Philadelphia Public Record

Vol. I No. 99

Keeping You Posted With The Politics Of Philadelphia

November 12, 2010

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MOUNTED reenactors provide honor guard at Veterans Day commemoration at All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers & Sailors on Parkway. Other veterans coverage begins page X.

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Governor-Elect Tom Corbett transition team will be made up of 10 people, most of whom were big time supporters.

The team members are unpaid, but will influence much of the new hiring needed to replace Democrats in key administrative positions.

The list included many who helped raise big dollars for the campaign.

Governor-Elect Tom Corbett The team includes Christine Toretti, CEO of S.W. Jack Drilling Co., co-chair along with Bob Asher, of Asher Candies. Other cochairs on the transition team are Jack Barbour, CEO of Ingersoll & Rooney and Bill Sasso, chairman of the law firm Stradley Ronon, based in Philadelphia.

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Laura Ellsworth, the other co-chair of Corbett’s inauguration committee, is partner-in-charge of the Jones Day law firm’s Pittsburgh office. The firm contributed more than $23,700 to Corbett’s gubernatorial campaign.

Leslie Gromis-Baker and Tom Paese were named by Corbett as co-directors of the transition. Paese served as Secretary of Administration for Gov. Tom Ridge. GromisBaker was campaign manager for Ridge during his successful reelection campaign in 1998 and was the state director of the 2000 election campaign of President George W. Bush.

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bett’s campaign manager and chief of staff of the State Attorney General’s office, will be the transition team’s chief of staff.

Pennsylvanians.”

Vacant Properties Cost Philadelphians $3.6 Billion in Household Wealth With more than 40,000 vacant properties scattered throughout the City of Philadelphia, the cost to all citizens is more than $3.6 billion.

That fact is just one of the key

Bill Sasso

findings of a study released Wednesday by the Philadelphia As-

Joint Statement on Casey-Toomey Meeting

sociation of Community Develop-

US Sen. Bob Casey and Senator-

The study, “Vacant Land Manage-

Elect Pat Toomey released the fol-

ment in Philadelphia: The Costs of

lowing joint statement after

the Current System and the Bene-

meeting in Scranton:

fits of Reform,” was prepared by a

ment Corporations and the City’s Redevelopment Authority which jointly commissioned the research.

team of consultants led by Econsult “After speaking on the phone last

Corp. The goals were to quantify

week, we had lunch where we dis-

the costs of the City’s current sys-

cussed a number of issues impor-

tem for managing vacant land and

tant to Pennsylvania and the

to demonstrate the urgent need for

country. It was also a good oppor-

and benefits of a reformed system.

tunity to get to know one another better ahead of the new Congress.

Key findings include:

We look forward to working to-

$3.6 billion in lost household

gether on a broad range of issues,

wealth due to blighting effect of

especially on creating jobs in Penn-

vacant properties;

sylvania.”

While three-quarters of the vacant properties in the City are privately owned, the City in essence “owns

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the problem”, spending over $20 million in maintenance costs each year; Each year, the City and School District lose an additional $2 million in uncollected property taxes; System reform would bring vacant property back into productive use, generating over $180 million in economic impact each year, while expanding the City’s tax base and stabilizing neighborhoods.

“One or two vacant properties on a block - or dozens across a neighborhood - have a devastating, negative impact,” said Rick Sauer, executive director of PACDC. “Hard-working neighbors are stymied when they try to get the City to ‘fix’ problem properties.

Also, community development corporations and for-profit developers have to navigate the inconsistent rules of multiple public agencies to acquire property for redevelopment. That’s just not fair, and we need to fix this ‘broken’ system now,” Sauer explained.

The full report and information on neighborhood revitalization efforts in Philadelphia can be downloaded from the PACDC website at www.pacdc.org. |

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Health Disparities Conference Launches Bloggers Campaign Nov. 10Phila. Advertising & Business Show, at Crown Plaza Hotel, City Line Ave. & Rte. 76, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Main ballroom. 790 exhibitors, entertainment, free food. Free admission with business card. Sponsored by ACT. Nov. 10State Sen. LeAnna M. Washington hosts luncheon at Temptations Restaurant on Chelten Ave., 12 m. Women Vets are asked to contact Michele Clark (267) 271-4309.

Nov. 11Fundraiser for Homeless Veterans Outreach at Swanky Bubbles, 10 S. Front St., 6-8 p.m. $20. For info Joe Eastman (609) 290-8803.

Nov. 12Nat’l Society of Colonial Dames of America host James Logan Award Gala honoring Gail Harrity, black tie, at 1630 Latimer St., 6:30 p.m.

Nov. 13State Sen. Shirley Kitchen and Lady-G Enterprises host “Mothers & Daughters Day,” in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Pennsylvaniam at Honickman Learning Center & Comcast Technology Labs, 1936 Judson St., 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Registration required.

RSVP by Nov. 1 to Kentia Waters at kwaters@pasenate.com or (215) 227-6161.

