Justin Bieber is the only lawyer for me

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As a kid, I used to eat at that BK and watched that turn from a giant hole into a giant multi-level parking lot. Seemed like a giant waste to need something like that on Market St, one of the easiest places to catch transit outbound.

A real candidate needs to figure out a middle ground between zero gentrification and constantly pricier $2k+ apartments sprouting up. Like somebody else said, the city needs to figure out how to incentivize developers to not just build luxury bullshit to attract displaced NYC/DC residents.

Figuring out how to keep more middle class college grads in the city should be important, not telling them that "yeah these 10 areas are shitty now and will remain shitty", which basically tells them to take their family building elsewhere, which they do. Funny how so many Temple grads end up starting families... in the suburbs.

>Gyms statement just seems like a buzz word list without substance.

her whole political career is buzz words

Send them to the Sacklers' doorsteps. They haven't faced any consequences for turning millions into addicts.

A judge that gets cases in & out of their docket are deemed successful. Justice and even getting the right person is an afterthought.

Fuck Ronald Reagan. All my homies hate Ronald Reagan.

Since we're not on /r/politics (where you can't dance on graves), I'd love to take a post Taco Bell dump on his.

Shop Rite has Boars Head

Would be nice if there was more than the 2 BJs in the city too

Philly is a prime example where failure at every level leads to a completely broken system. And no I don't only mean politically. I'm talking leadership in city entities, the FOP, Harrisburg, you name it.

I mean... do we really need to keep rehashing this?

Krasner's biggest mistake (of many) is having no Plan B when he didn't get universal buy-in on his plans, along with all the other issues (pissing off co-workers, running off prosecutors with no replacements, never compromising to his original plan).

Not throwing the book at every petty crime would work if PPD could weed out repeat offenders faster, or if arrest warrants were executed at anything but a snail's pace, or if somebody at City Hall figured out how to be proactive vs reactive (reacting to homeless encampments but now it feels like homelessness is worse and more widespread, and nobody is doing a thing).

The Krasner hate crowd isn't 100% wrong, but to think that the city will be fixed if he's gone is silly. Harrisburg (or at least 1/2 of the chamber there) will go back to ignoring the city until it wants to fight some culture war bs again.

Same time as any other election. Spring primary and November general. Will be on the same ballot as mayoral race, plus maybe a ballot measure and a special election if somebody resigns.

Dude is already doing more good than most people on city council.

People are acting like we don’t have a Senate with an average age in the 60s, or that senators have to debate things on the floor. The latter isn’t a thing.

Allegheny County was a 7 point swing in a county with 550k votes. Westmoreland was a 9 point swing in a county with about 175k.

All those rural counties are dark red but Oz didn’t put up many 40 point swings like Trump could. It all adds up.

I keep saying all those 7-10 point swings for Fetterman added up. Same thing he did in the primary.

The 2004 Dem convention speech put him on the map.

Well if he had a stroke earlier he loses to Lamb so…

To be fair it's honestly sounded like he hated the hours for a while. Maybe he'll have an Eskin like role at the station, where he can call in whenever and can host a short show once or twice a week too.

I could do without the luxury apartments, especially the idiots who built right next to the river (ya know where it flooded a few years ago). These places charging almost $2k rent for studio apartments only drives up the prices of every other apartment & rental unit in the area. Places with 1990s asthetics now have the excuse to charge $1600 for a 1 bedroom because they're the best deal in town.

Also, the drivers here rivals the worst of the city. Never seen so many people drive like they're brain surgeons and they're late for a procedure. Just going out for errands I swear I saw no less than 5 moves that could have resulted in a wreck.

You can add a few to that too:

Krasner - from all accounts is a dick to work both for and with

Kenney - once Trump was gone, seems to be allergic to public statements; pretty sure he gave out more soundbites on the leadup to the election/post election about Trump than he has in the 2 years since

Outlaw - as incompetent as she has been, is also shackled with a strong FOP that makes any reforms near impossible unless the state wants to threaten to break up that union (ha! no shot of this)

And again, the state legislature doesn't do the city any favors either. They're not anywhere near as problematic as the 3 people above + the FOP, but they only get involved in city matters when it benefits them politically.

They're all too busy going through any other PPD topic and downvoting the comments they don't like. There's not much to add here that wouldn't expose their bias.

Paying more and filling jobs within a reasonable amount of time. From anecdotes of people who have gone through the process, it takes months to go from application to decision, if you hear back at all.

Most people don't have the luxury of sitting around waiting for an answer. After a while, they'll go get a job somewhere else, probably in the private sector making more. I'm sure people want to work for the city, but when you couple low pay with a process that moves at a snail's pace, it's no surprise that vacancies seem to never get filled.

>a politician could make huge amounts of hay by criticizing the police

Not in 2022, where doing that makes you pro criminal and your opponents will run on that fact alone, and nothing else. And it works, as sad as that is.