Septa
Facts & figures: SEPTA vs. other mass transit
A friend of mine says SEPTA is shot through with waste, fraud, and mismanagement. But he says that about every government agency.
Culture
Car-hating Inkster crank case has strange ideas for I-95
Ah, the Inquirer’s crank case is at it again, spewing and spinning her anti-auto paranoia into a myopic mess built on wishful thinking rather than on reality. It’s like that with cranks, and Inkster Inga Saffron is at the head of the parade, this time inveighing against a
Jim Kenney
Kenney proposes a needless perk for city employees
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
A dozen ways the next mayor can fix Philly
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
Coronavirus
Not only Beatles can Imagine
“Let’s use this situation, this crisis, this time to actually learn the lessons, value from the reflection, and let’s reimagine what we want society to be.” — N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo The man who sometimes calls himself “the Love Gov,” because others have, sometimes sounds like a headmaster