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Tag: Mark Squilla

Nonprofit launches to fight City Hall on no-stop bike lanes

February 7, 2025 Stu Bykofsky 6 Comments

The other shoe has dropped, with an all-too-predictable thud, on city streets. In order to patch its idiotic law that…

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Posted in: Bicycle Lanes, Uncategorized Filed under: Bicycle Coalition, Cherelle Parker, FOPS, Kenyatta Johnson, Mark Squilla, Michael Nutter

The bike testimony City Council did not hear

October 24, 2024 Stu Bykofsky 8 Comments

Locked out, that’s what I was Thursday morning, locked out. Locked out of what, you ask? Out of the City…

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Posted in: Culture Filed under: Bike lanes, City Council, Mark Squilla, Sixers Arena

No stopping in bike lanes? Are you crazy, Kenyatta?

September 24, 2024 Stu Bykofsky 18 Comments

Well, they are at it again, pinheads proposing legislation that would do minimum good with maximum harm. Even for Philly,…

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Posted in: Bicycle Lanes, Uncategorized Filed under: Jamie Gauthier, Kenyatta Johnson, Mark Squilla

Fire sprinkler retrofit is high cost, low benefit

November 19, 2023 Stu Bykofsky 27 Comments

What we have here is a solution in pursuit of a problem. A bill in a City Council committee would…

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Posted in: Fire Safety, Uncategorized Filed under: Andre Del Valle, David Kurasz, Dennis Merrigan, Mark Squilla

Philly’s Palestinians organize a Kristallnacht

November 7, 2023 Stu Bykofsky 15 Comments

Thursday will be the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, during which the Nazis went on…

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Posted in: Anti-Semitism, Uncategorized Filed under: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Mark Squilla, Mayor Jim Kenney, Philly Palestine Coalition

Welcome to “Jerry Blavat Way”

June 29, 2023 Stu Bykofsky 11 Comments

Legendary DJ Jerry Blavat entered the gates of heaven in January at 82. Down on earth Wednesday night, Philadelphia named…

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Posted in: Culture, Uncategorized Filed under: Jerry Blavat, Jim Kenney, Keely Stahl, Mark Squilla

The DOJ, down and dirty

March 2, 2022 Stu Bykofsky 5 Comments

Is the Department of Justice playing Philadelphians dirty, as was claimed Wednesday afternoon? More on that in a moment. Federal…

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Posted in: Drugs, Uncategorized Filed under: ”Safe” injection sites, David Oh, Department of Justice, Mark Squilla

What will Henri David do without Halloween?

October 30, 2020 Stu Bykofsky 11 Comments

Saturday is Halloween, and for the first time since 1968 it will happen in Philadelphia without a major party hosted…

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Posted in: Halloween, Uncategorized Filed under: Henri David, Mark Squilla

Return of the horseless carriage

September 4, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 10 Comments

The familiar clippety-clop of horseshoes on asphalt in Society Hill could become a thing of the past. Years of protests…

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Posted in: Culture Filed under: Horse-drawn carriages, Mark Squilla

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