According to data released by AAA Mid-Atlantic this month, 33,627 drivers were issued a ticket last year by the red-light camera at the intersection immediately […]
To paraphrase the First Amendment of the federal constitution, “The Mayor of Philadelphia shall make no law abridging firefighters’ freedom of speech … or their […]
Last week, Mayor Nutter submitted the City of Philadelphia’s plan to raise and spend public money for the coming five years to Philadelphia’s state-established financial-oversight […]
The last time (the only time?) a plastic bag was seen as hauntingly beautiful—as a stand-in, even, for exquisite moments we brush by in our […]
We all got a big kick out of the city’s April Fools’ prank this year—the world’s first “e-lane” for distracted pedestrians—but the joke did carry a message: […]
It was another difficult spring in Philadelphia for Mayor Michael Nutter: rising homicide rates, a recalcitrant City Council, the schools in disarray.
Approximately 3,500 firefighters, in town for a convention, plan to march down Broad Street to City Hall around lunchtime on Thursday. The protest is said […]
When he wasn’t busy founding Philadelphia, William Penn said some pretty smart things, such as, “governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them.” […]
So, Mayor Nutter’s proposed property tax reassessment plan was delayed for at least a year. The Actual Value Initiative (AVI) had many people concerned over […]
On Tuesday, Mayor Nutter appeared in federal court to defend Philadelphia’s ban on feeding the homeless on parkland like the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and LOVE […]
Philadelphia attorneys representing numerous religious groups will appear in federal court on Monday to argue that the city’s ban on feeding the homeless on city […]
Philadelphia Police officers opened fire on a man who allegedly pointed a gun at them outside City Hall this morning. Witnesses say that the man […]
The City of Philadelphia is planning on rolling out a mobile app. Let me repeat that in case you missed it: The. City. Of. Philadelphia. Is. Planning. On. Rolling. Out. A. […]
New lobbyist disclosure statements filed recently with the city’s Board of Ethics offer a first-ever look at how special interests attempt to influence policy in […]
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.” Howard Beale, a fictional TV anchor in the movie Network, led Americans […]
