Updated: Ramsey’s Chi-Town Move Looking More Likely
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey may have a move back to the Windy City in his sights. The Chicago Sun-Times is disclosing today that Philly’s top cop has already met with world-famous disaster exploiter and new Mayor Rahm Emanuel and there’s more sit-downs to come. They had a good conversation and Ramsey openly likes the idea of heading back to the city...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: ‘Gasland’ No Longer Hitler’s Entertainment
Teddy Borawski, the state geologist who compared ‘Gasland’ filmmaker Josh Fox to a Nazi has apologized. Governor Tom Corbett called Borawski’s comments – “Joseph Goebbels would have been proud. He would have given [Fox] the Nazi award” – inappropriate, and not just because, as we’ve said, the Nazi Award isn’t real. Gasland is currently playing...
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Schuylkill River Trail (To The Extreme)
Mayor Nutter today announced the groundbreaking of a new portion of the Schuylkill River Trail. He and a few cohorts brought their taxpayer-funded, unused shovels to Kelly Drive today, boasting a $1.1 million project which will result in a wider path and water retaining wall between Falls Bridge and Ridge Avenue. It’s expected to be completed in June. In...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Amends, Threats, Sales, Lies…
Police commissioner Ramsey suspended 54-year-old Police veteran John King for assault, terroristic threats and intimidation charges related to a disturbance at Mercy Hospital in October 2009. [Some news release] Amends: Nutter meets Wednesday with city LGBT leaders to discuss the Boy Scout building sale. [Philly.com] Governor Tom Corbett releases his first...
Continue ReadingCouncil’s DROP Study Released With No Surprises
It’s official. DROP is nothing to worry about! Nothing, Council says! Bolton Partners, City Council’s consultant on the matter, released their report on the city’s Deferred Retirement Option Plan and found exactly what they said they’d find: The entire cost is $100 million and “substantially less than the $258 million price tag put on the plan last...
Continue ReadingTomorrow’s Festivities: Knox and DROP
You’re likely to wake up tomorrow to Snowmare on Snow Street 3: New Snow. That’s too bad, but fear not: certain things are happening in the general vicinity of City Hall that’ll make you forget all about digging your car out with an ice scraper. Find them below. Tom Knox The Philly business guy who put door hangers on your knob proclaiming now-Mayor...
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Nutter Pens Gun-Based Op/Ed For National Mag
In spite of meaningless polls repeating meaningless stats about meaningless circumstances, Mayor Michael Nutter has been plowing through the zero competition he’s got for his re-election bid thus far. He’s picked up the nervous endorsement of State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams and now he’s become a regular Maureen Dowd, writing op/eds for U.S. News and...
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Anthony Hardy Williams Endorses Nutter
And that was that. Mayor Michael Nutter and State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams spoke together outside a West Philly charter school this morning, where Williams gave the mayor his full Valentine’s Day endorsement for re- election. They also hugged it out, which was nice! “There’s another four years in which hopefully this gentleman will have the benefit of...
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Poll About Philadelphia Mayoral Race Tells Everyone a Bunch of Nothing
Read from a variety of in and out-of-city sources today and you’re likely to find out that Philadelphia has basically forced Mayor Michael Nutter to pull a Hosni Mubarak Nixon and resign – tonight! – before he even has the chance to run again. M. Nutt gets mixed results in a Franklin and Marshall poll! He’s vulnerable! The horror! Save me Jebus! Here’s...
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