Cherelle Parker
Mayor Cherelle Parker spends a lot on state-sponsored propaganda
Parker has a history of wanting to confound or muzzle the press.
Bike lanes
The bike fight moves to an issue of the budget
The war has moved from the broad expanse of the ocean to the small inlets along the shore. The battle is over to what extent the bicycle cult can dictate free movement to the lives of everyone else. Hearings on a bill to ban even momentary stopping in bike lanes
Bicycle Lanes
City Council, and the Inquirer, both miss the point
The Inquirer, as it often does, misses the point. Deliberately, I sometimes think. Here is the lead of a story posted Thursday, after City Council pretended to listen to objections to a bill that would prohibit stopping in bike lanes: “Philadelphia lawmakers unanimously passed a measure Thursday to ban motor
Culture
The bike testimony City Council did not hear
Locked out, that’s what I was Thursday morning, locked out. Locked out of what, you ask? Out of the City Council meeting that was going to hear testimony on the insane idea to ban even momentarily stopping in bicycle lanes, a subject I wrote about it last month. Council
Politics
Parker is putting your money where her mouth is
Mayor Cherelle Parker has talked the talk, and is now trying to walk the walk by asking City Council for $100 million for a drug treatment center and shelter for 600 people. [Update: Council approved her request.] Any way you look at it, $100 million is a shitload of money,
Race
Segregated Philly task force delves into reparations
A friend of mine, knowing how much I like to be helpful, asked me if I knew the PHL Reparations Task Force was looking for volunteers. The what? It is a committee set up by City Council, saying Task Force members “must have the capacity to provide pro bono professional
Mark Squilla
Nickel and diming means you pay 15 cents per paper bag
Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying nothing is certain except death and taxes. (He was talking about the viability of the new Constitution.) He overlooked the government's ability to give loyal citizens a not-so-royal hemorrhoid. It was not so long ago our august City Council — along with other
Drugs
Council moves to stop city shooting galleries
Finally, I won one. Well, not the first and not the only, but against my fears that Woke would triumph, Philadelphia City Council overwhelmingly rejected the insanity of so-called “supervised injection sites.” The site of the shooting gallery that was stopped dead by South Philadelphians Well-intentioned but clueless advocates started