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
Immigration
Permit me to gloat. Months ago, when I read that some dastardly Republican governors were bussing illegal undocument “migrants” from their overwhelmed border towns to Sanctuary Cities in the North, such as New York, Chicago and Washington, I complained that Philadelphia was being overlooked. I wrote an Open Letter to
Immigration
Hon. Greg Abbott Texas Governor Austin, TX Dear Gov. Abbott: Howdy! I am writing to congratulate you on your pioneering policy of getting illegals “undocumemted” people to places of shelter in New York City, a proud and sprained brain “sanctuary city,” which says it is “welcoming” to people regardless of
Jim Kenney
“Kenney has never fully embraced the public part of being a public official.He rarely smiles and is often snippy and surly. He reads speeches straight from the script and does not try to hide his often grumpy and detached look.” No, gentle reader, that is not my writing, although
Mummers Parade
The 2022 Mummers Parade probably had the lowest turnout and offered the least controversy in recent memory. Past controversy was sparked by actual wrongdoing -- such as 1 out of 10,000 Mummers smearing blackface (banned for more than 50 years) on their faces -- or imagined wrongdoing, such as