Black Lives Matter
I don’t know if the spasm we are living through is more like the French Revolution, or Communist China’s Cultural Revolution, with our version being called (by the ever-edgy Christine Flowers), the Multi-Cultural Revolution. You can’t swing a cat without hitting a celebrity or corporation crawling into
ACCT Philly
I hope this doesn’t come across as a desperate attempt to find a silver lining in a dark cloud, meaning the COVID-19 pandemic. But it is a happy fact that for the first time since Philadelphia’s animal shelter was reborn as ACCT Philly in 2012, the building at
ACCT Philly
Aurora Velazquez is the fifth executive director of ACCT Philly, the city’s animal shelter, since 2012. “Does that worry you?,” I ask during an interview in her office at 111 W. Hunting Park Avenue in the Feltonville section. “Sure,” she says matter-of-factly, “it is a major concern, one of
ACCT Philly
The woman who just resigned as the leader of the city animal shelter, and the man who oversees it, recently had it out in a brutally frank exchange of guided missives. Firing first was Brian Abernathy, Philadelphia managing director, who supervises the city animal shelter, known as ACCT Philly, located
ACCT Philly
Sing to the tune of Steam’s “Na, Na, Hey, Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye”: Mayor Kenney, Abernathy Fund ACCT Philly Or say goodbye In the 90-plus heat Wednesday afternoon, about 150 animal advocates shouted slogans and chanted in support of ACCT Philly, the city’s dilapidated and underfunded animal shelter.