Obama Rips GOP, Fires Up Crowd At Rally In Germantown
With an approval rating hovering in the high 40s, one might say that it’s been a rough couple of years for President Obama. However, it was like 2008 all over again yesterday in this solidly democratic corner of the state, where Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were greeted with a hero’s welcome at Germantown High School as they fired shots at the...
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Toomey: Wall Street-alize Your Social Security, Or, Go Ahead, Call It Privatization
Over the past two-and-a-half years, it’s been tough to figure out what’s socialism and what’s, um, not. For instance, the $700 billion Wall Street bailout before the election, that was capitalism. But the $75 billion Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan which led Rick Santelli of CNBC to call underwater homeowners “losers” and begin the Tea Party...
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Chinatown Designated a Historical Site
The drums banged, children sang and the lion dancers preened as Philadelphia’s Chinatown was officially designated with a historical marker from the Philadelphia Historical and Museum Commission this afternoon on 9th and Race St. Mayor Nutter and Councilman Frank DiCicco were in attendance and both spoke glowingly about how integral Chinatown has been in...
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Get Your Drink On: Yards Beer To Expand
There’s a nice piece in today’s Philadelphia Business Journal about Yards Beer and owner Tom Kehoe. Turns out you, my friend, are about to get more Yards. According to PBJ, 2010 sales are “expected to top $3 million, up from $2.2 million last year and nearly double sales of 2007.” That’s good news for Tom and good news for you. Because now the local...
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Two Cops Busted For Drug Theft Weren’t Even Targets Of Sting
Here’s one of those things: You know those two police officers – Sean Alivera, 31, and Christopher Luciano, 23 – of whom Aaron Kase blogged the other day, saying they “were arrested…for allegedly stealing three grand and 20 pounds of weed from a North Philly drug dealer” who happened to be a cop? Yeah, Alivera and Luciano weren’t the targets of...
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Council Amends Business Privilege Tax
Today’s City Council meeting on the Business Privilege Tax was short, sweet and productive. No, that is not a punchline, they actually accomplished something in an efficient manner. The tax credit program needed some tweaking, and so tweak it they did. For those unfamiliar with the program, it is a very beneficial tax credit program that provides funding...
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Virginia Cody: The Gas Candidate
Don’t look now Corbett and Onorato, but one of those pesky third party candidates is looking to snipe some votes on election day. Meet Virginia Cody, a retired Air Force officer and write-in candidate for governor. Cody is best known as the “gas activist“, who mistakenly received a bulletin from the state Department of Homeland Security describing...
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TESTIFY: M. Nutt’s In Harrisburg To Reform PHA
Mayor Michael Nutter is in Harrisburg today to testify before the Pennsylvania House Urban Affairs Committee. His goal: Getting that whole Housing Authorities Act of 1937 – which makes him “the only mayor in the Commonwealth who does not appoint all or control a majority of appointments to the local housing board” and forces the Mayor to get court approval...
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M. Nutt: Why Are The Phillies On At 5PM?
Well before yesterday’s Halladay no-hitter, Mayor Michael Nutter had some choice words for Major League Baseball – and it’s the first thing he’s said in months that people may actually agree with! “I don’t know if [MLB Commissioner Bud Selig] personally picks the start times for the teams. But it is, quite frankly, just irritating that the best team...
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Nutter Raises Rainbow Flag at City Hall for LGBT History Month (Video)
Around four p.m. Wednesday afternoon, a group of guys carrying skateboards walked past a rainbow flag flying outside City Hall. “That looks gay,” one of them said. He was right. Had the skaters been there two hours earlier, they would have seen hundreds of people cheering and singing as the flag was raised in honor of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender...
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