PPA officers please FEAST on Amazon until you force them to switch to cargo bikes

It’s been 10 years now since the last time I needed to check my bank account to figure out how much gas I could afford to put in the car on any particular day but every once in a while I still instinctively pull out my phone to check when I’m standing at the pump.

Congress passed the mental health parity act to ensure that mental health clinicians are paid at equal levels as providers of physical healthcare. Fast forward 20 years and therapists are still treated as second class clinicians when it comes to payment rates. www.inquirer.com/health/counc...

Wild that half the streets in center city were closed this morning with zero notice

Good to see whyy.org/articles/phi...

The result of decades of the highest city biz taxes in the nation “(Only one [!!] of our 10 largest employers pays any business taxes; the rest are either government entities or educational/medical institutions.) The result: everyone who lives and works here pays more in taxes than they should.”

Spoiler alert: We’re not even close to the top 20 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca... (🎁)

Pedestrianize something already I’m tired of being envious of *checks notes* Boise and Memphis

*every day

city’s looking real clean today

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

Some people get clobbered when they testify at city council, others get a free pass. Sadly, which category you belong to has a lot more to do with politics than performance. www.inquirer.com/opinion/sher...

“We don’t need more business taxes. We need more businesses that pay taxes.” www.bisnow.com/philadelphia...

Put one of these in Market East and I’ll be there every weekend

There's a whole class of government and quasi-government workers who will always have offices in Center City, who have never experienced the absurdity of reverse commuting and don't understand why it's so detrimental to the City's long term future

You will reverse commute to UCity or Navy Yard or Conshy or KOP or Malvern or Chesterbrook or Wilmington and you'll like it (otherwise you move to the suburbs to have a bearable commute and Philly loses out on everything)

Good on the Mayor for not giving this den of corruption any new budget www.inquirer.com/news/sheriff...

Philly's precipitous decline of biotech VC share despite a huge regional talent pool suggests that the continued decentralization of labs due to high business taxes is a prime contributor. We don't have another industry to save us unlike Seattle!

We can have sort of nice things, I guess, for a very limited time, when the powers at be are sufficiently worried about being embarrassed by our normal state of affairs 🤷‍♀️

“Owners of mobile homes [can't] get a traditional mortgage... So mobile home buyers often [have] had to resort to so-called chattel loans, which typically carry higher interest rates than a traditional mortgage and have fewer legal protections." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/b...

Couldn’t sign this fast enough liftphilly.org/petition

OPINION: “While politicians are happy to grandstand in favor of keeping specific schools open, they are less forthcoming about which schools should be closed instead,” writes The Inquirer Editorial Board.

And the battery pack in an EV Hummer weighs as much as a Nissan Sentra

This one is a 15/10 from a "tax what you want to see less of" perspective

"Crime on BART fell by 41 percent last year." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’m sorry but how does the end of a FIFTY year lease sneak up on you? www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Shoutout to the mayor this is great

Nice work @centercityphila.org centercityphila.org/pressroom/ce...

One thing I’ve learned from following Philly politics for the last decade and a half is that no matter how petty something seems on the surface, the real story is almost always exponentially pettier

Taxpayer-funded clout chasing

To not even be a little proactive and fast-track the LIFT/Driscoll proposal shows a complete lack of concern and understanding from the administration

One out-of-state business challenged the first $100K of revenue BIRT exemption in court, the administration threw up their hands and threw small businesses under the bus, and now we're going to lose a bunch of therapists and FDR park vendors because their city tax burden is insane.

thank god www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/b...

“The seven-level structure, meant to relieve parking pressure for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia workers, was widely seen as an imposition on the Grays Ferry neighborhood,” writes The Inquirer Editorial Board.

Attention: the bridge is CLOSED (complimentary)

Today I passed the nearly-complete Washington Ave connector. Grade-separated bike & walking path. Benches, planters, blossoming trees. Also saw a vid of the new bike/ped swing bridge swinging! It's almost like Philly CAN have nice things. We just need to do this systematically and 25x faster.

I get NOLA and NYC ranking higher than us but Chicago and Houston? Let’s be serious www.foodandwine.com/top-united-s...

This downed F-15 should be an indictment of our military industrial complex. Back when there was real procurement competition, new fighters were coming out once a decade. Clinton created an oligopoly of prime defense contractors and now we have 50-year old jets flying sorties over hostile territory

On Sunday, Philadelphia had equal numbers of homicides and traffic deaths. While the city has seen killings decline by nearly 80% since pandemic-era highs, progress on traffic deaths has been much slower. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

A new Bilal failing I didn't know about:

The Sheriff has been an anachronism for 170 years. When will Philadelphia finally eliminate this office? www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

PECO asking for a thirteen percent rate hike after a ten percent increase last year. The utility commission meetings are going to be a circus

Parked fully on the sidewalk with an “I’d rather be riding public transit” bumper sticker

You could literally build an entire successful city purely from the number of employees/employers who wanted to expand/stay in Philly but backed out because of tax policy

The murder rate’s down 75% and so is the rate of people moving out of the city

It’s great to see one sector of our city doing so well, but it does make you wonder how much faster our other local businesses could grow if they had the same city business tax advantages. www.inquirer.com/health/healt...

how about he lean into some support for SEPTA instead