By Dan Pohlig
This article in Wednesday’s Daily News about how the current state budget impasse is halting efforts to get a supermarket built in the city of Chester got me thinking about how government has embraced the “supermarket” as the be-all and end-all of improving public health in low income areas.
In fact, in the very [...]

By Dan Pohlig
Tom Skerritt had a great line in Top Gun that I’ve borrowed on many occasions when I need something other than “he went to the well once too often.” When breaking the news of Goose’s death to Maverick (and if you don’t know who these people are, c’mon on!) he says, “You fly [...]

By Mark Berkey-Gerard
When Congress passed the $787 billion stimulus package earlier this year, government officials promised to provide details of how the money is spent on a Web site called Recovery.gov.
“Every American can go online and see where and how we are spending every dime,” President Barack Obama said.
But what began as an effort in [...]

By Dan Pohlig
Today is truly a great day for Philadelphia.  No, I’m not talking about the acquisition of diminutive (not so much these days) Dominican fireballer (also not so much) Pedro Martinez by the hometown Phillies.  Nope.  I’m referring to the decision by the Nutter Administration and the Streets Department to turn one full lane [...]

By Mark Berkey-Gerard
How much are you willing to pay to read Philly.com? Two cents per article? $2.25 a week? Nothing?
That is the multimillion-dollar question the owners of the Philly.com, the Inquirer, and the Daily News are currently trying to answer.
In June, publisher Brian Tierney said that readers will have to pay for online news by [...]

By Mark Berkey-Gerard
Beginning tonight, area residents can attend a series of open houses to learn more about a proposed light rail line that would run from Glassboro to Camden.
However, the plan - which also calls for improvements to the Atlantic City Rail Line and express bus service along Routes 55 and 42 — is not entirely new. It is [...]

By Sandy Wiggins
I love our new Greenworks Philadelphia plan. Goal #7 calls for diverting 70% of our City’s solid waste from landfills by the year 2015. It’s an ambitious target considering our current 12% recycling rate, but one that is achievable as evidenced by other cities across the country like San Francisco, which is currently [...]

By Patrick Cobbs
There’s a big fight brewing over taxes in City Hall. Today, City Council moved ahead with its plan to explore whether the city can legally raise the wage tax. Council adopted a resolution that requires City Finance Director Rob Dubow to officially determine if the city’s revenues are down by two-percent or [...]

By Patrick Cobbs
When the bell rings, come out fighting. Philadelphia City Council budget hearings (cage matches) are underway, and the winners will be the ones who manage to drag themselves, bloodied and bruised, from room 400 when it’s all over in mid-May.
At least that’s how it feels sometimes.
Last week, I dropped by City Council to [...]

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By Patrick Cobbs
Mayor Michael Nutter made his 2010 budget proposal official Thursday with an address to City Council. He’s calling it “the people’s budget” because of all the good civic input over the last several [...]