Yesterday was relatively quiet in City Hall. At the recommendation of the Ethics Board, mayor-elect Michael Nutter will subject his inauguration fundraising to $2,500 per individual (compared to the $5,000 cap that existed this election season, courtesy of Tom Knox's self-funded campaign). Technically, the Ethics Board has no authority to impose inauguration contribution caps at all, but Nutter - given his ethics first platform - had self-imposed a $5,000 per person limit. Yesterday, the board asked him to use the lower limit, and his campaign agreed.
In an emotionally charged hearing in City Council chambers, the African American construction worker who said he'd been taunted with a noose at the Comcast construction site claimed he's since been blackballed.
And in Harrisburg, at least a dozen members of the Legislative Black Caucus walked out on a session to protest the chamber's resistance to seemingly all gun-control measures.
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