Vincent takes the stand for the third day and offers his own rendition of this country classic…..Feel free to sing along…..
I’m sorry, so sorry
That I was such a fool
I didn’t know
You feds could be so cruel
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh-oh
Oh, yes.
You say my mistakes
Are against the law.
I guess I see (now)
The wrong that’s been done
 
(I’m sorry) [...]

In advance of the citizen budget workshops in Philadelphia, the city has posted a much more detailed version of the budget cut scenarios. In this 80-page pdf, the city gives a better view of how a 10 percent budget cut would look like in each department.
In the power point file provided to the media yesterday, [...]

Looks like the Daily News did a slightly more intensive survey of the 3-1-1 system’s performance than I did in my own experience from a couple weeks ago:
During our two-day trial - in which we made a total of 30 calls - we encountered friendly operators who worked hard to help us with our queries. [...]

The SS United States docked in Philadelphia has been put up for sale. A preservation group for the mothballed ocean liner fears a buyer could end up using it as scrap metal.
Steven Ujifusa, who was a volunteer production assistant for the above video, has a story on PlanPhilly about the ship’s possible sale and an [...]

We know that most Philadelphians love their city but would you encourage someone from, say Denver, to move to Philly? I ask that because on Thursday Larry Eichel released his first survey as Project Director for the Philadelphia Research Initiative. It is a new think tank in Philly that’s all about Philly. His survey showed [...]

Mayor Michael Nutter announced a three year fund raising campaign this afternoon that could lead to more city pools being open this summer.
Before today, only 12 of the city’s more than 80 pools were scheduled to open for the Summer. That’s because in November the mayor announced budget cuts in many departments to close a [...]

Should Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers stop giving their stories away for free? Stu Bykofsky, a columnist for the free Philadelphia Daily News argues this morning that The DN and The Philadelphia Inquirer are partly to blame for their revenue death spiral. His solution is “end the free on-line lunch.”
We all know by now that more [...]

While Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell was careful this morning to say he would not raise any broad-based taxes, He had no problem with counties starting their own sales taxes. The governor included this gold nugget for local governments in his new proposed spending plan for fiscal 2009-2010.
“I am proposing to give counties the ability to [...]

OK, I need your help on the latest Pew Study. This one asked more than 2000 people where they would most want to live.
Of the survey’s 30 cities, Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs placed 17th.
My question is should we be happy about this? When it comes down to the big question in life “Where [...]

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter made good on his promise to replace the Penn’s Landing Corporation (PLC) with a new agency that he hopes will be more transparent an effective. At a news conference this morning at the Independence Seaport Museum, the mayor said PLC will be re-invented as the Delaware River Waterfront Corportation with a [...]