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TreeMac12 t1_j5tsrkx wrote
Reply to comment by themightychris in How a Philadelphia antiviolence grant improperly funneled $76,000 to city police staffers by PhillyAccount
>If the other 30 are all doing good work
Are they? What is the metric and mechanism for oversight?
TreeMac12 t1_j5q68qg wrote
Reply to comment by Republican_Wet_Dream in Is anyone planning Furnace Party this year? by Republican_Wet_Dream
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Reply to comment by spurius_tadius in Police: Woman shot in the leg while in rideshare vehicle by JBizznass
Violent crime and specifically murders went down almost every year starting in 1994:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate
It might have had something to do with this:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3355/text
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Reply to comment by No_Wolf3071 in Actress Kate Mulgrew visits McGillin’s seeking clarity on the Philly accent by redeyeblink
At McGillan's? Kind of a tourist trap. Be better off at Smegy's.
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Reply to comment by kemmes7 in Good Karma shuts down cafe after saying $17,000 was 'embezzled' from Center City location by MCgrindahFM
This editor wouldn't last 15 minutes at the New York Post :
https://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-critic-vincent-musetto-dies-at-74/
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Reply to comment by dentduv in Just watched the whole street sweepers + leaf blowers thing for the first time…why can’t the city just tow cars that don’t move? by RoverTheMonster
One of the issues is the many food giveaways by church groups each day. The plastic water bottles and styrofoam boxes end up on the street almost immediately. Clogs up the sewars every time it rains.
TreeMac12 t1_j3s69lp wrote
Reply to Just watched the whole street sweepers + leaf blowers thing for the first time…why can’t the city just tow cars that don’t move? by RoverTheMonster
Kensington Avenue should be swept twice per day.
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Reply to comment by towerninja in [New York Times] Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to U.S. Drug Zones by Hoyarugby
Just like no one sells weed anymore except dispensaries
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Reply to comment by towerninja in [New York Times] Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to U.S. Drug Zones by Hoyarugby
That’s naive. Oxycodone and Percocet are legal drugs and they are still sold by armed, illegal drug dealers in McPherson Square. So no, it doesn’t put them out of business “instantly.”
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Reply to Announcement of how opioid settlement money will be spent in Kensington elicits mixed responses from community members by User_Name13
“We’re known as the Disney World for users. If you give free food and a free shower and free needles, why should you ever leave and return home?” Rogers added. “I used to feed 200 people, but I wasn’t helping them. I was enabling them.”
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Reply to comment by PhillyPanda in [New York Times] Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to U.S. Drug Zones by Hoyarugby
If they Narcan them twice, it counts as saving two lives that day. Even if the person dies later that day.
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Reply to comment by CB_700_SC in 470-Unit Festival Pier Redevelopment Underway - Rising Real Estate by ColdJay64
That’s the famous Cohocksink Creek:
“The Cohocksink and its marshlands divided the District of Kensington from the city of Philadelphia and its Northern Liberties. The first settlers were Swedish, predating the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania.”
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Reply to comment by mydogsnameisbuddy in I have a calendar that states a historical event that happened that day, today's event happened in PA. by Yinzerman1992
It was like 50 years ago, so you'd be half-right.
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Reply to comment by Scumandvillany in US sues Conshohocken-based AmerisourceBergen, saying it fueled opioid epidemic | 6abc.com by boundfortrees
“Healthcare and drugs are big employers in the Philadelphia area. It’s not unusual for politicians to have personal ties to drug interests. For example, Gym’s husband, Bret Flaherty, a lawyer, works for AmerisourceBergen.”
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Reply to comment by Ng3me in City Council is more concerned with cars than public transit | Editorial by LurkersWillLurk
Yet they will still endorse every single council member for re-election and one of them for mayor.
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Reply to comment by BrowniesAndMilk1 in Former Center City Burger King will become a thrift store and health-care center by ColdJay64
Famous last words
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Reply to comment by Proper-Code7794 in US sues Conshohocken-based AmerisourceBergen, saying it fueled opioid epidemic | 6abc.com by boundfortrees
They really should imprison some of these corporate execs.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in I hate posting rumors but in this case I will. Asking for information here, not trying to spread falsehoods. Mods, delete if not appropriate. by brk1
> We don't have some extra source of knowledge that the rest of the internet lacks
Some people do.
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Reply to US sues Conshohocken-based AmerisourceBergen, saying it fueled opioid epidemic | 6abc.com by boundfortrees
Helen Gym's husband has his work cut out for him:
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Reply to comment by Character_Macaron133 in Philadelphia mayoral candidates on gentrification: Parker, Gym, and Quiñones Sánchez talk solutions by outerspace29
If everyone was entitled to subsidized housing based on where their family once lived, everyone in South Jersey and Delco with an Italian grandmother would get a free house in South Philly.
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Reply to comment by Character_Macaron133 in Philadelphia mayoral candidates on gentrification: Parker, Gym, and Quiñones Sánchez talk solutions by outerspace29
>the inquirer did a study
You had me until you brought up the Inquirer. They are useless anymore.
Anyone who has lived in Philadelphia more than a few years knows that Fairmount was historically Irish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian. In other words, the whitest people:
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Reply to comment by themightychris in How a Philadelphia antiviolence grant improperly funneled $76,000 to city police staffers by PhillyAccount
>I assure you there are likely many
I assure you there are probably not many.