Day 1: Liquor Store Union Getting Ready For Fight With Corbett
Unionized Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board employees are wasting no time. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PLCB employees met at four Western Pennsylvania hotels Monday to discuss their strategy going forward to stop Governor Tom Corbett’s publicized plan to dismantle PA’s liquor sales operation. They’ve already been making the rounds, locally...
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Corbett Sworn In
Are the evangelists predicting the end of the world in 2011, and profiled in the Inky the other day, correct? How else to explain today’s events which culminated in Tom Corbett being sworn in as your governor? (We kid!) Last night, no one knew if now-Governor Corbett’s Inauguration Ceremony was going to take place outside, due to weather. According to...
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Could Recycling Be History?
With all the talk about cutting the budget over the next four years, few have been talking about the exceptional mandated recycling programs in local communities across the state. One look at PhiladelphiaRecyclingPays.com, with all the points and rewards and what have you makes one think we’ve got a good thing here, right? Maybe. We got a little wary after...
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DAILY GRINDER: Happy New Year! Here’s What To Look Forward To in 2011
Governor Ed Rendell approved $100 million for more than 40 infrastructure and other projects in Philadelphia as a parting gift to the city whose football team he loves so. All the money’s being taken from the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program and recipients “must submit [final paperwork] by January 14, 2011,” a mere four days before Governor-Elect...
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Wine Kiosks Closed: The First Shot?
So, the Liquor Control Board has “temporarily” closed its grocery store wine kiosks, which exist as something of a loophole in Pennsylvania weird commonwealth Quaker laws. And they’ve done so in the shadow of Tom Corbett’s administration quickly eclipsing what hope they had left of keeping liquor stores closed on Sundays, not past a certain time, and...
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DAILY GRINDER: South Philly High Agreement, Liquor Stores, Duck Boats, Judicial Hellholes
It’s a year later. The U.S. Justice Department has gone through what went on at South Philly High a year ago and they, like everyone else, don’t like what they saw. They’ve made an agreement with the School District of Philadelphia requiring the district to “hire a consultant focused on preventing harassment and discrimination, will serve as a nationwide...
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DAILY GRINDER: Things We Knew But Are Sad To See In Print
Cue the outrage: Michael Vick admitted he’d still be dogfighting if he hadn’t been caught. Good thing he was caught? [Philly.com] Tom Corbett is going to overturn Governor Ed Rendell’s moratorium on drilling. “These people bought these leases with an expectation of being able to drill as long as they adequately presented papers to get their permits, and...
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What You Elected: Corbett and Toomey Gather Their Squads
The Associated Press is reporting citizen advocates are “criticizing” Corbett’s 400-person transition team, which features a who’s who of lobbyists, bank executives, large insurance reps, gas drilling reps and all around dirt. Here’s just an example of what we’re in store for: For example, a registered lobbyist on the energy and environment committee...
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DAILY GRINDER: Santorum To Again Argue For Theocracy
So, Rick Santorum used to have this speech. The media calls it his “faith speech.” He calls it “A Charge to Revive the Role of Faith in the Public Square” and likes to say it’s his retort to John F. Kennedy’s September 12, 1960 speech in Houston, Texas to Protestant ministers, in which he explained his Catholic faith and how, though strong,...
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Daily Grinder: McFadden’s May Be Douchier Than Originally Thought
Since Governor Ed Rendell spied on you while you slept using a U.S.-Israeli terrorism company, the ACLU is trying to make sure Governor-Elect Corbett won’t do the same thing. His response: C’mon! Trust me! i.e. “I don’t see (issuing) a whole lot of executive orders unless they are absolutely necessary,” Corbett said. “I don’t think you...
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