The William Penn Foundation, the powerful grant-making foundation, has suspended new grants to city agencies while it faces a complaint before the Philadelphia Board of […]
Brushing aside allegations that she used campaign funds for personal reasons, as well as the federal charges being levied against her former campaign manager, Blondell […]
There was a time back in the ’90s that a portion of my nightly prayers were dedicated to asking God to make Dick Yuengling adopt […]
The most important neighborhood newspapers you’re probably not reading are the Germantown Chronicle and the Northwest Independent. One spot in Philadelphia where these papers have […]
It keeps getting worse for Council Member Blondell Reynolds Brown. First it was revealed that she paid personal debts out of her campaign funds—an ethical […]
A few weeks ago, Michael Nutter told District Council 33 that if they didn’t accept his final offer on a new contract, agreement he would […]
Mayor Nutter has been pursuing a new property tax assessment system as though he’s Inspector Javert hunting Jean Valjean. Finally, his Actual Value Initiative (AVI) […]
Mayor Nutter is in one of those moods again, the one where he’s cranky about the city’s flaws and uses colorful, somewhat overwrought language to […]
Speaking of unpaid taxes, it turns out that developer Bart Blatstein—the guy behind the Piazza in Northern Liberties, as well as of the old Inquirer […]
In a battle between City Hall and America’s Oldest Brewery, Philadelphians are probably inclined to be on the side of the folks providing their lager. […]
Ed Koch, the outspoken, sly-witted “mayor for life” (or three terms) of New York City, died this morning at the age of 88 in New […]
I already hear the overwrought indignation coming from the Jersey Shore. Aggressively anti-tanning Councilman Bill Greenlee is proposing a bill to prevent young folks from […]
A couple weeks ago, Mayor Nutter issued a vague but threatening ultimatum that if no contract deal between the city and DC 33, the city’s […]
One time, in 2004, U.S. Rep Chaka Fattah delivered an earmark so unquestionably questionable, the Environmental Protection Agency (under Bush!), nixed it. What was it […]
Philadelphia draws some praise from the Christian Science Monitor for using “green” strategies to keep rainwater from becoming polluted as it runs through the gutters […]
