Much of the day-to-day citizen work in our city remains under the radar. That’s why we’ve launched Citizen Spotlight. We want to know what makes people’s inner civic clock tick. Rene Goodwin is our latest pick. She’s active in the Philadelphia Neighborhood Alliance, the Central Delaware Advocacy Group (CDAG), and the Riverfront Communities United group that opposes siting casinos along [...]

Fun break. Take a look what I found on the internet. A cool virtual tour of the State Capitol in Harrisburg. That’s in Pennsylvania for those of you who landed here by accident. This virtual tour project was created by students in the Photo Imaging Technology Program at the Berks Career & Technology Center’s West [...]

With the election – finally, at last, thank heavens – just a week away, the race for President has taken up most of the political oxygen. But there are a number of other races that will be on the ballot, including half the Pennsylvania State Senate and all 203 House seats.
Most incumbents will [...]

It’s not over yet: 6 teams have won the World Series after being down 1-3.
Former Phillies Pitcher Mitch Williams now a fan favorite
Is PA ready to handle the expected record turn out on Nov 4th?
Rick’s Steaks leaves Reading Terminal Market this week

Now we know who to blame if the Philadelphia Phillies lose. This is a picture of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter posing with a Phillies fan (a Phila police officer) and the World Series trophy taken today at city hall.  Doesn’t the mayor know that baseball is a highly superstitious game? Isn’t this the reason we [...]

Let’s assume for a minute that John McCain’s campaign is right and the polls are wrong and that he does have a chance of winning Pennsylvania on Nov. 4.

How does he pull it off?

If you listen to his campaign people this is their equation:

1. McCain does extraordinarily well in the Republican heartland [...]

Editor’s Note: I’m re-posting this from Oct 20th due to popular demand.

Yesterday when I was on 91FM during its membership drive for This American Life I finally got to hear public radio’s finest hour. The episode was a rebroadcast of the segment The Giant Pool of Money. America’s housing crises has become a global economic [...]

Each day you will find carefully selected links from the blogs and news media on issues relevant to life in the Delaware Valley in our Collective Wisdom post.
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Community groups want paper ballots ready on Nov 4th
Witness in Fumo trial says senator assigned staff to “improper” duties
NJ says diploma mill Ph.D’s don’t count

Each day you will find carefully selected links from the blogs and news media on issues relevant to life in the Delaware Valley in our Collective Wisdom post.
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Phila city council bill calls for nutritional labels for restaurants
PA NAACP demands paper ballot back-up plan
Public not privy to all budget talks
Philly’s Jewish voters. Susan Phillip’s has a [...]

By Christine Knapp

The Next Great City coalition released its 10-point environmental agenda in January of 2007 with the goal of influencing the Mayoral campaign and securing commitments from the candidates to implement the agenda once elected. As a candidate, Michael Nutter adopted our agenda into his sustainability position paper and committed himself to making [...]