Immigration
I don’t want to be gloating over New York City’s discomfort. Wait! I do want to gloat, because what I warned it against has come true. New York Mayor Eric Adams reverses course on shelter (Photo: CNN) Which is to say, its virtue-signaling and defiance-of-law status as a
Culture
Legendary DJ Jerry Blavat entered the gates of heaven in January at 82. Down on earth Wednesday night, Philadelphia named a portion of Broad Street “Jerry Blavat Way.” Broad is the city’s main artery, and for six decades, Jerry was the city’s musical heart. A two-hour dance party
Culture
If you are a Mummer or a fan of the Mummers, you might want to know that a Mayor Gym would likely spell the end of the 123-year-old parade, whose roots go back two centuries before that. What makes me think so? This tweet that she shot out after the
Politics
And now, Helen Gym begins to reveal her true self. The true self that is consumed with nonessentials and superficials. She lifted the curtain at a Thursday forum sponsored by the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists in an exchange with Jeff Brown, another mayoral candidate. They were asked how they
Politics
Over at Cherelle Parker’s headquarters, they started playing “Oh Happy Day” as soon as they heard Derek Green had dropped out, unable to compete with the flood of money and deep-pocket endorsements captured by the front runners. Green told me he had no regrets, and he had not made
Politics
There’s a truism around City Hall, that Allan Domb was the only member of City Council with experience at running a business. Like many other political truisms, it is false. Well, it was false until Derek Green resigned from Council to run for mayor. Before running for Council, Green
Riots
About that $9.25 million giveaway to people who may have been hurt by police who tried to put down the social justice protest riots following George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020: I see the big picture as a triad, with three elements. Before looking at the
Politics
The man who crowned himself a king says that he has no ego. A graduate of Washington D.C.’s American University with a degree in marketing, Allan Domb coined the term Condo King to brand himself. Unlike brands that are built on bologna, Domb’s walk backs up his
Jim Kenney
This won’t take long. It’s a simple object lesson of progressives identifying a problem and then throwing far too much money at correcting it. Case in point: In Mayor Jim Kenney’s final (thank God) budget, he’s calling for free SEPTA passes for Philadelphians mired in poverty.
Politics
He never voted until he was 30, former City Councilman David Oh tells me, sheepishly, as he sits for an interview in Chinatown’s EMei restaurant. Voting wasn’t a thing in Southwest Philadelphia where he grew up, he says, adding that he was intimidated by the voting procedures. His
Race
It was bound to happen. If you are a white person and don’t loudly and endlessly proclaim that you are “anti-racist,” then you are a racist to the Woke. If you are a white person and have actually done things to help Black people, then you are derisively slurred
Politics
No, I am not going to run for mayor (again). While a Daily News columnist I ran several times as a satire of mayor elections. It gave me a platform from which I could put some ideas on the table. I am going to do that again, without the political