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New Charter Watch: “City Charter convention”

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pm - by Dan Pohlig

In my ongoing effort to keep track of every mention of a complete rebuild of city government in the news, by political officials and by the citizenry, I present the latest bit from a comment by Ray Murphy of Young Philly Politics:
I do think that the form of “strong mayor” government that 70 wants to [...]


New Charter Watch: So what is the old charter anyway?

Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 4:51 pm - by Dan Pohlig

I talked a lot about the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter yesterday and it strikes me that most folks in Philadelphia - on the order of, say, 98% - have never seen the charter or known about its existence.  So let’s begin the lesson with a couple of use full links.
The city’s website has the annotated [...]


Introducing “New Charter Watch”

Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 5:54 pm - by Dan Pohlig

The news is often said to provide the “first draft of history” and as such, journalists always find the really big events interesting.  Often, though, because of the immense amount of information and number of events that happen on a daily basis, we sometimes miss the first few moments of the really big events.
Blogging gives [...]

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