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Fetterman, like in our interview, sometimes struggles with finding the right transition words, but he clearly understands the questions and knows what his answers and values are.
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I met with John Fetterman before his stroke and I met with him today. He’s never been Pete Buttigieg, a guy who comes up with perfect soundbites on the fly. Both Malcolm and Conor were better at that. It might have mattered to me, but voters didn’t care. They wanted Fetterman.
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I think people are in denial about how normalized reckless driving is and how much legal and cultural change we need to end it. You don't have to be a cyclist or a walkable cities fan to recognize reality.
the fact no one even trys to move out the way is insane
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Look you might feel mean in the moment but you can't let a two year old boss your family around like this through tantrums. It isn't gentle parenting or affirming parenting, it is just going to make everyone miserable.
I talked my wife into going on a date at a swanky restaurant tonight and it was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done.
- Our two-year-old with anger-control issues refused to stay with the babysitter, so we had to take her with us.
- She also demanded that her older sister come with
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This is how you know the economy is good. The layoff specialists are getting laid off.
Wow.
McKinsey are offering staff 9 months full pay, career coaching & CV help if they agree to spend the time job hunting to leave the company, in a bid to reduce headcount amid a huge downturn.
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Sometimes people who don't like YIMBYs will say things like "you just want to be able to walk home from the bar" as if that's not exactly what anyone who likes to go out and drink at bars should be trying to do.
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The fact that students with free passes are also turnstile jumping gives the game away. It has nothing to do with ability to pay, people have just decided it is cool and right.
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If you really want people at minimum wage to be able to afford a two bedroom apartment you would need to build like 25 million new units. Boosting pay would not be effective because people would be bidding on the same exact stock.
There is not a single state in America where you can afford a two-bedroom apartment while earning the minimum wage.
Something is wrong with this picture.
No more excuses. Tax billionaires, raise the minimum wage, build more affordable housing.
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After his stroke, it takes him a couple extra seconds to make sure he heard you correctly and find his words, but his mind clearly works just as well as it did earlier this year. His stroke did not impede his ability to provide answers, and his answers weren’t less clear.
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Poor people pay fares because they rely on public transit and actually have an interest in it succeeding. People who don't pay fares do so because they are entitled and selfish, not because they are poor.
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Fetterman knows his values and can articulate them. That’s ultimately the job of a US senator. There’s no reason he can’t do that, as long as he continues to listen to his doctors.
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@mnolangray
I just posted that one today as well! What an illustration of how hard it is for many Americans to even conceive of a different way of living.
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American macho culture, the heart of both the road rage and the fact that this upper-middle class professional feels the need to commute armed.
Samuel Gomez had been in downtown Portland all of four hours when he took this chilling photo of a financier who had just fatally shot a stranger during a road rage episode.
Seconds later: The driver shot Gomez.
@rogoway
’s surreal story & interview:
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They don’t have the pizazz that we love as political journalists. We tend to love candidates who amaze us with rhetorical dexterity, but that was never really part of Fetterman’s appeal. I don’t think that it is fair to hold his need for closed captioning against him.
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This program is multiple times more expensive than simply hiring more drivers and paying them more.
Forget school streets, Philadelphia school district is once again encouraging parents to drive this year with 3,000 dollar subsidy
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The idea that people skip fares because they don't have the cash isn't supported by any evidence.
People skip fares because they are entitled jerks. Period. That's why so many fare evaders are also smoking and assaulting people on transit.
Because if they don’t have $2.50 - $5 they’ll definitely have $100 for the fine, right?
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Urbanists: Young people want dense, walkable cities!
Voices of this generation, offered the chance to express their fantasies, desires, and self-reflections, sincerely, ironically, or otherwise: Actually... 📷🧵
Olivia Rodrigo, "Drivers License"
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It is because people are going from ~5,000 steps a day to ~20,000.
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Rosa Parks was literally chosen by civil rights leaders because they thought that white people would like her and that this would garner greater support got her cause. The idea of activism without persuasion is inherently authoritarian, you are imposing on others for no goal.
