Friday roundup
- Mayoral candidate bits
- Taubenberger's official launch as the GOP candidate.
- Apparently no amount of controversy is too much for Tom: Knox vows to spend his way to the top. Anytime you want to get back to issues...
- Michael Nutter is unafraid of Knox and urges local politicians not to panic (and to keep the few reforms we've managed).
- Dwight Evans was the only mayoral candidate invited to a big summit of black clergy, and he took the opportunity to talk about the role of the Police Commissioner (he has vowed to bring back Timmoney).
- Chaka Fattah may have already broken a campaign promise, by using money from his "exploratory committee" (collected in excess of campaign finance limits) to fund his ongoing campaign. My, I *am* surprised...
- Taubenberger's official launch as the GOP candidate.
- Council noises
- Philadelphia's City Council discussed campaign finance un-reform yesterday; might be another month before they decide (so don't stop whining!). [Also noted here is approval for the Zoning Reform Commission, and the ending of some budget battles with Street.] The Inquirer offers another editorial arguing against changing the rules now. I agree with Dan, who argues that the new Kenney bill is not a compromise but just a disaster of minutely smaller scale.
- They also approved a ban on trans-fats at restaurants, starting September 1. (Baked goods will be covered a year later, although packaged snacks are exempted.)
- Philadelphia's City Council discussed campaign finance un-reform yesterday; might be another month before they decide (so don't stop whining!). [Also noted here is approval for the Zoning Reform Commission, and the ending of some budget battles with Street.] The Inquirer offers another editorial arguing against changing the rules now. I agree with Dan, who argues that the new Kenney bill is not a compromise but just a disaster of minutely smaller scale.
- Other news
- SEPTA has scrapped its orange ticket machines, apparently because they "can't handle the new $1 bill." What new $1 bill?!
- Updates on attempts to appeal the casino decisions: a bad precedent from elsewhere in the state (on who has legal standing), and difficulty in finding a local lawyer with no conflicts of interest (heh).
- AAJane notes that Patrick Murphy was elected to a leadership position. Go, Pat!
- A cool idea from New Jersey: they're considering setting up an electronics recycling program. Imagine if all those old cell phones and computers (and especially their nasty heavy metal components) weren't filling up the landfill and polluting the environment!
- The Daily News has an editorial on Philadelphia's drop-out problem.
- A YPP poster looks at Rendell's plans to lease the turnpike, and other transit funding issues.
- Pennsyltucky Politics offers an overview of the politics around state judicial races this year, a topic most of us aren't following yet.
- SEPTA has scrapped its orange ticket machines, apparently because they "can't handle the new $1 bill." What new $1 bill?!
posted by ACM at 5:42 PM
1 Comments:
I thought the same thing when I read the Inqy article about SEPTA's ticket machines. When the SEPTA spokesman said "new paper currency," he apparently meant the higher-value bills with off-center faces that first appeared in March 1996. I couldn't believe it back in 1999 when I first moved to the area that the transit vending machines couldn't take the new bills, but after seven years of living with SEPTA I'm not shocked by any incompetence.
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