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. M. Nutt, of course, played the Deputy Mayor and looked kinda funny doing it. Fox News caught up with Foxx on the set of some new movie in a really warm place and...
Continue ReadingPhilly: Stop and Frisk? OK!
A new Pew research poll finds that a huge majority of Philadelphians support Mayor Michael Nutter’s stop-and-frisk policy. A bigger majority support police, in general. Here’s the initial breakdown of results: • 61 percent of Philadelphians, in total, support stop-and-frisk. • 29 percent disapprove. • Only 43 percent of those polled...
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