Results tagged “pennpraxis”

I know it's difficult to imagine wanting to walk/jog/bike/blade/streak along the Delaware River on a snowy morning like this one, but bare with Nutter Butter for one minute because he kinda made a big announcement yesterday. Fresh off giving the old Penn's Landing Corporation a good spanking for its lethargy and corruption, Nutter called a press conference on Sunday to announce the first major public space project in the implementation of the PennPraxis Civic Vision for the Central Delaware.

Some of you may have read the article in last Friday's Inquirer by Inga Saffron, the best/only reporter who covers planning and design issues in the mainstream media, about the Mayors' Institute on City Design. MICD is essentially an annual conference on city design only open to U.S. mayors in which design professionals teach top city officials about the value of planning and design in an informal and confidential setting. Mayors can rub elbows, trade secrets, and exchange valuable knowledge in a safe space where they don't have to worry about parsing their words.

It takes an awfully dysfunctional organization to make the Mayor of Philadelphia blush. But it happened this past Friday morning, when Michael Nutter disassembled yet another corrupt combination of former mayoral appointees, this time the board of directors of the Penn's Landing Corporation (PLC). After apologizing for his tardiness, he dryly noted, "Since the board has not had a meeting in more than two years, what's another 10 or 15 minutes?"

Philly as a "festering spiritual slum?" We can see that more than as "the most genuinely Christian movement in America," but we’re sitting over here.

It should never be 74 degrees when you leave for work in the morning. Ever.

The Attorney General's Office has accused Former State Rep. Frank LaGrotta of giving his relatives fake jobs in order to pay them thousands in taxpayer dollars. A cheval-de-frise (an iron-tipped log that's placed in a riverbed along with many others in order to gore the hulls of enemy warships) was recently found at the bottom of the Delaware River at the Sunoco Logistics pier in South Philadelphia. It's a relic from the mid-1770s, and...

The big news this morning in both the Daily News and the Inquirer is that two more Philadelphia police officers were shot last night "as they attempted to serve a warrant in a narcotics investigation in the city's Frankford section." This morning, a 16-year-old male has been arrested in connection with the shooting. The Inquirer has a bit of a preview of the major policy report PennPraxis will be unveiling tonight about the development...