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Malachi Lily has eight arms.
Malachi Lily has eight arms.
Imani speaks with emerging artist, curator and poet Malachi Lily about shape-shifting, leadership and making space for nuanced representations of blackness.
Maggie Lily/Malachi Lily is fast becoming one of the busiest and most versatile denizens of Philadelphia’s underground arts community. Not only does this recent UArts Poetry/Illustration graduate write, model and take commissions for cut paper artworks, but they also curate and produce events that center queer and black joy. Take, for example, “Gaudlike,” an exhibition they recently organized at the Indy Hall coworking space, which grew from a love of dress-up and collectivite expression. Here Malachi describes their affinity for fairytale creatures and their unique leadership style. Have humans always been furries? Listen to find out. Imani interviewed Malachi at Moore College of Art and Design’s TGMR radio station on September 26, 2018; the podcast is 34 minutes long.
Artist, poet, curator and activist Maggie Lily/Malachi Lily
Visit Malachi’s website to read their poetry, view their visual art, or find out more about Our Black Arts Festival. On instagram, follow @hawkmothevents to stay up on Malachi’s curatorial projects or @theholyhawkmoth for their personal work.
Thank you to The Galleries at Moore TGMR radio project for making this podcast possible, and especially to Matt Kalasky for inviting Artblog to participate in the Moore TGMR radio project.
Source: https://www.theartblog.org/2018/09/malachi-lily-has-eight-arms/
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Is South Street's retail apocalypse coming to an end?
A downturn decades in the making
The boom-bust business cycle may point to a coming revitalization for the eastern blocks of South Street, but the corridor has a particularly persistent hole to dig out of. For several years, business owners and the local business improvement district have been trying to bring more customers to the street with mixed results, even as the national economy has improved and shopping districts in Center City have experienced a boom.
That’s partly a legacy of South Street’s previous renaissance in the 1970s, which began after older businesses fled to make way for a proposed expressway that was later called off. Cheap rent attracted artists’ galleries, rock clubs, and cafes, run and patronized by young people. Steinberg, who lived in Queen Village in the 1980s, said the youth-centered business model enlivened the corridor, but it didn’t support retail stability and resulted in an “incredible amount of turnover.”
The youthful crowds also caused a major image problem when some 50,000 revelers descended on the street for Mardi Gras in February 2001, leading to riots that made national news. They smashed windows, looted a dozen stores, and threw bottles at police, resulting in 100 arrests and a clampdown on Fat Tuesday celebrations in the years since. “That cast a negative shadow on South Street,” Steinberg said. “That doesn’t happen anymore.”
During the recession, scores of businesses closed and were not replaced for years, prompting some landlords to donate their storefronts to arts organizations for use as low-cost galleries and art studios. Anchor stores like Gap, Tower Records and Blockbuster shut down. The rise of online shopping took a toll. Meanwhile, shoppers began discovering other cool places to spend their time and money.
The variety of alternatives is something the street has “wrestled with over the years and still wrestles with,” said Michael Harris, executive director of the South Street Headhouse District business association. “Frankly, South Street used to be the only game in town, in the 80s and 90s. But the heat map moves, the areas of popularity move, so now you have Fishtown and North Liberties and East Passyunk.”
While the internet and changing shopping habits have challenged retailers everywhere, Center City’s retail market is booming. Some 2 million square feet of new retail space is in development from Vine to South streets, according to a 2017 report from Center City District, “expanding Philadelphia’s prime retail district and reactivating long-dormant downtown shopping streets.”
On Walnut and Chestnut streets west of Broad, the retail vacancy rate dropped below 5 percent last year, CCD said. The vacancy rate citywide hovered around 8 percent as of mid-2018, according to Collier’s International. Meanwhile, South Street struggles with a vacancy rate of 16 percent, nearly twice the citywide average, Harris said.
The loss of businesses on South Street is reflected in stagnant retail rents. Storefronts there rent for about $40 per square foot, well below the amounts charged in the core of Center City, according to a report by the real estate firm CBRE. That figure is almost unchanged from 13 years ago, while asking rates on Chestnut, Walnut and Market streets have risen steadily since then.
Yet with so many buildings vacant, rents should arguably be even lower. Landlords’ unwillingness to accept less profitable lease arrangements may explain why some spots remain empty for months or even years. A similar phenomenon is occurring in parts of Manhattan, where landlords are reluctant to lower rates despite a supposed retail apocalypse driven by online competition.
“There are people still expecting to get rents much higher than I think the street can support, so they’re holding out and holding properties vacant against the dream that has probably changed as retail is facing ever more pressure from the internet,” said Paul Levy, CCD’s chief executive and a resident of nearby Society Hill. “A lot of the property owners have made decisions to wait for certain types of tenants who may not be coming.”
South Street’s future may depend on embracing the model of the neighborhood main street. Levy, Harris, and the brokers agree that the best bet for the long-time tourist attraction may be catering to the affluent residents who have moved in over the last few decades.
“You’ve got incredibly strong market demand on either side of the street, from Society Hill and Queen Village, from Washington Square and from Bella Vista. This is not like a marginal commercial corridor struggling for businesses,” Levy said.
That would mean accelerating the street’s shift from its youth-oriented focus of the 1980s and 1990s, which depended on weekend visitors from around the region, to a balanced model that brings in more local shoppers on weekdays.
“Part of our challenge, and part of our opportunity, is that we have to service both the neighborhood and tourists,” Harris said. A recent survey of people on the street found visitors from 20 different states, he said. “We are a tourist destination and we want that to be a good experience for people, but at the same time we want to be serving all the neighbors that live around here, which are lots of families, and lots of people with disposable income. It’s kind of finding that balance of things that work for both. If you can get the right mix, both sets of consumers will be happy.”
An indication of what that could look like can be found right off South Street, on 4th Street’s Fabric Row, where boutiques, salons, cafes and restaurants like Hungry Pigeon thrive off a steady stream of local customers. One popular boutique, Moon + Arrow recently opened an offshoot shop, Little Moon + Arrow, catering to the organic-onesie-wearing, wooden-toy-playing children of their customers.
