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QUESTION THE PARKING AUTHORITY: Guv Orders Audit Of ‘Skyrocketing Costs’ & ‘Excessive Salaries’
Gov. Rendell yesterday urged City Controller Alan Butkovitz to immediately begin a comprehensive audit of the Philadelphia Parking Authority. “Recent press accounts of skyrocketing expenses, bloated payrolls, excessive salaries, and parking-garage mismanagement suggest that the internal fiscal and management controls expected by Act 94 are not in place,” Rendell’s letter read, citing the law that gives the state-run agency the power to enforce Philadelphia’s parking regulations. Rendell asked the controller’s office to commence a “fiscal and performance audit” of the agency. Butkovitz said it appeared the governor was looking for a top-to-bottom review of the authority, which he called “an […]
Get Out Of That Mothership And Fight Like A Man!
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO: Led Zeppelin Mothership BY ED KING ROCK EXPERT The other day I was driving around with my oldest son when Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times, Bad Times” came on the radio. I cranked it up — and then cranked it up further as the solo approached. I tried to square my jaw like Bill Cowher’s and show the boy what it means to be alone, not to care what the neighbors say. Little did I know the song was probably programmed to play at that particular time on that particular Classic Rock station to celebrate the […]
TONITE: Live & Direct From The Nutter Victory Party
Tune in around 8 PM. It will probably look a lot like this…
MAILBAG: You Be The Judge
The following letters came in response to our publication of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s voters guide, which you can see by CLICKING HERE DEAR PHAWKER, No one every really knows where these come from, and have no idea if they can trust them, so let me at least tell you, as a Phawker reader and practicing trial attorney, that I’ve personally seen Bernstein, DiVito, Herron, Jones, and Erdos in action and I recommend all of them for retention. Just my $.02. Now you have another unsourced opinion to inform your choices. Max Kennerly, ESQ * DEAR PHAWKER So the Phila. […]
KILLADELPHIA: 4 More Dead Since U Went To Bed
BY CHRISTINE OLLEY OF THE DAILY NEWS A South Philadelphia man was riddled with bullets and killed early yesterday when four armed gunman stormed in his front door. Homicide Sgt. William Gallagher said the 25-year-old victim was shot twice in the chest, once in the head, and once in the back shortly before 1 a.m. in his house, on 30th Street near McKean. Gallagher said the intruders escaped with some money and other items. In another shooting, an unidentified man was wounded in the chest at G Street and Allegheny Avenue, in Kensington, shortly before noon yesterday. He was in […]
WORTH REPEATING: It’s Hard To Be A Democrat
It’s hard when you watch a debate and decide that in the end you’re probably going to throw your vote away in the primary and vote for someone who doesn’t have a chance, like Dennis Kucinich. I mean, look at them, look at the front runners: Hillary Clinton, who can’t help being Hillary Clinton; Barack Obama, who was a disappointment from the beginning and whose new-found attack mode is as dispiriting as his low energy level used to be; John Edwards, whom I am afraid I will never be able to think of again (after this week’s Peggy Noonan column […]
ENDORSEMENT: Why We Still Like Mike
Because he is The One to lead us out of the matrix of our own bullshit. Michael Nutter has got game: he speaks in complete paragraphs, with subsections A., B., and C. and attendant footnotes, which also have their own subsections A., B., and C. He has run a campaign of ideas — smart, principled, and aspirational — for solving just about every problem this city faces, while his opponents have offered the usual empty sloganeering, racial semaphore and coded entreaties to their respective bases. If that makes you a wonk or a nerd — well, you can call us […]
HEAR YE: Led Zeppelin Mothership
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO!
LED ZEPPELIN: Stairway To Heaven
During the course of our hectic day, we here at Phawker have found it highly therapeutic to pause for eight minutes and two seconds while staring at this pretty picture with the volume cranked. But that’s just us…and, well, 752,314 other people on Earth.
BREAKING: Philly Gets Its Man, er, Men
Looks like Mike Nutter’s about to be upstaged on his own Election Day — but we have a feeling he won’t mind. In fact, it might be a good diversion from the long, soggy hours before the polls close at 8 p.m. Suspected cop killer John “Jordan” Lewis may have been arrested in Miami rescue mission at around 7 a.m. Sounds like the dumb kid stayed there Monday night, and someone recognized him shortly after the Miami news began running his photo this morning. Assuming it’s him, we’ll just say we’re thankful nobody else got hurt. And maybe we’ll hope […]