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Imo if guns weren't such a consistent part of the calculus there's a lot of people who might consider intervening in events like this. Guns make us overly reliant on police for safety and enforcing the basic rules of public decency.
Purse-snatching bully punches woman, 68, in face and down NYC church stairs — then takes her car while as she lies in agony
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This is exactly what happens when we pretend negligence is accidental and killing people from behind the wheel doesn't matter.
Sean Higgins tried to pass a car on the left, got mad when the next SUV tried to block him from merging in, tried to pass it on the right, and hit their bikes. 5 to 6 beers is undoubtedly a lie. I am *seething* watching him sigh like that because the judge won't let him go home
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Bosa turned his whole squad into election deniers.
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Fetterman is talking to the PennLive Editorial Board now, they are streaming it.
Fetterman’s interview with the PennLive editorial board is currently being livestreamed.
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It is amazing that a highway collapsed, and no one expects to hear from our mayor today.
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You really can’t trust any red lights anymore as a pedestrian. Unless there is auto traffic traveling the same direction as you, someone will try to run it.
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In fact I specifically remember many of the exact people complaining about how expensive everything is posting about how they'd pay $5 for a mcdouble if that's what if took to get folks to $15/hr.
Everyone wants 2009 prices for food service
Nobody wants 2009 wages for food service workers
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Ellen Greenberg died in 2011. The investigation was handled by the Philadelphia Police. Shapiro became AG in 2016, five years after Greenberg's death & after the case had already been ruled a suicide. It is so telling that instead of making fair critiques, they go for tin foil.
According to CBS News, one of Kamala Harris' likely VP picks, Josh Shapiro, may have covered up the murder of a 27 year old Pennsylvania school teacher.
Shapiro calls it a suicide, even as medical examiners say wounds occurred after Ellen Greenberg's death, and 10 of the 20 stab
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I'm not this type of guy at all, nowhere close to it, but it might make sense to just nationalize the rails. These rail companies don't seem to offer very much value, and in fact their ideas have made rail worse.
I'm calling on Congress to pass legislation immediately to adopt the Tentative Agreement between railroad workers and operators.
Let me be clear: a rail shutdown would devastate our economy. Without freight rail, many U.S. industries would shut down.
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One of the reasons I prefer transit cities to car oriented ones is because they alleviate that tension.
Any car oriented place is eventually going to reach a breaking point where residents resent growth. Traffic and parking become major quality of life hurdles.
The tension between growth and gentrification as expressed in two murals
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It is crazy to me that people are dumping on AOC for this when she was absolutely correct. No one likes to work with selfish and abrasive people, and if a candidate for executive office surrounds themselves with people like that of course it will generate resentment!
People on the left are rolling their eyes at this, but Bernie's own campaign clearly understood that its online surrogates like David and Bri were a problem.
Personally, I realized that one day after getting into a Twitter fight with Bri. A couple hours later...
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Nobody goes to Philadelphia anymore, it's too busy.
Unbelievable. 76 West over an HOUR delay due to construction only 1 Lane at Montgomery Drive. It’s 915pm. Wonder why no one comes into the city for dinner anymore??
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This is one of the most frustrating things about Philadelphia. It doesn't matter how many times residents vote for good things like traffic calming or more trees. Once one influential person gets annoyed, these things get eliminate with zero process or notification.
These steep speed humps in a NW Philly school zone were extremely effective at slowing drivers, so for some reason the Streets Dept is now taking them out.
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Honestly wild that you’d get to the garden from Philly any other way. Nothing more convenient.
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On the contrary, before planning, American development patterns hewed closer to British ones. Phoenix style development is what you get with planning.
There is a reason why our cities don't look like Phoenix, Arizona, and why we still have something we call the countryside.
Planning laws.
Liz Truss, who has no electoral mandate, wants to sweep them away.