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The organizers of the fourth annual National Conference on Health Disparities yesterday announced a diverse group of 30 students from six colleges and universities have already begun to post daily blog accounts of their experiences and perceptions leading up to, and during, the conference, which convened Tuesday and continues through Nov. 13, here, at the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel.

According to the National Health Disparities Report in 2009, Blacks, Asians, American Indians and Hispanics received worse care than whites in 50%, 30% 45% and 70%, respectively, of the core measures of health care reviewed in the report. In addition, poor people received worse care than higher-income profile in 75% of the same core measures. Also, according to the Journal of Public Health, if African Americans had

experienced equivalent mortality rates of whites, from 1991 to 2009, over 880,000 African-American deaths would have been averted.

This year’s conference will specifically address the non-medical determinants of health, including education levels, health literacy, poverty, public safety, community design, areas of care, environmental quality, environmental justice and personal, government and corporate responsibility.

The first two student “blogs” were posted on Nov. 8 by Sarah Pan and Oyinkansola Kusemiju, Master of Public Health candidates from Drexel. Their posts and those of other students can be accessed on the conference’s web site www.buildinghealthycommuni-

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ties2010.com. Pan has been working on a research project with a neurologist from the University of Pennsylvania that focuses on the potential underlying causes of treatment disparities. She said the project and the upcoming conference have led her to think more about whether “health care is a right or a privilege” and that she believes it is “important to bring these issues to the table in a discussion with leaders from across the

nation.”

Kusemiju wrote what she hoped “to take away from this conference are solutions and recommendations on ways to reduce these disparities and improve the life outcomes of communities.”

The 30 students from Cheyney University, Drexel University, Lin-

coln University, Morehouse University School of Medicine, Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania, will continue to post blogs about their experiences throughout the conference. The students’ participation at the conference, inclusive of the blogging experience, has been funded by the Office of Minority Health, of the US Dept. of Health & Human Services.

Metro Caucus Launches Energy-Saving Loan Program

MAYOR Michael Nutter, along with members of five-county Metropolitan Caucus, announced yesterday the new EnergyWorks program and website offering low-interest loans to homeowners and commercialproperty owners to finance energy-efficient building improvements. Phillies relief pitcher Ryan Madson and his wife Sarah joined Mayor and spoke about their experience in renovating their own home to be energy-efficient and reduce their carbon footprint. Free home assessments will be given to first 20 residential loan applicants in each county. EnergyWorks is supported by a $25 million grant from the US Dept. of Energy’s Better Buildings Program. EnergyWorks helps owners find ways to reduce their building’s energy use, and below-market, low-interest loans help them pay for upgrades. Initiative hopes to issue more than 2,000 loans in next three years. Photo by Mitchell Leff 12 NOVEMBER, 2010

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Ceremonies At Washington Sq., Parkway Salute Military Service

CITY OFFICIALS including Mayor Michael Nutter, Controller Alan Butkovitz, and Councilman Bill Greenlee listen as Veterans Center Director Ed Lowry addresses group of veterans at Washington Square honoring Veterans Day.

MEANWHILE, Prince Hall Masons organized tribute to Black service personnel on Parkway. Their lodge is named after a Revolutionary War veteran.

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They’re Helping Homeless Vets

FRANK SILEO, left, congratulates Joe Eastman, Col. Al Flood and Chris Hill, organizers of Broad Street Ministry’s outreach program for homeless veterans, at fundraiser for their cause at Swanky Bubbles in Old City.

GOLD STAR family attended fundraiser to honor their lost son and brother: from left, Young, Ki & Crystal Moon. Fundraiser collected $1,500.

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POLITICALLY active Philadelphians reached out across party lines to ease tragic plight of city’s population of homeless veterans, including from left, Councilmanic aspirant Lou Lanni, Sheriff candidate Alan Kurtz and Ward Leader John Sabatina.

HAVING FUN while doing good are, from left, Erik Jacobs, attorney Andy Cole and columnist Adam Lang at Swanky Bubbles, a posh lounge on Front Street whose owner John Frankowski donated space and supplies to help veterans in dire need.

STATE REP. Mike McGeehan (D-Northeast) was privileged to join the members and friends of the Tacony Memorial American Legion Post 735 for their annual Veterans Day service. Solemn wreath-laying ceremony was held to honor those brave men and woman who made the ultimate sacrifice in their service to America to ensure our safety and freedom.

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Nominate Historical Marker The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and State Rep. Thomas P. Murt (R-Northeast) are reminding residents to submit nominations for a person, place or event for a Pennsylvania Historical Marker by Jan. 5, 2011.

marked must have had a significant impact on its times, is of statewide or national historical significance and occurred at least 10 years prior to the nomination. Additionally, a person being nominated must have been deceased for at least a decade.

The person, place or event to be

The nomination must include thor-

ough documentation with selected photocopies and bibliographies from primary and secondary sources and verification of the facts claimed.

For more information and a link to nomination forms, visit Murt’s website at RepMurt.com.

Rudmans Honored At Temple TV

HONORING Kal & Lucille Rudman, left, for their donation of $1.2 million to Temple University for its TUTV channel which debuted last week are, from left, Janet & Lew Klein and Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gluck of Temple’s School of Communications.

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