It’s Our City broadcast its 3rd TV program last night on WHYY-TV.  In case you missed it, we’ve posted the links to the video and to an audio file. The program featured Arlene Ackerman, the Superintendent of the Philadelphia School District an with Lori Shorr, the Chief Education Officer for Mayor Michael Nutter. The two [...]

Philebrity wants to know.
What am I talking about?  WHYY’s Susan Phillips got the reaction from Comcast, whose monopoly over cable could be threatened by City Councilman Darrell Clarke’s legislation to give Verizon a license to run its FiOS system in Philadelphia.
You can listen to her story here.
Anyway, like the Philebrity post mentions, it’s not altogether [...]

By John Chin
The Gallery Market East was put in play as an alternate site for the Foxwoods casino on September 9, 2008. Governor Rendell and Mayor Nutter stood together to announce this center city site.  Shortly after, City Council hurried the legislative process to introduce the “Commercial Entertainment District” legislation, which would accommodate a casino [...]

It’s been just over a week since Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced his plan to cut $100 million over the next 7 1/2 months. In that time, both the union for the firefighters and supporters of the library have quickly mobilized with press releases and rallies. The two are getting the lion’s share of media [...]

Updated: 2:17pm
Citizen activist has grand vision for old power plant but will anyone listen?
Updated: 11:44am
Neighborhood Networks town hall meeting scheduled for Monday, Nov 17th. Now this is civic engagement at its most local level. Speakers to include: Maria Quinones Sanchez, Seth Williams, Carol Rogers, Marc Stier.
Original post: 8:14am
Philadelphia Mayor goes to DC seeking slice of [...]

I don’t mean to the bearer of bad news but this economic crisis is beginning to really take its toll on the region. I’ve compiled a few headlines to show you what I mean. All of these stories are from the past two weeks.
PA Turnpike Authority to cut jobs
Tasty Baking in Phila logs $1.4m loss
Subaru [...]

It’s been awhile since former Philadelphia Mayor John Street has done any public events. He left office in January and was doing some teaching at Temple University.  But apart from that, and possibly a sighting at an AT&T store, he really hasn’t been seen much. So I was surprised when Brett Mandel from Philadelphia Forward [...]

As a volunteer, Greg Wade in 2006 started running the Philadelphia Home and School Council: a non-profit organization made up of parent groups representing individual public schools across the city. His peers recently reelected him for another two year term. As director, Wade’s duties included managing a fund supported by home and school associations across the city. Now, he’s been charged for embezzling $60,000 from that fund and [...]

The parent companies of two of Philadelphia’s TV stations say they will form a local news service to create and distribute video news coverage.  Fox Television Stations Inc. and NBC Local Media  say this partnership will begin in Philadelphia and other cities beginning in January 2009.
The Associated Press says the the participating stations [...]

NBC10 video of her interview
Latrice Bryant is a legislative aide to Philadelphia City Councilman Wilson Goode Jr. Yesterday she gave an exclusive interview to NBC10 to give her side of the story. In September, she held up hand written signs saying “Fox 29 are racists,” and “Jeff Cole KKK.” This came after the Fox affiliate [...]