An open letter to Mayor Nutter about Occupy Philadelphia
Dear Mayor Nutter,In the last few months, the Occupy Movement, of which Occupy Philadelphia has been an important part, has had a dramatic impact on politics in America. At a time when most Democratic...
View ArticleAs Joshua takes power let's thank the Moses of Montgomery County Democrats
On Wednesday, Josh Shapiro and Leslie Richards will take office as Montgomery County Commissioners after winning the most important political race in the state in November. As you must know, this will...
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Fighting for Our Health
During the 18 months of the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) campaign in support of what became the Affordable Care Act, I gave over a hundred speeches to thousands of activists who were working us...
View ArticleWe need transparency in criticism as well as budgeting
Some critics of Mayor Michael Nutter are calling him out for hiding a real estate tax in his new budget since the budget proposes that after the new market based system of setting property values is...
View ArticleWhy is this mandate different from all other mandates?
One of the central concerns that conservatives have about the individual mandate is that it would lead to unlimited federal authority over our individual lives. If Congress can require us to purchase...
View ArticleCohen and Josephs for State Representative
There are some difficult State Representative races for progressives in the city this year. In two of them, long time advocates of progressive causes, Babette Josephs in the 182nd and Mark Cohen in the...
View ArticleWill the Mayor lead a movement to save our schools?
Michael Nutter talked a great deal about education during his reelection campaign. His inaugural speech focused on education. He said he wanted to take on responsibility for the schools.But today the...
View ArticleThe silence is deafening--our broken politics and the schools
Under tremendous financial pressure that is the result of recession and drastic cutbacks in funding from Harrisburg, the SRC is about to blow up our school system. The SRC plan reshuffles the chairs on...
View ArticleWhat's the rush? Save the Cohen wage tax rebate!
One of the last accomplishments of long time progressive Councilmember David Cohen—a rebate on the wage tax for those with low incomes—may be repealed tomorrow. It shouldn’t be.There are good policy...
View ArticleAsk Allyson Schwartz to run for Governor
From Marc Stier at LargeBarack Obama is back in office and moving in a liberal direction. So now it’s time to think ahead about building progressive power. The most important thing we can do in...
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