Sen. Pat Toomey Offers His Own Budget Tomorrow
Here comes something: Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey’s FY 2012 budget. According to an email from the campaign, he’s set to unveil his diabolical plan tomorrow and according to reports the Internet over, it’s not going to be one of these “touchy feely” fiscal budgets you’re so used to. Elite Washington web rag The Hill says Toomey’s budget will...
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The Fun Of Sitting Through A Budget Hearing For A Day
Since late March and until early May, City Council has been sifting through Mayor Michael Nutter’s proposed budget in a six-week process called budget hearings. They’re attempting to comprehensively scrutinize and improve the budget for the city’s best interests, and the public is invited to come along to help them. After-all, the city’s...
Continue ReadingDAILY 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...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: New Black Panthers Off The Hook?
It’s been about a year since someone died on a SEPTA bus. This time, the bus stopped and paramedics were on the scene. It appears to be of natural causes. [Daily News] Everyone, including Republicans, hate Tom Corbett’s budget. Seventy-eight percent of Pennsylvanians don’t like his crippling education cuts. So what’s he say? “The final number of...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Ramsey’s ‘Great Strengths’
Former Mayor John Street is under investigation for funneling all that money to a law firm that employed his son. We always knew it was heading this way, didn’t we? [Inky] Our state legislature’s budget remains near the highest in the nation, though some lawmakers are now asking for their own pay to be cut. [Citizens Voice] Rahm Emanuel is using that Chicago...
Continue ReadingOn Welfare? How About a Drug Test?
A Central PA lawmaker thinks it’s about time supposed welfare kings and queens start getting drug tested because, c’mon. State Senator Richard Alloway introduced a bill to the state legislature which would require five percent of welfare and other cash recipients to take a drug test every six months. If you fail, you’re put into a rehab facility until,...
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The Corbett Budget of Reckoning
Were you as afraid as we were when Governor Tom Corbett made those strange analogies toward the beginning of his budget address? “In many ways what we need to do is the same as reviving an abandoned apple tree. If the tree isn’t tended and the branches pruned, that tree will grow into a tangle of limbs and leaves. But it will bear no fruit. We need to...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Budget Today
Democratic City Committee deal broker and sometimes-Congressman Bob Brady brokered the deal for DiCicco to step out of the race for First District Council and back Mark Squilla. [Daily News] Another man has come forward, accusing a priest from the Philadelphia Archdiocese of rape and torture. His lawsuit alleges “Archdiocese officials conspired to endanger...
Continue ReadingBeyond Budget Week: The City Hall Catto Statue
Councilman James Kenney is still looking through Mayor Michael Nutter’s new budget for the statue money. (It’s gotta be in there somewhere…) Nah, we kid. As a general rule we can’t make too much fun of Council when the intentions are good. But this seems like a strange time to bring this back up: The week M. Nutt announces his optimistically nervous budget,...
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The Phlog: Nutter Proposes Budget
Mayor Michael Nutter, with his budget in hand, moments before walking into Chambers at City Hall today to propose his financial plan for the city for the next fiscal year (Photo: Matt Petrillo). Outside of City Hall today, a citizen asked a city custodian where the Municipal Services building is located. After she pointed him to the right direction, he told...
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