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Property

Which Neighborhood Has the Most Deadbeat Landlords?

Philly has 10 City Council districts, and according to data analysis by NewsWorks, one of them leads the rest in property tax delinquencies. But it’s […]

City Life

Which Philly Neighborhoods Aren’t Paying Their Taxes?

Newsworks has crunched numbers on which council districts have the highest rates of tax delinquency. (The whole city, as Patrick Kerkstra has found, is basically […]

Property

City: Fine, We’ll Explain How We Did the Assessments But We Don’t Expect YOU to Understand

The City’s chief assessor has announced that the Office of Property Assessment will post a document explaining how the new property assessments were determined–something that’s […]

City Life

City Council Threatens to Subpoena Mayor Over AVI

Certain City Council members, frustrated at the at-times erroneous nature of the city’s new AVI property assessments, are asking the city to reveal their exact […]

City Life

Freaked Out By the Gender-Neutral Bathrooms in Jim Kenney’s LGBT Bill?

Last Thursday, a City Council committee approved Councilman Jim Kenney’s LGBT equality bill, which offers spousal partnership benefits to non-married life partners—hospital visits, “next of […]

City Life

Major LGBT Rights Bill Coming to City Council

Tomorrow At-Large Councilman Jim Kenney will announce a piece of sweeping LGBT rights legislation. Here’s what he’s proposing: *   Create the first in the U.S. […]

City Life

The Battle over NFL Concussions Will Be Fought in Philadelphia

The fate of the NFL’s concussion problem is in the hands of a Philadelphia judge. Yesterday in federal court, lawyers representing 4,200 former NFL players […]

Property

While We Were Sleeping, City Council Districts Moved. It Was Kind of Like “Toy Story”

The changes to Philadelphia’s districting were supposed to take place in 2016, but somehow, without anyone noticing, City Council decided to just go ahead and […]

City Life

Add Paid Sick Leave to List of Stuff NYC Does that Philly Doesn’t

For the second time in his Mayoralty, Michael Nutter has vetoed a paid sick-leave bill, claiming it would render Philadelphia’s business climate uncompetitive, especially compared […]

City Life

AVI: Also Screwing City Council Members

City Paper has compiled a handy chart documenting how each City Council member will get affected by the city’s Actual Value Initiative (provided the current […]

City Life

Council Bans Guns From City Parks, Rec Centers

CBS Philly reports: Philadelphia City Council has given final approval to a measure that authorizes the mayor to ban guns in city parks and at […]

City Life

Councilwoman Owes Back Taxes On Property

More bad news for Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. City Paper reports: Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown has had a rough few years. In the midst of […]

City Life

The City’s Sick Leave Bill Is an Insult to Employers and Employees

James is a client of mine who runs a 30-person roofing company in Northeast Philadelphia. Last week, one of the people in his office wasn’t […]

City Life

Councilwoman Pushes Increased Female Presence On Corporate Boards

Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown—last seen pleading to ethic violations involving the misuse of her campaign funds—has decided there aren’t enough women on corporate boards. Newsworks […]

City Life

Berks County Investigating Campaign Donation to Bill Green

Berks county officials are looking into donations made to Bill Rubin and Bill Green when both were Philadelphia City Council candidates. The Berks County Board […]