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Also while we don't do it often, when we do go out with our kids we don't bring toys with us. We don't have iPads for them. Sometimes it isn't easy but it is practice. There isn't a magic age where they suddenly figure out how to behave at dinner. They need to practice.
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Any city that is serious about tackling homelessness and related challenges needs to consider SROs. Even just a door that they can lock can convince many to give up street living and provide an address needed for work, benefits, and more.
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Looks like you can actually promptly arrest these guys
BREAKING: Booking photo Sean Higgins, 43, of Woodstown, NJ charged with two counts of death by auto of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau.
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This is one of the best TV news segments on traffic safety I've ever seen. Major kudos for giving the vox populi interviews to pedestrians instead of motorists, something tv news almost never does.
Automated speed enforcement reduces speeding and saves lives. We know this.
I’m looking forward to working with my
@phlcouncil
colleagues to identify the roadways that need this life saving technology the most in Philadelphia.
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Mastriano legal advisor approvingly spreading white nationalist talking points about what is clearly the top issue in Pennsylvania, pop stars briefly playing historic flutes.
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This is exactly why regulations should exist. These folks are all making a choice they believe is in their best interest, but the cumulative effect is less safe roads for everyone. And of course not everyone can afford these behemoths.
Ignore this at your own risk.
Do not put your family in a small car.
Yesterday, my wife was driving my son to school and an oncoming delivery truck crossed the center lane and hit her head on — the driver had a seizure was going 40 mph.
I was on my way to work in a separate
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Whole area at a standstill thanks to this oversized truck.
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If SEPTA can spend $2 billion for 9,000 people to take KOP rail it can spend $3 billion to 10x that number to take the Boulevard subway. This is a great example of a false economy.
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It is time for Gov Shapiro and especially his boosters in elected office to turn their attention back to Pennsylvania. We need solutions for septa, more progress on education spending, and reforms at penndot.
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The phenomenon of "wanting to live in a college town" and at the same time "wanting to ban students" at the same time has some pretty bad consequences.
90% of workers in State College commute by car - an arrangement incompatible with our climate reality.
But Borough Council treats parking, “neighborhood character” and the exclusion of students as sacrosanct
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I was surprised by the Michelin Guide folks calling Philadelphia America's Frenchest city. Then I saw this quote and it all made sense.
"French people ... we like to hate ourselves, we always complain about France, but we won’t let other people complain about France"
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Leniency to drunk drivers is actually cruelty. They need to learn their lesson before it is too late.
He was drunk driving around NC when he was at Fort Bragg and they just…kept promoting him!
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I didn’t realize Jeffrey Lord was on their Board, he’s bringing up the 94 fraud case and Ozzie Myers (who I and
@SethBluestein
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I don't condone bringing weapons onto septa but I understand exactly why this woman was pushed to act like this. The people who smoke are mostly very angry very aggressive men. They don't like even polite requests to stop. Frankly we should go back to arresting them.
What a septa story today. Woman on the el tells man to stop smoking, he punches her and then she stabs him.
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Taylor Swift fans are embracing transit. Tough Twitter truck guys are still too scared.
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@wanyeburkett
The movie theater/gaming cave versions make a lot more sense to me, because basements are actually great spots for those two activities.
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The police officer hanging out in his cruiser while a mom is attacked and threatened with a gun is a terrible look for the department. I hear constantly from residents that they don't believe that the police want to do their jobs, footage like that doesn't help.
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Can confirm that Michael Nutter is considering the mayoral race. He's been critical of the field for months. He rates his second term as some of the best years the city has had in recent times. And in a crowded field, he'd have a huge name recognition advantage.
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A little break here to make a personal announcement. This is my last week at the Inquirer until August. I plan on going private and posting less on here during that time as well.
Why the pause? My family is expanding, another little boy is due just about any day now.
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Who arrives 45 minutes early for a train?
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For decades, people in places like Buckingham have complained about subsidizing Philadelphia. In reality, there's no amount of wage tax revenue that can make up for the fact that these places export their problems to our city. Miles Pfeffer is only a reminder of this.
