Sanctuary City
Is Philly still sanctuary city? Inquirer misses a key point
Like it or not, illegal immigration is against the law, no matter how some try to deny it
Soda tax
Predictably, the soda tax failed to deliver
When the tax was enacted, it was projected to generate about $91 million a year. Can you say pipe dream?
Helen Ubinas
If it’s not guns, Helen Ubinas is shooting at racism
For some reason (the reason is Trump and Musk) journalists find the axing of government employees sinful.
Cherelle Parker
Nonprofit launches to fight City Hall on no-stop bike lanes
The other shoe has dropped, with an all-too-predictable thud, on city streets. In order to patch its idiotic law that prohibits even momentary stops in bicycle lanes, the city is proposing to create loading zones by eliminating 5-6 parking spaces on every block between Front and 22nd streets. That’s
News
Welcome to the Cherelle Parker hiring hall for disgraced Dems
She has designated herself as employer of last resort for damaged Dems. Call it the Parker Picks Employment Agency. Latest example is the Parker Picks hiring of seven-term former State Rep Kevin Boyle, 45, as a deputy director of external affairs in the managing director’s office, with a $110,
Cherelle Parker
Welcome to the Cherelle Parker hiring hall for disgraced Dems
Mayor Cherelle Parker has an odd taste in hiring — showing a preference for felons and mental cases, just as long as they are Democrats. She has designated herself as employer of last resort for damaged Dems. Call it the Parker Picks Employment Agency. Latest example is the Parker Picks hiring
Bicycle Lanes
Nonprofit launches to fight City Hall on no-stop bike lanes
The other shoe has dropped, with an all-too-predictable thud, on city streets. In order to patch its idiotic law that prohibits even momentary stops in bicycle lanes, the city is proposing to create loading zones by eliminating 5-6 parking spaces on every block between Front and 22nd streets. That’s
Immigration
Sanctuary cities plan to defy immigration law, still
I see a strange, unlikely parallel between the promise of churches to resist deportation of “migrants” (correct term, illegal residents) and the action of churches 60 years ago to protect civil rights protestors. The crucial difference is the civil rights protestors of yore were trying to demand federal law, while
Politics
Helen Ubinas tees off on double-talking mayor
Just minutes after I learned the Sixers Arena deal had collapsed like the team’s playoff hopes, I posted this on Facebook. I had no facts, just a half century of living in Philadelphia, and decades of covering Philadelphia politics. I was busy with other issues and decided to pass
Anti-Semitism
Feds bash Philly schools for enabling anti-Semitism
I once wrote, with sincerity, that Philadelphians divide their time between bragging about Philly, and trashing it. As a columnist, I’ve done more of the latter. Because problems seem to have a longer lifetime than achievements. Some columnists, like the famous Herb Caen, wrote what he called a series
Philadelphia 76ers
Sixers Arena: Lots of leadership missing, and that’s no accident
[This was published in the Inquirer on Thursday, Dec, 12. The subject is the Sixers Arena, but whose leadership does it mean? Interspersed are comments on another bill Council bullied through to passage in less than three months.] “A Failure of leadership” by The Editorial Board After all the shouting,
Immigration
Inquirer scoreboard: It keeps pushing Open Borders
God knows I don’t want to be a noodge about it, but as long as the Inquirer keeps up its pro-illegal push, I feel obligated to respond to it, because no other mainstream media will. And, yes, this blog is mainstream, centrist, with a simple Operating System (as the