Children in Poverty, Library closings Publish at Scribd or explore others: Activism Politics children child this map was provided by Mr. Luigi at Young Philly Politics. Please note that the darker the area, the higher the rate of child poverty: 41.57% or more. Also note that all but two of the libra...

I’ve been saying for years that Harry Reid is corrupt, a mole, a crook, a stooge for the GOP. Today, Harry openly admits that he thinks Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican convicted of corruption, shouldn’t do jail time: The Majority Leader thinks former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens shouldn...

Via ellen in comments, just what we need: the irrelevant Karen Heller in the irrelevant Philadelphia Inquirer defending the Mayor: Now, what if the problem is critical? Immediately, you would cut spending. This is precisely what Mayor Nutter is trying to do. In November, he announced that the city f...

The saga of the arrogant fool continues: Mayor Nutter, responding this morning to a judge’s refusal to overturn her order blocking the city from closing 11 branch libraries, praised her and pounded the seven library plaintiffs and three City Council members who won that legal victory last week...

On Saturday, I posted some good habits for success in 2009.  I probably should make editing my blog posts a habit as well.  If I did, I wouldn’t create posts that run well over a thousand words and need to be broken into multiple parts.  It’s never too early to start working! Good hab...

Mayor Literacy wants to punish Philadelphia for daring to stand up against his needless permanent library closings: Nutter, who had planned to close the branches Dec. 31 to help close a $1 billion budget gap over the next five years, said that keeping the branches open would mean reduced service acr...

I am no expert on Israel issues, but I do know enough about common sense to know that you can’t defeat an entrenched popular movement like Hamas by bombing the shit out of that movement’s base. That’s doubly true when, like Hamas, the movement has gained electoral legitimacy throug...

Always be closing: In Ohio. Akron, Ohio — The final curtain falls on Carousel Dinner Theatre Saturday night when the Rubber City institution closes after 35 years of serving musicals and prime rib to hundreds of thousands of Northeast Ohioans hungry for live entertainment. The Carousel, the Cl...

I’m writing this in bed, at 6:30 a.m. on January 1st - which makes this blog post my first official act of 2009. Seems like a pretty good time to think about goals and habits for 2009. Of course it’s important to set ambitious, yet reachable goals. But we’re never going to reach th...

In Los Angeles, where the school district ends the hallowed tradition of torturing school children by forcing them to sit through plays: When the school board was forced to slash almost $400 million from this year's budget because the district received less than expected in state funds, it kept most...