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Tag: Mayor Kenney

A Mummers Parade without controversy? Wow!

January 2, 2023 Stu Bykofsky

By all accounts, the 2023 Mummers Parade was colorful (as always), loud (as always), and free of controversy (not always).…

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Posted in: Mummers, Uncategorized Filed under: Blackface, Chuck Tomasco, Jay-Z, Larry Mendte, Mayor Kenney

2023 is an undistinguished number

January 1, 2023 Stu Bykofsky 7 Comments

Happy New Year? It’s 2023. 2023? What a nothing number. Like they say in baseball, lots of crooked numbers, but…

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Posted in: Culture, Uncategorized Filed under: Mayor Kenney, Millennium, Mummers

What Helen Gym really wanted

June 24, 2021 Stu Bykofsky 15 Comments

Philadelphia’s favorite harridan, City Council member Helen Gym, was arrested Wednesday — according to her plan — in Harrisburg as…

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Posted in: Helen Gym Filed under: Darrell Clarke, Mayor Kenney

Demoralized, cops are leaving in record numbers

February 4, 2021 Stu Bykofsky 19 Comments

Anti-cop critics may not have to actually “defund the police.” Philadelphia police are depopulating their own ranks in an unprecedented…

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Posted in: Police Filed under: Defund the Police, DROP, Larry Krasner, Mayor Kenney, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw

Leases available at gated community

September 24, 2020 Stu Bykofsky 13 Comments

Memo from Seizem & Squat, Realtor Since its opening on June 10, what we call Camp JTD has been a…

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Posted in: Homelessness, Uncategorized Filed under: Mayor Kenney

Vigilantes — or self defense?

June 3, 2020 Stu Bykofsky 43 Comments

There were armed guards on 9th Street, hired by Italian Market merchants. A shotgun-carrying private security guard forced several youths…

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Posted in: Looting, Police, Uncategorized Filed under: Danielle Outlaw, Mayor Kenney

Health dictators and the law

May 10, 2020 Stu Bykofsky 17 Comments

The answer came too late for a column in which I questioned where the mayor gets the legal authority to…

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Posted in: Coronavirus, Uncategorized Filed under: Health Department, Lockdown orders, Mayor Kenney

What? The Right opposes law and order?

May 5, 2020 Stu Bykofsky 19 Comments

Does society have a right to institute rules and laws to protect its citizens from preventable harm? Self-evident, isn’t it?…

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Posted in: Coronavirus, Crime, Uncategorized Filed under: Law and order, Mayor Kenney, Snitch line

Virus: Crime goes down, but won’t stay down

March 27, 2020 Stu Bykofsky 6 Comments

Here’s proof that almost every gray cloud has a silver lining. Philadelphia Police Department statistics show that during the first…

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Posted in: Coronavirus, Crime, Uncategorized Filed under: Larry Krasner, Mayor Kenney

Virus: Americans versus chuckleheads

March 26, 2020 Stu Bykofsky 57 Comments

More than a week into turning your home into a jail rather than a castle, I am (happily) surprised by…

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Posted in: Coronavirus, Crime, Uncategorized Filed under: Gov. Phil Murphy, Mayor Kenney, Rich Zeoli, Wegmans

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