Nearby residents are particularly eager to see a grocery store fill the long-vacant storefronts of Abbotts Square. Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch company that owns Giant and other supermarket chains, reportedly leased space in the building in 2016 to open a smaller-sized, higher-end market, but the owner has encountered difficulties that have slowed redevelopment of the complex.
Harris and Steinberg said Ahold recently announced that the 16,000-square-foot market is coming soon. A spokeswoman for Giant Food Stores would not confirm a date or address for a new South Street store, but she said the company is planning to announce several new locations in Philadelphia in the coming months. A Giant Heirloom Market is set to open in December at 24th and Bainbridge, close to South Street West in Graduate Hospital.
The South Street Headhouse District already has Whole Foods and ACME at 10th Street, as well as Essene natural foods and two small markets on 4th Street. There’s also a small ACME on 5th Street in Society Hill.
Another prospective anchor business is the small-format Target proposed for 5th and Bainbridge, where buildings have already been demolished in preparation for construction of the store, a parking garage and apartments. Steinberg said a “highly regarded” national fast-food chain is also working on a deal to open a restaurant on South Street.
“That’s the kind of happening that gives us hope,” he said. “What we’re hoping happens is there are some stabilizing-type tenants that are looking [to occupy space] on the street, that may not have the funky panache that some of the other retailers have had on South Street, but add national stability, which make it a safer destination for retailers and adds more interest.”
Apart from individual anchor stores, what South Street needs are developers who gain control of several properties that are close to each other and pursue visions for cohesive, attractive shopping areas, Levy and Weiss said. Similar approaches worked well for East Passyunk, Frankford Avenue in Fishtown, and 13th Street in the Gayborhood, among other areas, they said.
To that end, Weiss’s firm is working on transactions with large investors who would acquire a whole portfolio of properties at once, he said.
“It will take some time to turn around,” he said. “It’s not going to be one landlord at a time. It will be larger, well-capitalized landlords who have a vision and patience to execute that vision, not to open another hookah shop.”
A promising development along those lines was the sale of several properties owned by New York developer Michael Axelrod to Midwood Investment & Development in 2016. Axelrod has reportedly owned more than 40 South Street buildings and kept many vacant for years, apparently holding out for high-profile tenants willing to pay higher rents. Since the sale, Midwood has started filling the spaces, including a former McDonald’s that was vacant for a decade but recently reopened as a nail salon.
“There are a lot of property owners who are willing and interested in negotiating [with prospective tenants],” Harris said. “There's no magic wand that suddenly cures it all, and the needle doesn't move as fast as I want, but I think there are a tremendous number of great restaurants and great retail down here that we want to remind people of.”
Source: http://planphilly.com/articles/2018/11/20/is-south-street-s-retail-apocalypse-coming-to-an-end
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City Releases Clean Energy Vision Action Plan
To continue its commitment to green the city, the Office of Sustainability released more plans last week.
The Clean Energy Vision Action Plan drills further into the Powering Our Future Plan to identify actions the city can push by 2020 (that’s T-1.5 years from now) to move quickly to cut our carbon footprint.
The Clean Energy Vision Action Plan is broken down into 6 key areas, which are:
Implementing the Municipal Energy Master Plan – this is the city-plan to reduce emissions in city-owned buildings like City Hall, Art Museum, streetlights, and more.
Growing existing Clean Energy Programs – Think building codes, solar energy, energy benchmarking, Phila 2030 and more.
New local programs & policy to advance clean energy – Many of these may need city council approval, but opportunities include a commercial PACE (property assessments), building tune-up to implement energy-saving, and home energy use requirements when buying or selling a single-family residence.
New state legislation to advance clean energy – Once again, this requires legislation but on a state level. Opportunities include existing nuclear power plants, expansion of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (currently it requires 18% of electricity in PA to come from renewables, but will expire in 2021.)
Go beyond the built environment – We gotta think beyond buildings, eh? This includes how Zero Waste and Litter Plan to reduce landfill use, Transportation efficiency and Clean Fleet to encourage electric vehicles and solar charging stations.
Planning, education and advocacy – OOS wants to educate other levels of governments like updating about climate science, PGW, large institutions and state/federal advocacy.
Read the full plan on the website.
Christine Knapp of OOS attended the Global Climate Action Summit in San Fran last week to celebrate climate actions and ways the city is signing onto climate commitments.
PSSST. Want to learn more about buildings and 2030 districts? We’re launching a podcast soon, and a few of the episodes will do a deep dive into green buildings, both in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Subscribe now on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Source: http://www.greenphillyblog.com/news/city-releases-clean-energy-vision-action-plan/
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Seasonal Team Member (Stationery & Home Goods)
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Digibuddha is a small stationery and lifestyle products company that specializes in invitations, paper goods & home products through online outlets including Etsy, Amazon & company website. We're an eclectic group of hard working, dedicated people who ALWAYS get the job done, roll with the punches, and like to have fun along the way. Casual dress.
We are looking for an energetic, hard working individuals with a great attitude to join our small in-house production team during our busiest times. Lots of opportunity for growth within production for the right person.
IDEAL TIMEFRAME is now through December.
*EXPERIENCE with shipping & receiving in a fast pace environment is preferred.*
Responsibilities include:
-Accept high volume of deliveries.
-Prepare outbound shipments; packaging & boxing following Digibuddha standards.
-Shipping orders; creating & printing shipping labels.
-Submitting supply needs.
-Organizing and maintaining merchandise.
-Print assembly including, cutting, counting, quality checking, packaging and boxing for mass shipping.
-General shop maintenance.
The right candidate should:
-Have the ability to work the 1st shift (6:00a-2:00p) or 2nd shifts (2:00p-11:00p) during the holiday season.
-Be a multitasking champ.
-Have excellent communication skills.
-Be consistent & systematic. Every shipment needs to be filled with consistent accuracy.
-Attention to detail.
-Good listener, quick learner & adaptable.
-Be able to work evenings & weekends as needed.
-Consistent and reliable attendance
-Work well with a small team and have a great attitude!
Physical requirements:
-Lifting up to 50 pounds without assistance.
-Ladder climbing.
-Bending, twisting, reaching, pushing, pulling, and performing repetitive motions.
-Be able to stand and walk for long periods of time; 8 hours or more.
-Moving large quantities of merchandise with carts, dollies.
Are you ready?
