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Todd Shepherd: Philly PD providing extra security to some city council members

June 10, 2020December 15, 2020
Todd Shepherd

While most of City Council stays silent as law enforcement are vilified — and signs off on bills to prevent police funding increases — the vast majority of members are receiving private police protection.
By Todd Shepherd

B+L Investigates

Jenny DeHuff: Should tech school grads get hiring preference for city jobs like vets do? Council weighs the question

February 20, 2020December 15, 2020
Jenny DeHuff

City Council faces a question that many local governments are grappling with: Expand a benefit to help a new group of people and risk watering it down, or preserve the present system that help veterans and first responders exclusively?

Housing

Kyle Sammin: Councilmanic Prerogative — Philadelphia’s invitation to corruption

February 13, 2020December 12, 2020
Kyle Sammin
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What can be done about Philadelphia’s corrupting ‘Councilmanic Prerogative’? How can an informal practice be outlawed, especially when the people who could outlaw it are the ones who benefit from it?

Politics

Logan Chipkin: Philly’s Working Families Party will only make city’s problems worse

January 15, 2020December 15, 2020
Logan Chipkin
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Philadelphia has elected its first City Council member from the Working Families Party, a movement dedicated to ending poverty and inequality, making housing affordable and overcoming climate change. Unfortunately, their plans will not only fail to solve Philadelphia’s problems, they will also cause complicated new ones.
By Logan Chipkin

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