Ride The Ducks-1,000
Are you one of those people who love quietly laying on the grass behind the Art Museum on a sunny day? Tossing a Frisbee? Taking walks around the Water Works, along the Kelly Drive bike path? Or maybe hanging with your “lovey” on one of the many area gazebos? Nice, right? Too bad! The ducks are still alive! They’re coming! Screaming children! Quacking whistles!...
Continue ReadingGood: Project HOME Building Housing For Homeless Vets
In spite of Bill O’Reilly’s rhetoric, homeless veterans exist, they’re in our backyards and Project HOME and the city of Philadelphia are doing something about it. Thanks to some stimulus cash, Project HOME and the city are renovating a 54-unit apartment building in Tioga specifically for homeless veterans. It’s at 2101 W. Verango Street. And Your Nutt’s...
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Owe Taxes? Nutter’s Coming!
Don’t call it a movement. But if you owe back taxes, like Philly Car Share (hat tip: anonymous commenter), Mayor Michael Nutter would like a word with you. Actually, he’d like to hold a press conference outside your place of business, such as he did yesterday, outside a podiatrist’s office on Bustleton Avenue. He claimed the doctor owed $114,000 in outstanding...
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City Unions Protest Nutter Outside Convention Center (VIDEO)
Traffic was clogged on Arch Street yesterday and it wasn’t just because the president was in town. Spurred by President Obama’s visit to raise money for Senate candidate Joe Sestek, members of AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47 gathered for a good old-fashioned protest outside the Convention Center yesterday afternoon. A hundred or so members of the...
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Just In Case You Need Another Dose Of PHA Grief…
According to an expose in the Inky yesterday (and as found by the mayor’s staff), this is how normal(er) cities’ Housing Authorities work: In New York, the mayor appoints all three housing commissioners, and the chairman of the housing agency reports directly to the mayor. In Boston, the administrator of the housing authority reports directly to the mayor....
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Today in Head-to-Wall Slamming: City Council Rehires ‘Budget Guru’
Remember this? It was just yesterday: It’s the right thing to do. And every now and then – every now and then – in this business, we were elected by the people, we work for the people, we’re supposed to take action that is in the best interest of the citizens of this city. That was Mayor Michael Nutter, telling us “how” he was going to eliminate...
Continue ReadingWatch: City Council Back To Take On DROP?
And….they’re back. City lawmakers open their fall session today and the first issue up on the chopping block (or, rather, something they’re going to pretend to want to get rid of, maybe) is the vampirical taxpayer bloodmoney bank that is DROP. Mayor Michael Nutter seems to be all about getting rid of program, which started in 1999. Aaron Kase, if you will,...
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Tom Knox To Join List of Candidates Who Will Lose To Nutter in Dem Primary?
Remember Tom Knox? He’s the guy who flushed $12 million of his own money down the toilet in 2007, coming in second place in the 5-way Democratic primary. Not ringing any bells? His campaign also put doorknob hangers around town a week before said primary, which claimed then-Councilman Michael Nutter was part of City Hall’s culture of corruption, i.e....
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Slick Willie in West Philly
By Daniel Denvir Bill Clinton joined Pa. governor candidate Dan Onorato and 500 neighborhood residents and union members at a West Philly rally this afternoon. The Allegheny County executive faces a tough fight against Republican Attorney General Tom Corbett. Here’s hoping some of Clinton’s political pixie dust will rub off. Bill Clinton uses his popularity...
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It Begins: Street Did Some Weird Stuff At PHA, Too
All you need to know is that the Inky is writing about former Mayor John Street the same way they began writing about Philadelphia Housing Authority head Carl Greene. Calm, but icy. They’re just saying – for now – that the former mayor, as chairman of the PHA board, “insisted that the agency hire [a female] aide who reported directly to him instead of...
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