To be considered, please submit your resume & include "SEASONAL position" in the subject line.
Details:
part-time | 30-40 hours per week.
varying shifts available, 7 days a week.
MUST be available to work the 1st shift (6:00a-2:00p) or 2nd shift (2:00p-11:00p) during peak holiday season.
Discounts offered on Digibuddha merchandise.
Source: https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/med/d/seasonal-team-member/6707129301.html
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Philadelphia Ranked No.1 Bed Bug-Infested City, Survey Finds
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphians are not going to be proud they are ranked at the top of this list. Terminix released its annual ranking of “Top 50 Bed Bug-Infested Cities” in the country ahead of summer vacation season and Beg Bug Awareness Week. Philadelphia reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the 2019 list, which it also held back in 2014.
Last year, Philadelphia was ranked second in the nation for most bed bugs.
Terminix based its rankings on the number of services rendered in each city in the past year.
New York landed No. 2 on the list and Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 3.
“Bed bugs continue to pose concerns for public health, as their presence is felt across the country, in cities large and small,” said Matthew Stevenson, president of Terminix Residential.
Terminix experts warn that bed bugs can be found in more than just bedding and mattresses.
They can also hitchhike from place to place via personal belongings, including jackets, purses and luggage, or hide in upholstered furniture and behind baseboards.
Here are some tips to mitigate the risk of being bitten or transporting bed bugs:
Check hotel headboards, mattresses and box springs for live bed bugs, their exoskeletons and or dark blood spots.
While full-grown, bed bugs are about the size, shape and color of an apple seed. Travelers should also look for newly hatched nymphs, which are cream-colored and the size of letters on a penny, as well as small translucent eggs, which may be found in the tucks and folds of sheets.
Hang all clothing. Leave nothing lying on the bed or furniture.
Avoid storing clothing in a hotel’s furniture drawers.
Store suitcases on a luggage rack as far away from the bed as possible.
Vacuum suitcases when returning home, and immediately wash clothing in hot water.
Between trips, store luggage in a sealed plastic bag in a garage or basement away from bedrooms.
Source: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/06/03/philadelphia-terminix-beg-bugs/
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Where's the beef? Fit Wentz altered summer diet
PHILADELPHIA -- Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz is almost as passionate about hunting as he is football, and therefore about the last person you would expect to find at a vegan restaurant. But the new Wentz isn't like the old one when it comes to how he fuels and maintains his body.
Wentz dramatically changed his diet and transformed his training regimen this offseason as part of an effort to put his recent injury history behind him. The early returns have been fruitful. He showed up to training camp several pounds lighter and noticeably leaner, and says he is feeling stronger.
"I can't promise that nothing is going to happen this year, next year, whatever. This is football," Wentz said in a conversation with ESPN. "But I can set myself up for success. Whether it's avoiding big injuries, but just on a daily basis feeling better. Body feeling stronger. Feeling mentally better, too, at the same time. Just finding the right training regimen and rehabilitation regimen was a big part of it."
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Wentz took a deep dive on body wellness after a stress fracture was discovered in his back in December, the second significant injury in as many seasons for the 26-year-old QB. That process led to him assembling a team with multiple trainers, including a soft tissue specialist, and a nutritionist.
The nutritionist tested him for foods that he wasn't compatible with or caused inflammation. When the results came back he was told to go gluten free, and to remove beef from his diet for two months -- a big ask for the hearty North Dakotan.
"For me, that was like one of the hardest things that I've ever had to do," Wentz said. "Couldn't eat steak, eat a burger, those kinds of things. And then you slowly introduce some of those things back. It's about portion-controlling it and not overdoing it within the diet. I think it's helped me to just feel physically better and have more energy in things.
Safe to say, Wentz is pushing himself out of his comfort zone in search of better answers to the health questions that surround him. That includes his workouts, which have been significantly reshaped, focusing more now on mobility, flexibility and range of motion.
He described his old workout structure as "the high school/college mindset of just lift, lift, lift, work hard, work hard." He is working out more than ever under this new format, but it includes more functional and purposeful movement as opposed to just hitting the weights for an hour-and-a-half straight.
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That's been an adjustment. So has transitioning to a gluten-free diet. Wentz is a big breakfast guy, but can no longer dig into some of his favorites like pancakes, waffles and biscuits. Pizza is out, too.
Wentz also notes that while he has enjoyed vegan food, he hasn't gone completely green with his new diet.
"I've been to a few vegan restaurants now and every time I do I feel very weird," Wentz said. "I literally have an outdoor show where we hunt and we eat. I feel weird like I'm almost leaving my man card at the door, but there is some great vegan food. We've eaten some and I do enjoy it. But no, meat is still very much in the diet."
But good health is the priority, and Wentz feels he is putting his best foot forward in that respect entering the 2019 season.
Source: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27269934/beef-fit-wentz-altered-summer-diet
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Flyers Close Out 2018 With Miserable Loss To Hurricanes
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Lucas Wallmark, Jordan Martinook and Andrei Svechnikov scored and the Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 Monday night.
Curtis McElhinney stopped 22 shots as the Hurricanes won for the second time in six games.
Carolina hadn’t scored more than a goal in four of its last five games and had been shutout twice, including a 2-0 loss at New Jersey on Saturday.
Jakub Voracek scored for Philadelphia, which lost for the third time in four games and fell to 3-3-1 under interim coach Scott Gordon. Carter Hart started in the nets for the Flyers, but allowed three goals on 10 shots and was replaced by Michal Neuvirth, who stopped all 23 shots he faced.
Wallmark gave Carolina a 1-0 lead at 10:47 in the first period. He beat Hart high to the glove side. It was a trend that would continue for the Hurricanes and eventually lead to Hart’s exit in the second period.
Off the opening faceoff of the second period, Martinook stole the puck in the neutral zone, skated in and scored just six seconds in. Martinook also beat Hart to the glove side.
McElhinney made his toughest save of the night on a 2-on-1 chance by the Flyers and center Scott Laughton at 2:05 of the second period.
Svechnikov got free in transition after McElhinney’s save and beat Hart at 2:19 for the 3-0 lead.
The power-play has been a season-long problem for the Flyers, who were 0 for 2 Monday. Philadelphia ranks last in the NHL with the man-advantage.
