Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Responds to Offensive Date-Rape Ad
By now, you’ve probably seen the controversial Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board ads. You know, the ones that feature photos of what appear to be a young girl’s legs splayed on a tiled bathroom floor with underwear around her ankles. The ads send the message that women are not only at fault for getting themselves raped—a societal bias reflected in and...
Continue ReadingSome Landlords No Longer Oppose Lead Poisoning Bill
A compromise was reached between those City Council members pushing for the lead poisoning bill and members of the Homeowners Association of Philadelphia, which HAPCO considers fair and have decided to no longer oppose the bill — even if they’re not happy with it. “It’s an amendment the Department of Health can live with,” says Alan Krigman...
Continue ReadingFossil Fuels Cost PA $2.9 Billion in Subsidies, Study Finds
A researcher from PennFuture Energy Center did a little digging and found that Pennsylvania subsidizes fossil fuels at a cost of nearly $3 billion per year, according to a report released yesterday. If $3 billion seems like a lot, it is. While education and public welfare offices suffer budget cuts, the oil, gas and coal industry enjoy tax exemptions, incentives,...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: DA Williams to Address Future of Mumia Abu-Jamal Today? (Updated)
DA Seth Williams is expected to hold a press conference regarding the future of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal today. Last night, a federal judge ordered the state to take action (conduct a new sentencing hearing on the case, seek the death penalty again or order Jamal to life in prison). Williams will answer and Daniel Faulkner’s (who Jamal killed) widow,...
Continue ReadingResearchers Find State Budget Cuts Hurt Economy, While Lawmakers Enjoy a Raise
A study released by researchers at the Keystone Research Center last week shows that public sector job losses and budget cuts have hurt the economy, and resulted in actual jobs decline in the state. Meanwhile, Corbett and legislators enjoyed themselves a raise. Mark Price, the author of the study “Public-sector Job Losses Put Brakes on Pennsylvania’s Recovery,”...
Continue ReadingUnhappy Members of Occupy Philly Form Splinter Group Called Reasonable Solutions; Launch Party in Center City Today
As of tomorrow, there will be two Occupy groups occupying Philadelphia—just not together. The new group, calling themselves Reasonable Solutions/Occupy Wall Street Philadelphia, are throwing a launch party today (Sat., Dec. 3) from 12–5 p.m. at Thomas Paine Plaza, across from City Hall. “Occupy Philly has grown. In just over a month and a half, we have ...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: ‘Bounce TV’—Aimed at Black Audiences—Comes to Philly
Atlanta, Georgia-based Bounce TV, a station geared toward black audiences, of which Martin Luther King III is an executive, has landed in Philly. In this press release of an article at the Huffington Post via the Associated Press, it’s said that the network (not cable) station was basically demanded since, “According to Nielsen’s latest annual television...
Continue Reading51 of 52 Occupiers Released From Jail After Wednesday Morning Arrests
This morning, someone posted to Occupy Philly’s Facebook page, “OP needs to advise its arrested participants to spread the word in jail when they’re arrested. Let’s get THAT 1% of the population on our side! Imagine if the cops were afraid to arrest us because we’d be spreading the message wherever we were.” And that seems to have been...
Continue ReadingSenate Passes Unemployment Bill To Pay Down Federal Debt
As Pennsylvania’s unemployment hits 8.1 percent, lawmakers are trying to figure out how to get the state Unemployment Compensation (UC) fund out of a very deep hole. The Senate passed a bill that would authorize the Department of Labor and Commerce to borrow up to $3.5 billion from a private bank at a lower interest rate than what it borrowed from the federal...
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