Bollywood film crew shooting scenes in front of the PNC Bank Building made to look like a FBI office. Image credit: Ross Irwin

I’ve been meaning to post something about this story all day just because I know how much my colleague Alan loves the Bollywood stories. But now I realize I’ve never seen a [...]

Just a thought but it seems like at a time when some really big decisions will need to be made concerning mass transit in the region and when a nearly unprecedented amount of stimulus money for transit is flowing into the region, it’s not a good idea to hold up two otherwise qualified city representatives [...]

My reaction earlier to the Philadelphia Research Initiative’s latest poll from an email that I sent to folks on our news team:
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And this is why I hate issue based polls:
At the same time, Philadelphians give city officials little guidance about how the budget should be balanced.  Fewer services would mean fewer city workers, but 62 [...]

I don’t want the sarcasm of the title of my post to obscure the tragedy of a man losing his life, but rather to point out the ridiculousness way the story was reported. Greater Greater Washington is the gold standard for watching out for this shoddy reporting, advocating in its own subtle way, a change [...]

One of the problems with the way news is reported these days is that we often fail to put individual stories into their larger context.  Doing so requires a lot of work by reporters who are already pressed for time and it asks them to make certain leaps or conjectures that may not turn out [...]

As we reported on WHYY News a couple days ago, the Philadelphia International Cycling Classic is in danger of being can canceled for 2009 due to a shortfall in funding and a new city policy that requires events to pay for the use of city services like policing and clean up.
I have to admit, if [...]

A few weeks back when Sugarhouse revealed their plans to put a mega concrete parking box on a prime piece of the Delaware waterfront, I wondered how Pulitzer-prize finalist and scourge of unimaginative developers Inga Saffron would react.
It turns out, she must have been on her tour of California at the time because she didn’t [...]

Skateboarding in Love Park became an issue in the 2003 mayor’s race when the Katz campaign (full disclosure: at my suggestion as a Katz staffer after I was informed about the issue by the proprietor of this blog) decided to put Sam on a skateboard and make a call to reopen the park to the [...]

At least not with a bridge that also doubles as an entrance/exit to the Schuylkill Expressway…
That’s a suggestion in this op-ed (h/t to Will Bunch) which includes the bike/ped option for the South Street bridge among many other bold but unfortunately unlikely ideas to improve the transit infrastructure in this town. The whole op-ed is [...]

So I noticed from my daily Philadelphia Business Journal update that the Tasty Baking Company has finally moved its offices into its new digs at the Navy Yard way down at the south end of Broad Street. I mentioned this to Alan which reminded him to check out a website that he had seen posted [...]