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Thom Nickels: City Council’s proposed sprinkler ordinance looks to be costly and ineffective

January 6, 2023January 16, 2023
Thom Nickles
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The bill sponsored by Mark Squilla and Katherine Gilmore Richardson would impose massive costs on city residence without adding much to anyone’s safety.

by Thom Nickels

State Politics

Gina Diorio: After Johnny Doc’s fall, which Pennsylvania politicians are honest?

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021
Gina Diorio
5

A labor leader and Democratic kingmaker bought a seat on Philadelphia’s city council for $70,000 a year. With millions of dollars in other contributions, what else did Johnny Doc’s largesse buy in Pennsylvania?
By Gina Diorio

B+L Investigates

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

June 10, 2020June 30, 2021
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, 2020April 19, 2021
Jenny DeHuff
1

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, 2020April 19, 2021
Kyle Sammin
2

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, 2020April 19, 2021
Logan Chipkin
1

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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