Archive for the 'Philadelphia' Category
“No Brown Bowling”
I’ve been meaning to post this for days.
The lovely and talented Phillygrrrrrrrrrrl got a faceful of the old-fashioned bigotry this past Sunday at Thunderbird Lanes on 3081 Holme avenue:
[I]f you walk into Thunderbird Lanes with a group of brown kids from your church’s youth group on a Sunday and they tell you all the lanes [...]
Another Way To Save Money: REFORM THE DRUG LAWS
Did anybody see yesterday’s news about the drug informer who lied to the cops for years:
For seven years, Martinez has worked as one of the city’s most productive police informants, bringing down more than 200 drug and gun dealers.
But Martinez now says that some of the police jobs were tainted, rooted in lies and motivated [...]
MAYOR NUTTER, DON’T CUT OUR SERVICES: TAX THE BANKS! THEY GOT US INTO THIS MESS TO BEGIN WITH.
Writing at Young Philly Politics, Stan Shapiro has some suggestion for the mayor in lieu of service cuts. One stood out:
The Business Privilege Tax. This is actually two taxes, one of which falls on business gross receipts, the other on net income. There are a number of ways to target this tax to fall more [...]
TOTAL RECALL IN PHILLY
California voters kicked out Gray Davis. Philadelphians can do the same with the Mayor.
well, well, well! Here’s an interesting little chapter of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter:
Article IX.
REMOVAL OF ELECTIVE AND APPOINTIVE OFFICERS
CHAPTER 1
Recall of Mayor and Other Elective Officers
[snip]
CHAPTER 1
Recall of Mayor and Other Elective Officers
Section 9-100
Officers Subject to Recall.
Any person holding any elective [...]
MICHAEL NUTTER STILL ISN’T LISTENING, STILL FULL OF BALONEY
We’re now within days of starting a new city budget process in which I’ll be asking for citizen input, ideas and priorities BEFORE I put together a proposed budget to present to City Council.
In recent weeks, I’ve been talking at churches, barbershops and homes. I’ve talked to block captains and folks in diners. I’ve told [...]
February 14: I Love My Library Day
This Saturday is Valentines Day, and what Philadelphia institution is more deserving of a little love than our beleagured branch libraries?
Celebrate Philadelphia’s great public libraries at the following branches this Saturday, February 14, 2009. And make sure you see below for an earlier event at the Ogontz Branch.
Haddington - 446 N. 65th Street
1-3pm : Arts [...]
UPENN: PHILADELPHIA TAX DODGER
Citizens/Groups to Challenge Mayor/Penn/WHYY on Budget Forums
Forums called Public Relations Ploy — “More rats or fewer libraries/stacked deck” campaign.
For Immediate Release
For additional information, please contact
Bob Bedard at (cell): 202.413.6638.
PRESS CONFERENCE — February 9, 2009 – 3 PM
DETAILS:
Leaders of organized groups and activist citizens, Monday, February 9, 2009, will hold a press conference challenging [...]
“Tough Times, Tough Choices”: Talk About Bogus!
Just the title of the Penn-sponsored budget forums “Tough Times, Tough Choices”, sets my radar off, as Philadelphians are set up to decide which programs we should cut, rather than how we can continue to pay for these essential services. A number of people I know have personal experience fighting what they called the University’s [...]
Read More..>>O Brother, Where Am I? Dill Pickles TONIGHT! Fergie’s Pub!
I got a nice little blurb in at Phawker today about old time music:
“Old time,” my fiddle-playing friend Nik says, “is like acoustic trance music.” At least the fiddle tunes are. While a bluegrass song is generally about 3 minutes long, old time songs can go on for a lot longer than that. In [...]
Dill Pickles: Old Time at Fergie’s, February 6
You will need Quicktime to hear us play “Johnson’s Old Grey Mule”. That’s me making all those horrible animal noises.
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