The news lately has been so crazy that Martin Scorcese could option the stories as scripts, 5 shots on Friday night alone. One of those Friday murders so extraordinary that I do not even want to discuss it. Young Philly Politics used it as a jumping off point for an interesting discussion about women, violence and abuse.
Also, Michael Nutter is in Chicago visiting Mayor Daley. Odd as he is only a candidate so far. It strikes me as funny to see a candidate acting like he has already won, but even more so, seeing the mayor acting as if he is no longer in office. Between the school system's current "administrative overhaul" to the new problem with the Water Company's dated software. Perhaps his iPhone is occupying too much of his time. Or perhaps he is just spending time reading through the 500 pages of his bill before sending it to the city for payment.
Also, Tom Knox, remember him? He is trying to create a statewide health system... If i'm not mistaken he lost his election. That aside, if it goes as planned, it is potentially a great thing for the state of Pennsylvania, but an even better thing for Tom Knox if he truly has aspirations of the Senate or the Governor's Mansion.
It seems like a lot of different things are taking place in Philadelphia, the question is, what do you think about these things?
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Yeah no mention of the zero murders on Saturday or Sunday. Why no mention? Hmmmm.
By the way, why is that article called Street Cleaning in Philly by Harry & Fred Siegel even linked on the homepage?
It has atleast 3 or 4 inaccurracies in only its first 2 or 3 sentences?!?
Posted by Patricio | August 20, 2007 2:12 PM
Well put, Phil. But then, maybe like me to a large extent, you're thinking old Philadelphia. For as the city's bad reputation grows and I tell my outsider friends what this city's like nowadays -- so often now in a lamentful tone as it were -- the response of incredulousness I so often get at this late stage is, "Well what do you expect?! It's PHILADELPHIA after all!" As in duh-uh!
And I think Patricio's remarks might've been meant to drive home just how bad this city's become when it becomes a thing of note that no murders happened on a rare Philadelphia Saturday and Sunday. There's two ways of reading that.
Posted by Steve W. | August 21, 2007 2:08 AM