Voracek scored Philadelphia’s only goal at 2:38 in the third period.
NOTES: Philadelphia center Jori Lehtera was a healthy scratch for the seventh straight game. Lehtera is under investigation for his involvement in a drug ring in his native Finland. According to the Finnish news service mtvuutiset.fi, Lehtera was charged on Monday with purchasing eight grams of cocaine and he faces a five-month prison sentence. “As I have maintained from the outset, these charges against me are false and I will clear my name,” Lehtera said in a statement released by the team. … Carolina captain Justin Williams played in his 1,200 game on Monday.
UP NEXT
Flyers: At Nashville on Tuesday.
Hurricanes: At Philadelphia on Thursday.
Source: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/12/31/flyers-close-out-2018-with-miserable-loss-to-hurricanes/
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Birdbrained Week 5: Solving The Safety Position
Howdy team! It’s mailbag time.
If you ever want to get your questions in, hit me up on Twitter @BenjaminSolak. If you don’t have a Twitter, you can also e-mail me at benjamin [dot] solak [at] gmail, but I will probably tell you to get a Twitter (and answer your question anyway).
Aaaand here we go!
I kinda talked about this with the Eric Thomas thing last week; but it applies to Le’Veon as well: Understanding the comp pick formula really frees you up to make some aggressive in-season trades. Let’s use Bell as the example:
Because Le’Veon Bell would likely be one of the larger free agent contracts when he hits the market after this season, the team that loses Bell to free agency will receive a compensatory Draft pick — likely a third- or fourth-rounder.
Philadelphia could be the team to recoup that selection.
So what’s the price to rent one of the top running backs in the league for 2018, and then acquire a 2020 third round selection? That’s the question you’re asking here.
Now, typically, when you add a free agent, you don’t have to worry about making the team worse, right? He either adds talent, or your team stays the same. But with Bell, if you’re trading for him, you have to convince him to sign the franchise tag, and then...actually play. As the Eagles — a team very unlikely to extend Bell beyond 2018 — that might be a difficult sell.
Of course, it doesn’t have to be Earl Thomas or Le’Veon Bell — it doesn’t have to be a disgruntled, future free agent that you trade for. And because future Draft picks are 90% a myth — think about the number of trades that happen on Draft night — you shouldn’t be afraid of moving a Day 2 pick or multiple Day 3 picks for the sake of proven players.
I expect moves. Even if the Eagles win out from now until the deadline, or lose out the same. Howie’s always looking for value, and that won’t change this season.
No, not really.
Before the season, when you looked at the Eagle defense, you’d likely circle defensive tackle depth or safety depth as the two biggest concerns. Maybe LB depth, but I feel like training camp handled that bump pretty nicely. Now a quarter of the way through the season, safety depth really has been exposed as the issue, in terms of personnel.
I probably have lost some confidence in Jim Schwartz, because he’s really struggling to get creative on the back-end. I thought he had done a nice job of growth in this regard coming into the season, but a leopard never changes its spots, I suppose. My confidence in the front-seven as a whole remains unwavering, as does my trust in Malcolm Jenkins to superhero-will the Eagles to win after win.
For the offense, you likely circled the Carson Wentz health situation as the biggest red flag — and really, to this point in the season, it technically has been, in that Carson’s only played two games. By the same token, the pass-catching depth was a big point of worry in September, but all it took was a good Goedert game and then an Alshon return to quell those concerns.
I suppose my salient point with the offense: let them get everyone back and in a few weeks with a new offensive coordinator before we go panicking. The switch at LG has been made to Seumalo, but I generally expect the offense to look much better when, you know, all of Darren Sproles and Corey Clement and Alshon Jeffery and 100% of Jay Ajayi and Carson Wentz are on the field at the same time.
I am not even close to panic mode about the offensive line. They’ve had two shaky weeks against two complex fronts. It’s all okay.
This kinda follows that ‘Schwartz adjusting’ idea, so let’s address it here.
The general schema, from my understanding, is this: let’s assume pressure is going to arrive to the quarterback quicker than 2.5 seconds (that’s the average NFL time to throw). That’s pretty much enough time for the QB to get to his first, maybe his second read depending on the concept.
If you’re playing Cover 3 with your corners off the line — that’s the typical Schwartz deployment — then your corners can play downhill into quick-breaking hot routes, thereby scoring PBUs or quick tackles against the quick throw game teams will use to combat your pass rush.
If you’re playing Cover 3 press, or just pure Cover 1, then you can more easily take away those underneath routes, sure — but if and when you get beat by quick underneath releases, you allow for YAC. And, if and when you get beat instead by one-on-one throws like the go route or back-shoulder fade, you give up bigger chunks of yardage.
Of course, Philadelphia can get into situations (Tampa Bay) in which, despite playing Cover 3, they’re still giving up big chunk plays (deep ins and comebacks were the great culprit there). I agree that, at that point, you’d like to see Schwartz potentially press or run trap coverages to discourage those routes.
I’d also welcome more variance generally, just to keep offenses on their toes. We saw a move that direction against the Titans, but some really bad execution on the field — and likely too much variance in the play-calling to boot. There’s a balance to be struck here. More press is definitely a possibility — but it doesn’t really lend itself to the structure and philosophy of Jim Schwartz’s entire defense.
I’m taking these three together, since they’re definitely linked. Let’s start with the big question:
Why was Avonte Maddox — a rookie cornerback — seeing safety reps over Deiondre’ Hall, a player who has actually played safety before in his life?
I dunno. I have no idea what that logic was. Simply none.
Maddox as a safety is something I find very perplexing. Think about it this way: slot corners play in the tightest of spaces in the secondary. There are bodies everywhere else — inside, outside, deep — so all the work of slot receivers happens very immediately. That’s why the primary trait of slot receivers is quickness: they need to separate in an instant, given the tight confines.
Deep safeties play in the most open of spaces in the secondary. Everything is happening equidistant to them (generally speaking). Their job isn’t to get somewhere in a split second, but rather get everywhere in a reasonably short period of time. They don’t need quickness so much as they need range — long-distance quickness, I suppose — which is a marriage of recognition and long speed.
