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At long last, the City Council has passed its land bank bill, making it the largest city in the country to have a land bank. […]
After two years of crafting a land bank bill that would streamline the messy, maddening process of buying land from the city, Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sanchez’s […]
City Council President Darrell Clarke is floating a plan to take care of rehabilitating LOVE Park the same way the city is going about rehabilitating […]
It’s 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, and my boyfriend and I are driving toward the Philadelphia skyline. We’ve had a lovely evening visiting friends […]
The Daily News reports that at-large City Councilman Bill Green is trying to sell Republicans in Harrisburg on his candidacy to lead the School Reform Commission, […]
In a forward-thinking move, Philly FIGHT and city councilwomen Maria Quinones-Sanchez and Marian Tasco announced at a press conference this morning the development of a […]
We’d already told you that City Council had passed a resolution calling for Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to be included […]
It’s easy to dismiss Council resolutions as meaningless, mostly riskless displays of showmanship, and most of the time they are. But the rationale behind the […]
Last night, a source told me that Paul Steinke was seriously considering a run for City Council in 2015. This morning, when I called the […]
The debate surrounding the two competing methods for raising funds for city schools has been unexpectedly wonkish for City Hall. Nutter advocates the borrowing of […]
City Council and the Nutter administration are still haggling over how to begin to hire back the thousands of teachers and staff members that were […]
Old people! Why are you always ruining everything? Starting tomorrow, Philadelphia’s trash-infested streets are about to get more trash-infested. Right now, the Streets Department will […]
Legendary former City Councilwoman Joan Krajewski passed away at 79 early this morning. She had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and was using […]
When Vince Fumo was hauled off to a Kentucky prison, there were murmurs that one day we might miss him. And now, we do. It’s […]
NBC 10 reports on a study from mobile security firm Lockout, which re-affirms that Philadelphia is just a lousy place to hang onto your smartphone. […]