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Rittenhouse Square going to be Stephen Starr Epcot
Stephen Starr has approval from the Center City Residents’ Association for what he calls an “Italian version of Parc,” his popular restaurant, on the former site of the Barnes & Noble bookstore on the north side of Rittenhouse Square.
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Mr. Eskin won't have to worry about traffic and parking in center city because he's banned for trying to kiss staff.
This may be the worst decision of this
@PhillyMayor
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@Parkerlawyer
The fact that not one of them even seemed to notice that she was counting her pennies is a bad sign to begin with.
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Governor Shapiro is now unable to post without dozens of people demanding that he fund septa.
To put it very bluntly, there's very little chance he can win a contested democratic primary for POTUS if he's known as the guy who let one of America's biggest transit systems wither.
Today, I’m announcing that my Administration is launching a first-in-the-nation Generative AI pilot for Commonwealth employees with
@OpenAI
.
Generative AI is here and impacting our daily lives now — and we're harnessing its benefits while mitigating its potential risks.
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Enough is enough.
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A sitting US Senator threatens to undermine a nearly 80 year successful strategic alliance because it is incomprehensible to him that someone could be held accountable for their actions behind the wheel.
Let’s face it,
@kishida230
, you’ve got a really good security arrangement with the United States, and you’ve had the luxury of not having that arrangement discussed or seriously questioned in Congress for a long time. That’s about to change.
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Notice how there's never any conversation about smoking on regional or commuter rail trains. Because it doesn't happen. Very strange to see that some people are opposed to subway riders having the experience commuter rail riders take for granted.
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That puppet resemble… a lot of other things more than it resembles fetterman.
Happening now: Progressive Jewish groups and other pro-Palestine demonstrators in Philly descend on U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s office for second week in a row to demand a ceasefire in Gaza — this time shutting down Chestnut Street and deploying an enormous Fetterman puppet.
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Does the highway system make money? Do small airports across america turn a profit?
PERRY, who is pushing amendment to cut funding to Amtrak, brushes off concerns by New York Rs said they would not support those cuts in transportation approps bill.
“It doesn’t make any money. We’ve got to stop funding things that don’t make any money.”
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Seems like a great argument for making Open Streets on Sundays permanent.
As Center City shoppers shift from office workers to downtown residents, Sunday sees retail bonanza
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Crashes like this make it abundantly clear where 99.99% of the burden for traffic safety belongs.
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We might need to switch to a proof of payment system considering current behavior.
While some people criticize PoP for allowing more evasion, what it does do is make evasion invisible to ordinary riders...except when someone is subject to an enforcement action.
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People love searching for a nutrition angle to this because cutting out "seed oils" or "processed foods" is a lot easier of a lifestyle adjustment then trying to switch to a more active lifestyle.
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Jersey Mike's is the Dr. Oz of regional sandwich shops.
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Don't listen to the naysayers about center city, or allow isolated incidents to create the wrong impression.
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Our traffic deaths rate is twice that of New York and Boston. Street safety may be a joke to Bob Brady, but it is a serious problem in Philadelphia.
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You could easily fit two normal sized cars here, but instead we've got one big one. We need to start charging people who drive these extra for their parking permits.
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A sad portion of American adults have convinced themselves that speed limits and tickets for speeding are just a racket.
Just heard a guy complaining about the state of things in New York City, he said “they wanna give you tickets for driving too fast.” I have never heard anyone cut to the core of our societal ills so insightfully in all my life.
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Smoking pot on septa at 9am on a Tuesday is loser behavior.
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These people view Philadelphia as a containment zone. Next month, many of them will descend on the city for St. Patrick's Day, and they'll leave evidence of themselves all over our streets. Then they'll vote to defund our schools and call the city a cesspool.
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Fetterman knows what his values are and is capable of communicating them.
The same cannot be said for his opponent, Mehmet Oz, a man wholly unprepared to be Pennsylvania’s U.S. senator.