Maddox’s primary trait is his quickness; his long range speed is certainly impressive, but that’s not what stands out on tape, and his recognition skills are yet untested. Furthermore, things like ballhawking skills — size and vertical leap to attack the catch point, physicality when attacking seam routes — also remain untested, and at his size, the outlook is a little bleak. He simply doesn’t translate to the safety position nearly as well as he does the slot.
Hence him playing in the slot for all of camp and the preseason.
Now, Deiondre’ Hall isn’t nearly as fast as Maddox — he’s built far more like a box safety who can cover tight ends than he is a free safety like McLeod. If the Eagles were to get Hall on the field, it would be more likely as the box guy, while Jenkins would step back into McLeod’s role as the deep safety.
But at least then you’d have Hall playing a role he’s familiar with, instead of Maddox in a role he’s never seen before. To me, that seems preferable — but what do I know, really?
Given the issues in the secondary, not seeing Hall at all in the near future — read: this week — would be rather a condemnation on that trade. The Eagles are desperate for an impact player at safety, and they traded for a safety who has yet to see the field. If that continues, that’s a bad look.
Source: https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2018/10/5/17943750/philadelphia-eagles-mailbag-birdbrained-rodney-mcleod-avonte-maddox-deiondre-hall
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On the Market: Rehabbed Row House in Bella Vista
For Sale/Rent
This South Philly classic looks a lot brighter now, and it's not because of the morning sun pouring through its windows.
908 E. Passyunk Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19147 | Bright MLS images via Realty Mark Associates
Like the Italian Market?
How about cheesesteaks or banh mi?
Or maybe Mexican taquerias are more your speed.
If you’re a foodie, this recently renovated row house for sale on East Passyunk Avenue makes the perfect home base for your culinary explorations in more ways than one.
As it’s one block above Washington Avenue and two blocks east of the Italian Market, you have a world of dining and shopping options at your doorstep.
Main floor
When you feel like having someone else do the cooking, you can head to one of the numerous eateries that surround you.
And when you want to do it, this house lets you cook, dine and entertain with ease.
Dining area
Its open main floor was built for entertaining. Your guests can relax in the living room or hang out at the dining room table and breakfast bar while you put on a show in the kitchen.
Kitchen
And with loads of storage and pantry space, the kitchen lets you stay well-stocked with ingredients for whatever cuisine you might wish to explore.
Rear patio
In the summer, you can treat yourself and your friends to cookouts on your rear patio. Its ipe wood and bluestone pavement makes it more environmentally friendly to boot.
Bedroom
And once you’ve sent them all home, you can retreat upstairs, where three bedrooms and a nicely outfitted hall bath await.
Put a home gym in the basement and you can burn off all the calories you just consumed as well.
This house for sale got a total rehab recently; both its hardwood floors and its interior walls sparkle, especially when the morning sun strikes them. (Or the afternoon sun, in case of the second-floor rear bedroom.)
Exterior front
Are you ready to say “Chow!” — er, “Ciao!” — to this Bella Vista beauty? If you are, you know what to do.
THE FINE PRINT
BEDS: 3
BATHS: 1 full, 1 half
SQUARE FEET: 1,054
SALE PRICE: $400,000
OTHER STUFF: This house’s sale price was reduced by $15,000 on June 2nd.
908 E. Passyunk Ave., Philadephia, Pa. 19147 [Larry R. Levin | Realty Mark Associates]
Source: https://www.phillymag.com/property/2019/06/05/house-for-sale-bella-vista-rehabbed-row/
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Report: Eagles will host Ed Oliver on pre-draft visit
Houston defensive tackle Ed Oliver is one of the 30 prospects from the 2019 NFL Draft who will be hosted by the Eagles for a visit in Philadelphia, according to Mark Berman from Fox 26 (hat tip to @Eagles_Addict).
This is an intriguing visit considering Oliver is one of the best defensive linemen in this year’s class.
There used to be thought that Oliver could be the No. 1 overall pick. Now he’s viewed more likely to fall into the teens due to concerns about his size (just under 6-2, 287 pounds). Some mock draft scenarios even have Oliver slipping to the Eagles’ pick at No. 25.
Philadelphia will be sprinting to the podium if Oliver is available at their selection on draft night. That doesn’t seem incredibly likely to happen, though. The Eagles are probably going to need to trade up for Oliver if they want to get him.
Oliver’s been killing his athletic testing:
In three years at Houston, Oliver amassed 192 total tackles, a whopping 53 tackles for loss, 13.5 sacks, 11 pass deflections, and five forced fumbles. That’s quality production.
Oliver clearly pops on tape in addition to the stat sheet:
BGN’s Michael Kist has Oliver as his second ranked interior defensive lineman from this year’s draft:
Oliver received a ton of hype coming into the season, but he failed to move the needle further in 2018. The 2017 film looks very similar, which is where the problem lies. Well, not really a problem, as he’s still an incredible prospect. Still, Oliver failed to develop counters and improve on his hand usage while being embroiled in a weird situation with his coaching staff.
There are also some concerns over Oliver’s size and some teams have reportedly considered moving him to linebacker. That listing of 292 pounds feels like a big fat lie, but I’m not as concerned as others. If teaching a potentially dominant 3-tech to be a linebacker seems foolish, it’s because it probably is. Besides, if you’re interested in rewiring Oliver’s brain to read runs from an off-ball alignment and teach him how coverage works, you probably won’t value him high enough to draft him anyway.
Oliver is a 3-tech, plain and simple. He may need to add 10 pounds to be effective from that alignment in the NFL, but he’s likely only a loaf of bread a day away from reaching that mark.
All that aside, Oliver remains a disruptive force with crazy athleticism for his size. A potential move to linebacker wouldn’t even be discussed if he wasn’t a freak on the move. He’ll have issues with play strength against gap schemes, but more times than not he’s going to beat you with his explosiveness and flexibility. Top tier prospect.
Summary: Immediate starter at 3-tech and instant upgrade to pass rush.
Oliver would be right at home in Jim Schwartz’s attack style defense. The Eagles having a defensive tackle trio of Fletcher Cox, Malik Jackson, and Oliver is an exciting thought. That’s a lot of interior disruption!
One can only wonder if Oliver is the player that Brian Baldinger suggested the Eagles might be interested in moving up for. It seems possible to me.
