That Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) checked out of his job a year ago is well known. Frustrated and beaten down, Mayor Jim Kenney quit on the city of Philadelphia late Monday night. After yet another shooting — this time involving two police officers shot during the July Fourth celebration on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway — […]
Will we get riots? That’s a typical Philly response by the Usual Suspects when a police officer kills a criminal suspect! Officer shot in Kensington standoff, suspect shot and killed by police The officer, 27, was in stable condition and expected to be released from the hospital Wednesday night. by Juliana Feliciano Reyes and Heather Khalifa | Wednesday, […]
In news that should surprise exactly no one, Philadelphia is losing population, and it’s worse than every other city among the twenty most populous in the United States. Most large U.S. cities reversed or slowed pandemic population drops. But not Philly. New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday shows 19 of the 20 […]
We have previously noted the jailbreak of Nasir Grant, 24, and Ameen Hurst, 18, from Philadelphia’s Industrial Correctional Center, and how other people are now facing charges for aiding them. Mr Grant, who was not previously facing charges which would have kept him locked up for life, was recaptured by federal marshals just a few […]
Let me be clear here: I don’t live in Philadelphia, I don’t work in Philly, and, since July of 2017, I haven’t even lived in Pennsylvania. A victory by Helen Gym Flaherty in the Democratic primary for mayor in the city was never going to affect me personally. But a victory for ‘progressives,’ which William […]
We reported on Wednesday about the terrible job that Philadelphia’s Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has done, not on the crime numbers, though those are certainly important, but on managing and leading the Department. But while leaders are normally called into account for the big things, it’s the little things that frequently don’t get noticed, but […]
Her job is riding a desk. Is she bed-ridden? Is she hospitalized? Is she too doped up on pain meds to work from her La-Z-Boy? Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw is off of work with a back injury. Police Commissioner Outlaw is out for a month with a back injury after a car crash Outlaw […]
Homicides have been down in the City of Brotherly Love, with a pace below that of 2022, which ended the year with 516 murders, and 2021, which holds the record-shattering 562 killings. but ahead of 2020, in which there were 499 homicides. 2020 remains a special case, with population lockdowns, and the death in police […]
Writers attempt to communicate with the written word, and decent writers should know at least something about grammar, to ply their trade most efficiently. One important concept in grammar is the difference between the comparative and the superlative. Comparatives vs. Superlatives Published October 7, 2019 Not all things are created equal: some are good, others […]