Insider: Take It From an NTI Mastermind — Kenney’s Parks Plan Is Flawed
McCalla: There are echoes of John Street’s dubious initiative in Kenney’s proposal.
Insider: Kenney Breaks Most Important Promise to Black Voters
McCalla: The new mayor has abandoned his campaign pledge to end stop-and-frisk.
Insider: A Golden Parachute for City Pols
McCalla: Wilson Goode was voted out of his gig on Council. But taxpayers will continue to pay his salary. Sadly, this is not unusual.
Insider: Darrell Clarke Won His School District Power Play
McCalla: But what good does it do the kids?
Black Leaders Roll Over for Casino Deal
McCalla: Mayor Nutter, the NAACP, and the Black Clergy are looking past racial problems at the Cordish Companies.
Sugar Daddy Wanted
McCalla: Chaka Fattah’s indictment means Curtis Jones Jr., Cindy Bass and Blondell Reynolds Brown need to make powerful new friends.
The Affordable Housing-Industrial Complex
Opinion: These “affordable” homes are built at exorbitant cost.
Insider: Black Pols Will “Rue the Day” They Backed Kenney
Black elected officials denied the leading black mayoral candidate.
Inside Take: To Win the Democratic Party’s Endorsement, Pay and Pay Again
McCalla: The “heinous and heroic” alike seek party endorsements, but only the ones willing to cough up street money are anointed.
Inside Take: When Endorsements Go Horribly Wrong
McCalla: Can Jim Kenney take help from supporters of a controversial council candidate and not get dirty?
Why Would Black Pols Endorse a White Mayoral Candidate?
A Citified insider has some theories.
Inside Take: This Party (Still) Sucks
McCalla: How the GOP’s incompetence invites corruption and undermines Philadelphia.
Inside Take: City Hall Has Long Coddled Big Business
And somehow CEOs still think they don’t have enough influence?
