Rosetta Carrington Lue, The Director of 311 Call Center, speaking at yesterday’s PhillyBlocks 2008 conference
The City of Philadelphia has big plans for it’s 311 Call System that is scheduled to begin operations on December 31st. One of things that came out of a neighborhood conference today in Philadelphia was the 311 system will be [...]

by Shannon Curley
Yesterday a state court knocked down one of two strategies the City of Philadelphia is using to pass its own gun laws. The ruling does not directly affect the three recently passed gun laws. The laws require gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms, make it illegal to have a handgun [...]

by Shannon Curley
Today, the Institute for the Study of Civic Values, headed by former Philadelphia City Councilman Ed Schwartz, is hosting its 3rd Annual conference aimed at improving Philadelphia neighborhoods from a grassroots level up to the Mayor’s Office. The conference, PhillyBlocks 2008: The Neighborhood Agenda is going to be held at the Pennsylvania [...]

The Debate is over. What did you think? From the people we were following on Twitter, it seems like many people were annoyed by John McCain’s constant attacks and his repeated attempts to talk over Barack Obama alot.
I think McCain was the strategic winner, because he badly miscalculated earlier in the week by suspending his [...]

Updated: Now that the Presidential Debate is a go, Sarah Palin can began preparing for her pub party tonight in Philadelphia. She has reserved The Irish Pub at 20th and Walnut st for about 400 guests. But according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, she will arrive around 7:00pm, meet and greet, then leave at 8:30pm to [...]

WHYY’s It’s Our City and Y-Decide will be blogging live during and after tonight’s Presidential Debate. Dan Pohlig who runs Y-Decide is going to be offering his deep Harvard University informed stream of consciousness. While It’s Our City, will be here to showcase your comments live on our front page. (a more power to the [...]

The older brother of former Philadelphia Mayor John Street has been sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison and fined over $400-thousand dollars for failing to file tax returns. Ouch! Prosecutors say Milton Street willfully avoided paying taxes on nearly $3 million in income. He was sentenced this morning, handcuffed and ordered to start serving his [...]

I just saw this on the AP and had to share it with you. It says a judge has refused to grant a new trial for Milton Street the older brother of former Philadelphia Mayor John Street. Bummer for Milton because he could get up to three-years in prison. This happened this morning during what [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican John McCain says he’s going to be at the first presidential debate, even though Congress doesn’t have a bailout deal.
With less than 10 hours until the debate was scheduled to start, the McCain campaign announced that the Arizona senator would travel to the University of Mississippi. The campaign said after the [...]

Am I missing someting? Why does Philadelphia Councilman Wilson Goode Jr. and his legislative aide Latrice Bryant keep injecting race into this mini controversy over her time card. This should be a “petty story” as Goode described it yesterday to reporters, but he and Bryant are the ones who are making this a bigger story.
If [...]