The next mayor’s race isn’t for two more years, but the prospective 2015 field? Not so inspiring. To help turn up some more exciting contenders, […]
YouTube user vicdella80 has come up with one of the great “gotcha” videos of the year. It’s Philadelphia Parking Authority workers … sitting in a PPA-marked […]
MyFox Philly reports on Tuesday’s city primary election: Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz has faced down two challengers for the Democratic nomination in his campaign […]
City Controller candidate Brett Mandel has been slapped on the wrist. A complaint filed this morning in Election Court by City Controller Alan Butkovitz’s campaign […]
On May 1st each year, the city’s elected officials are required to tell the world how they make their money, and what kind of gifts […]
Time to see what the city’s creaky election machinery can do in an off-year primary election: Tuesday, Philadelphia voters—we’re presuming at least two—will go to […]
According to the Daily News‘s math beat reporter, at-large Councilman Bill Green has missed 15 of 16 budget hearings in the last two months. Brian […]
A new study from Pew Charitable Trusts shows that—surprise!—the city’s tax burden will shift away from businesses and to residential property owners under the new […]
Finally, in the form of District Attorney Seth Williams, Philadelphia has its very own vigilante crime-stopping Cory Booker doppelganger: Williams was driving along the 500 […]
Protesting looming cuts to school programs and staff that many have described as disastrous, hundreds of Philadelphia students marched to City Hall, and then up […]
CBS Philly reports that City Controller Alan Butkovitz has declared the city’s new AVI property tax assessments —designed to more fairly tax owners on their […]
NBC 10 reports: Local residents are preparing for a royal visit this weekend. A delegation of senior diplomats from Sweden and Finland will visit Philadelphia, […]
Since 2008, there’s been a lot of loose talk in Washington about the socialist imperatives of a certain Kenyan president of ours. But even in […]
Today City Council voted 15-0 on a bill to approve digital ads on city-owned property. Bus shelters, garbage trucks, heck, public schools. You name it, […]
It’s an annual rite of spring. Restaurant and bar and cafe owners plunk down tables on their sidewalks, legally or not, and the city vows […]