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Complete list of known Philadelphia Eagles draft visits
Houston DT Ed Oliver
Maryland S Darnell Savage (Local) - [Click here]
Boston College OL Chris Lindstrom - [Click here]
Oklahoma OT Cody Ford - [Click here]
Ole Miss WR A.J. Brown - [Click here]
Penn State CB Amani Oruwariye - [Click here]
Arkansas G/C Hjalte Froholdt - [Click here]
TCU DE L.J. Collier - [Click here]
Old Dominion DE Oshane Ximines - [Click here]
Michigan RB Karan Higdon - [Click here]
Florida S Chauncey Gardner-Johnson - [Click here]
Alabama State OT Tytus Howard - [Click here]
Source: https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2019/3/28/18285654/eagles-ed-oliver-nfl-draft-rumors-2019-philadelphia-trade-up-houston-defensive-tackle-line-visit-dt
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DA investigating 'hired muscle' at Mariner East pipelines
WEST WHITELAND TWP., PA (WPVI) --
The criminal investigation into the Mariner East 1, 2, and 2X pipelines was opened by Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan just one month ago.
On Tuesday, Hogan voiced concern with the armed security hired by the pipeline company to protect yet another sinkhole.
"If you want to be private security, you could be private security, but you cannot masquerade as a constable," said Hogan.
On Sunday, a 5-by-10-foot sinkhole popped up behind a home on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township.
"The pipeline, it draws serious concern from the community because it's very dangerous," said neighbor Jason Mattia.
Hogan said when detectives arrived at the scene Monday, they were told to move back by an armed security guard, who flashed a badge and represented himself as a constable. When questioned, he revealed he was from Northumberland County, more than 100 miles out of his jurisdiction.
"The detectives ask him, 'Who do you really work for and who is paying you?' And the armed man's answer was 'Sunoco,' so at this point this looks like hired muscle," said Hogan. "Private security masquerading as a constable, coming down here to work security for this pipeline which is only going to intimidate, infuriate citizens of Chester County."
Sunoco says it does hire private security and did so here at the request of the family who lives in that home, but the company would not explain why the employee may have been posing as local law enforcement.
The Chester County criminal investigation into the pipeline continues.
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Power Restored To Philadelphia City Hall After Outage Causes Evacuation
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Power has been restored to Philadelphia City Hall after a power outage forced an evacuation of the building Monday afternoon, according to PECO.
Around 1:15 p.m., the building lost power and was evacuated. Power was restored shortly after 2 p.m.
Philadelphia Courts said that court operations are closed for the rest of the day.
The Philadelphia City Council also tweeted that offices are closing or will be closed shortly due to a power outage.
It is not yet known what caused the power outage.
Source: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/11/26/power-restored-to-philadelphia-city-hall-after-outage-causes-evacuation/
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‘Murphy Brown’ Cast Members Faith Ford And Joe Regalbuto: ‘When We Do Pick A Topic There’s No Sidestepping’
The wildly popular news sitcom Murphy Brown returns to CBS tonight after 20 years. Candice Bergen reclaims the role of Murphy Brown alongside Joe Regalbuto as Frank Fontana and Faith Ford as Corky Sherwood. It’s an entirely different media landscape since the last time the FYI team graced television sets and the whole gang is ready to tackle the modern world.
CBS Local’s Matt Weiss caught up with Faith Ford and Joe Regalbuto ahead of tonight’s premiere to discuss what it’s like to be together again, modern media and the humorous side of menopause.
MW- Good morning to you both, how’s it going?
FF- Great!
JR- Going good man, how about you?
MW- Doing well, doing well. Congrats on the big return tonight, how does it feel to have the gang back together?
FF- We love being together and it’s great to be in New York shooting the show now!
JR- It’s fantastic, every time we get together it’s a lot of fun.
MW- Coming from a local news perspective ourselves at CBS, you’re also covering news on the show. It’s scripted of course, so it’s a different form of news coverage but it’s there all the same. Do you all enjoy that task and what does it mean to you to be a source of information for people?
JR- That’s one of the most fun things that we can do. We’re at a critical time for news and we get to cover it. We’re playing news reporters on television and we get to cover any situation, any topic we want and without constraints…
FF- …Because it’s fiction, therefore we have more license to play.
JR- Our creative producer Diane English and Candice have both said that when we do pick a topic there’s no sidestepping. We’re able to go after it and we take a point of view, let’s put it that way.
MW- Obviously a lot has changed in the real world since the show’s been away but what has changed for your characters in the last 20 years?
FF- Well Corky’s in menopause, full on menopause [laughs]. So that’s different, but I can relate.
JR- It’s a funny menopause [laughs].
FF- So any woman out there who is there, getting there or knows what it’s like to be there should totally identify with Corky [laughs].
JR- You’ll get a few laughs between your hot flashes!
FF- That’s right!
JR- Listen, all the characters we’ve kind of built a history for them but we don;t spend a ton of time with that we want to get right to what’s going on now. Murphy and Frank along with Corky have been getting together since the show’s been over and we hook up and say hey.
FF- And Candice is so amazing as Murphy now as opposed to Murphy then. I mean there’s just sort of this ease and grace that she has, she’s so comfortable, so set in her ways, in the best way possible. She’s not shrill or anything like that and to see her in this energy dealing with these topics is pretty incredible to watch.
JR- You’re also reminded that the woman won five Emmy Awards. It’s no sort of magic that we’re all back here, she’s got a tremendous amount of talent.
FF- Her truth dealing with this is so genuine it brings tears to my eyes, she’s so genuine. She feels it in her heart for Murphy and you can see that it comes across.
MW- There must be such a comfort, I’d imagine it’s like getting reacquainted with an old friend I’d imagine.
FF- Oh yes.
JR- Completely. The set behind us when Faith walked in she started crying, Candice was weeping already and it’s very emotional. They really got down into the details for the set as well as Phil’s Bar it’s really remarkable.
FF- They recreated here (New York), not in Warner Brothers lot in Burbank which is what we were used to, it really made it feel like coming home again for us. It’s crazy, I was a heap on the floor when I first walked in.
MW- Even with all that comfort there have to be changes of course and today social media and news coverage has changed so much due to technology, how will that be reflected in this new iteration?
