Tag: Philadelphia
This One Really Pisses Me Off (Part II)
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 01:39:40 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
I originally wasn't going to write this up as my bile rises everytime I see or hear the name Danieal Kelly. Not that Kelly was a bad person; she was a 14-year-old kid who had the bad luck to be born with cerebral palsy and a pair of bottom feeders for parents. Danieal is beyond anyone's help now and, apparently, was beneath the concern of anyone who should have given a shit about her while she was alive. She died two years ago, starved to death in a home where her mother oversaw her "care." She died as a city agency, which is charged with protecting people like Danieal, looked the other way and falsified records that she was receiving sufficient family care. Danieal Kelly didn't have to die, but she did, and it should worry everyone who reads about her.
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Stopping Terrorism, One Can Of Spray Paint At A Time
thefadd.
Posted to Legal on Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 07:55:22 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Would you want to know what was going on inside this building? When Philadelphia police recently found a newly placed surveillance camera spray painted into decrepitude, this building's white residents were fingered by black locals so cops paid a visit one morning.
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Yo, That's No Painting -- That's An Historic Object
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Sun Dec 03, 2006 at 07:03:44 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
When is a piece of art more than a piece of art? When does your property become something you can't sell? These questions are playing themselves out right now in Philadelphia where one Philadelphia institution is fighting another Philadelphia institution over the right to sell a painting.
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Murder, What Murder? Nothing To See But Us Innkeepers Playing Ostrich.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sat Nov 11, 2006 at 08:01:23 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Murder is a commonplace on the streets of Philadelphia this year. With 320 people already murdered and two full months left to go this year, the city looks to be on track to eclipse last year's total of 377 murders. The violence is so awful and the body count so constant that most of the media has reported on this phenomenon of a city killing itself with a vengeance. The nightly newscast carries the names of the latest victims with the locations of their seemingly senseless deaths. City officials have called for an end to the violence. Community activists have asked for an end to gun sales. Thus far, the guns keep being sold to those ready to use them and the violence continues. But, despite all of the facts being basically everywhere, one organization in Philly has a novel approach to dealing with it, as the hotel association counsels acting like it doesn't exist.
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