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We desperately need to increase penalties and enforcement of fake, obscured, and missing plates. Zero tolerance. Your car should be impounded and the owner forced to sign a form surrendering their vehicle if they are caught doing it again.
Police are looking for "a white sedan with no tags" after this shooting by a school.
Ski masks & missing/fake tags are used by criminals to evade detection when committing crimes. Addressing the misuse of both would help on the margin.
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The benefits of legalizing boarding houses are plentiful. It would help ensure residents of grey-market rooming houses are living in properties that are safe and up to code, provide affordable housing to those at the lowest wages, & give renters options.
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I'm sure all these patrons are going to go home and think to themselves, "what we really need is to deemphasize policing and focus on restorative justice."
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1. This is incredible and Shapiro should be proud when completed.
2. I would love to see this level of urgency applied to other problems.
Today, I can state with confidence:
We will have I-95 open within the next two weeks.
We are going to get traffic moving again — thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our incredible union trade workers and our all hands on deck approach.
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I've been noticing this work a lot more recently. It would be tragic to institute devastating cuts just as septa is starting to make progress in reestablishing pre pandemic standards across the system.
Last night while we were sleeping this crew shoveled and bagged trash, collected and contained sharp objects, and scraped and swept mud and debris from the track area on the Broad Street Line [B].
#ISEPTAPHILLY
#waytogo
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@Kjavaruski
McKinsey thrives during bad economic times and struggles during good times. No one hires consultants when their bottom line is increasing.
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Gov. Shapiro deserves the major kudos and buzz he's received.
Still, we have to ask. Why can't we get problems like Kensington's drug markets, the cracking El cars, or asbestos-infested schools like Frankford fixed as well?
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Always learn so much about the city from the backseat of my limo.
I’m here in Kensington, Philadelphia to investigate the fentanyl and tranq crisis. This is the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen in my country.
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This removes the "edgy and cool rebel" factor from skipping fares. It also means honest riders don't feel scammed. Any time you notice evasion it'll be because someone is getting detained.
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Philadelphia is in a weird spot where local Democrats have successfully captured nearly the entire region...but without a majority in both chambers. So there are almost no Republicans who care about Philadelphia left and the GOP still has veto power over state policy.
Philadelphia has the least influential delegation of any large city to their state legislature
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The 30% decline in homicide is welcome enough news on its own, but I just got it confirmed that the numbers for shootings victims are even more drastic, a 43% decrease! That's wonderful news for our city.
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And yes, we can change culture by changing laws. That's exactly how cultural change works.
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This is really awful news. Rest in peace Josh.
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There's no reason why we should go the battery route over the trolleybus route for electrification. Modern trolleybuses can go off track for significant distances, they are a proven technology. The battery buses have not been a good experience for us.
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Why is septa so anemic? Because while other regions fund their transit systems to the tune of $70/resident, septa gets around $17. That's hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
@jack_perrotta
@CouncilmemberJG
$1.3B is anemic for a system the size of SEPTA. In DC Metro's 2024 fiscal year, we're managing to provide good service like what SEPTA should probably be seeing, and we get $2.4B for operations, running a fairly similar size system.
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What in the world is going on with Mayor Parker? Her public calendar is empty so she’s got plenty of time.
This is how the Mayor’s office chose to treat the voices of 6,000 constituents.
Despite having an appointment, we had to beg our way upstairs in City Hall and were met with silent, expressionless staffers in the hallway. We left the petitions on a table.
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I'm just saying if Josh Shapiro wants to keep up with the other ambitious Dems he's gotta have a track record of building houses and train lines.
“Building more of every kind of housing — single family homes, apartments and mixed-use buildings — will expand supply and lower costs.”
-
@GovWhitmer
(D-MI)
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It is not a healthy dynamic for our city and region that so many people have this cartoonish impression of what center city and septa are like. I criticize both regularly but no one should be afraid of a ride on the fox chase line.
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