FF- From the get, That’s what Nik Dodani’s character is for, he’s our tech guy, he keeps us social in the media.
JR- We’re all amazed at how fast things are flowing. Even with the show and presenting the show and launching it, it’s unbelievable how many outlets there are now, how vast things are now. Candice will send out a picture and get like 80 texts back immediately, its nuts what goes on. So the show definitely has to catch up as well as us.
MW- Last question for both of you know, how would you describe this new version of Murphy Brown to all the prospective audience members out there?
FF- How would you describe it Joe?
JR- Smart as hell and very ambitious.
FF- No holds barred, but fun! We’re flawed, we’re definitely doing our thing but we’re human beings. We’re having fun but we’re dealing with situations head on and I think it’s a journey. Hopefully it won’t be divisive, I hope it will bring people together because that’s very important.
JR- And from some angles I actually look OK, I don’t look like I’m 120 on television. Some angles I look in my late 80’s and other’s I look good for a quick second and then it’s back [laughs].
FF- No! You look good Joe! Now he’s being Frank Fontana, he’s not Joe anymore [laughs].
MW- It’s obvious how much fun you all have together and I’m really excited to see that come through on the show again. Thank you both so much for talking to me today and good luck with the new season!
JR- Thank you!
FF- Thank you so much, take care Matt!
Murphy Brown returns tonight at 9:30 PM ET/PT, only on CBS. Check your local listings for more information.
Source: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/09/27/murphy-brown-cbs-faith-ford-joe-regalbuto/
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Could Philly ever be a game development hub? Nathan Solomon says no
Editor’s note: (5/24/19, 9:37 p.m.) Wow, a lot of you really hated this story! In all seriousness, I realize now that we — I — missed adding a lot of context here. Technical.ly has been covering Philly’s video game community for years, including most recently things like the Phillytron arcade, companies’ crowdfunding raises and when Philly Dev Night became Philly Game Mechanics. We’ve also brought a whole bunch of local game makers to our own events over the years.
So, yeah, there’s a lot more that could have been said here that wasn’t. This story came about because the author wondered what happened to Philadelphia Game Lab, specifically; it doesn’t look like we covered its 2016 shutdown when it happened. The headline and the interviewee’s responses are meant to represent one (challenging) perspective. Still, the result didn’t do enough to also acknowledge the history and current activity of indie game development in Philly.
I’d love to publish a response guest post or roundup of responses to this story, so if you have strong feelings, please do email me — [email protected]. As always, thank you for the feedback. Seriously. -jz
For a few years before it shut down in 2016, the Philadelphia Game Lab (PGL) was a hub for those interested in building video games locally.
Originally, the nonprofit — not to be confused with the Philly Game Forge — was meant to be a kind of branch of another organization, the Grassroots Game Conference, before PGL founder Nathan Solomon concentrated on working with university students in game technology and development, which would eventually led to the founding of PGL. It shut down largely due to difficulties with its funding model and university partnerships.
There are a number of indie game development studios operating in Philadelphia right now, including PHL Collective, Cipher Prime, Gossamer Games and JumpButton Studio. But could the city still have aspirations for being a hub for the video game industry? Solomon says no.
Since Solomon’s departure from the game lab, he has become the director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Thomas Jefferson University. While he has not completely detached himself from the gaming community, he’s not a convener of it anymore.
I reached out to ask Solomon about the end of PGL, why the industry isn’t stronger in Philly, and whether indie developers have a chance to grow here. His responses have been edited for length and clarity.
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We shut down in 2016. At that point we had held the Grassroots Game Conference for two years (2012 to 2013), then operated with focus on working with university students in immersive experience and game technology development as the Philadelphia Game Lab for two years (2014 to 2016). I actually started out with the idea that PGL would be a different sort of entity, and organically transitioned to the final model of working primarily with teams of university students and recent grads (about 120 individuals in total), in development of technology, in late 2013.
I can probably best organize the reasons for ending the project into two categories:
[First,] creative technology talent in Philadelphia lies overwhelmingly in universities. We had great relationships with professors and students at a range of universities, including Penn, CMU, Temple and Drexel. Students with whom we worked, especially at Penn and CMU, all loved this city but generally moved on high prestige tech companies on the west coast or elsewhere (unless they stayed here to work at Comcast). We were a step on that path, between university and prestige positions.
The bookend problem to that proposition, which eventually became clear, was that universities have a strong tendency to want to be in the position/role we were taking. We were squeezed between the universities wanting to develop IP/entrepreneurship and the tech companies to which our developers were inevitably bound. This made it hard to see how we could flourish in the long term.
[Second,] I founded PGL as a 501c3 in the belief that that structure would both facilitate university relationships, and be helpful in finding additional funding toward our mission. The problems we ran into with this approach were around the reality that our best and most promising funding sources ended up being in commissioned technology development.
We grew from $7,000 in revenue in 2013 to ~$700,000 in revenue in 2014, that went entirely toward paying students and recent graduates in this region — which created a problem unique to nonprofit structure, in that we could take no investment to continue that growth, and that a nonprofit cannot take on a credit line until it has three years of audited financials. The latter meant that every month or so, I had to approach a board member for bridging funds to carry us until we receive payment from a client for the work we were currently doing.
The institutional funding that we’d hoped would be aided by 501c3 status never materialized, for a couple of reasons. The first is that funding for economic development and regional job creation is (quite reasonably) much more focused on the unemployed and unskilled, rather than the highly skilled students with whom we worked — a majority of which were grad students. The second is that much grant funding is also dependent upon a longer history of audited financials.
Historically, video games tend to require a set of skills that have not aligned well with those of endemic Philadelphia businesses. Where else are 3D modeling, creative C++ programming and game design needed here? All of those things align well with motion picture/animation, theatrical embedded systems/theme parks, and other areas of expertise that are big in Los Angeles, Central Florida, NYC, etc. In addition to that path, there are locations like Austin and Maryland that have organically grown specifically as a result of game developers who started businesses there during periods of the industry’s greatest expansion.
In a place like Austin, there are a lot of developers, working for a number of game development entities. When one business goes under, a developer can move to another. That’s a much more appealing situation into which to be hired than going to a city where there’s only one game company, so it’s really a big deal to decide to become that sole game company in a city.
The only way something really major in games could come to Philadelphia would be if they parachuted in a fully formed, fully backed team of experts. There’s one example I know of that happening anywhere in the past, 38 Studios, and that did not work out well.
I previously worked with the folks in New Orleans who got a Louisiana tax break passed for game development, and that had negligible impact for them. [Editor’s note: Solomon also didn’t think tax credits would work here in Philly when they were proposed back in 2014.]
Canada does a better job with creating centers of opportunity in game development, largely because of the high quality and low cost of appropriate university training, and also because instead of tax breaks it directly subsidizes industry employees’ salaries. That said, its centers (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal) also have some of the same endemic industries requiring skills with high applicability to game development that I mentioned previously.
I believe that the best opportunities for something like game development being truly significant in this region are in development of immersive experience. The biggest centers for this in North America are Los Angeles and Montreal. Montreal because it has a nexus of technical and creative talent, not unlike what is beginning to form in Philadelphia. Data shows that one of the best business categories here is live entertainment, so that immersive entertainment is strategically aligned with local opportunity in a way that games never were.
Absolutely, it’s a great place to live and to exploit one’s own skills and talents. The barriers would lie primarily in the fact that they are highly unlikely to find creative day jobs in the industry here and they are even less likely to find others with depth of experience and skills here.
I should also mention a minor factor that impacted PGL and would likely affect most indie developers starting up: Because there isn’t a base of experienced game industry people here, when you have a game business in Philadelphia that runs into barriers, and go to ask local people for help and resources, they’re unlikely to be able to dive in and be really useful in helping you to next steps. There’s a strong likelihood that you’ll get the response “you’re the visionary; just make this work like you always do!” I got to a point where I didn’t have answers for what we should do next here, and neither did anyone else.
I’m director of the Blackstone LaunchPad for entrepreneurship at Jefferson University and I also spend a fair amount of time developing immersive works and technology in collaboration with creative engineers and other folks. We just patented a new method for large-scale deforming of physical spaces for responsive experiences, and are working on a few other projects.
I’m also trying to get good enough at Fusion360 to better develop additive and subtractive-manufactured components for installations. I come from cinematography, so my practical skills are largely in optics, light and physical rigging.
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Source: https://technical.ly/philly/2019/05/24/could-philly-ever-be-a-game-development-hub-nathan-solomon-says-no/
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Health officials warn about confirmed case of measles in Ocean County
LAKEWOOD, N.J. (WPVI) --
Health officials in Ocean County are warning residents about a confirmed case of the measles.
Measles are highly contagious especially to those who have not been vaccinated.
The individual developed symptoms after international travel to Israel, where there has been an increase in cases.
Anyone who visited Schul Satmar, Eat a Pita or CHEMED Health Care in Lakewood between October 14th and the 21st may have been exposed.
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Philadelphia council introduces bill to phase out soda tax
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney just got handed a new and potentially dire challenge to the city’s soda tax — the signature achievement of his first term.
A bill introduced by City Councilwoman María Quiñones-Sánchez at a City Council meeting on Thursday would gradually phase out a portion of the tax on sweetened beverages through 2021. The bill lacks specific numbers, so it could phase out the tax entirely or just reduce it.
The bill is the most serious challenge to hit the levy on sugary drinks since it survived a legal challenge from the beverage industry in 2018.
Kenney whipped council support for the 1.5 cent-per-ounce tax in 2016 as a funding vehicle for his mayoral agenda, which includes programs like subsidized pre-K and the public works program known as Rebuild. But the policy also drew the ire of the powerful beverage industry, which is still spending millions to kill the tax.
While the specifics of the legislation remain murky, the breadth of support is clear. All three Republican council members — Brian O’Neill, David Oh, and Al Taubenberger — support the bill, along with Democrats Cindy Bass, Blondell Reynolds Brown and Allan Domb.
“I think everyone in council is in favor of the programs, pre-K and Rebuild,” said Domb, of the phase-out bill. “But I think in my personal opinion, broad-based initiatives, like pre-K and Rebuild should be paid for by a broad-based tax, not a narrow tax.”
A separate resolution introduced Thursday calls for a study of how the tax affects city businesses.
“I believe a study of it is good. That's the place to start,” said O’Neill. “Let’s see what the effect has been; the effect on business, the effect on Rebuild and pre-K. And we'll go from there. It’s always the right time to have hearings and not just turn your back on it.”
Beverage industry spokesman Anthony Campisi praised the bill and sought to link the tax to the closure of a local supermarket.
“We appreciate that these councilmembers recognize that the beverage tax is a harmful policy. However, we don’t need a study to know that the tax hurts working families across Philadelphia and should be repealed,” he said. “This tax has cost hundreds of job and caused the closure of one West Philadelphia grocery store – which closed its doors for the final time this morning.”
Quiñones-Sánchez's 7th Council District includes a soda bottling facility and the Councilwoman has opposed the tax historically. She said that her bill is an attempt to understand and address any unintended impacts of the soda tax on vulnerable Philadelphians.
"This is not a repeal...it’s just saying that we’re going to have a study and we’re committed to looking at any unintended consequences and something will be done," Quiñones-Sánchez.
The sheer number of co-sponsors makes the bill the strongest legislative challenge to the tax. The beverage industry has succeeded in repealing similar taxes in other cities, like Chicago. However, the bill starts out just two votes shy of the nine votes needed to clear the chamber. And they would need 12 votes to override a mayoral veto.
Kevin Feeley, who represents a coalition of interests who support the soda tax, noted that the legislation is silent on how programs funded with these revenues would be funded.
“We weren’t surprised by the introduction of the bill. The industry has been advocating for this for three years,” he said. “But the beverage tax funds programs that are vital to Philadelphia’s future. So, we look forward to the public debate and hearing how opponents explain how they plan to fund these programs without it.”
Legislation outlining the new study suggests that a fee on single-use plastic bags, like those used at supermarkets and corner stores, could be used as an alternative funding source.
Jake Blumgart co-reported this article.
This is a developing news story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
Source: http://planphilly.com/articles/2019/03/14/philadelphia-council-moves-to-phase-out-soda-tax
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Inside the Lobby of the New Comcast Technology Center
Inside the Lobby of the New Comcast Technology Center - OCF Realty
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