our travails.... At the same time, I got emails from conservative blabber buzz. It was full of UGLY ANGER and verbose venom. I wrote back that this is the WRONG TIME to spout division. BIRTHDAYS: Happy Born Day to Judge Shanese JOHNSON – role model; State Sen. Sharif STREET, man of great energy; Sharon VAUGHN, 42nd Ward leader and innovator; and Al DEZZI, father of Philly recycling! DEATHS: Eric VACCA of Chestnut Hill passed from cancer complications. I served in uniform with Maj. Vacca, who operated with his high code of ethics. Dorothy LITZ passed at 92. Loyal wife of Jack LITZ, ESQ. Jack was one of THREE gents who claimed to be leader of the 39th Ward during a turbulent time. Congrats to Pat BIANCIULLI, Esq. for 18 years at IBEW Local 98; Dan STEVENSON with eight years at Rivers Casino; Ryan RAIKER as director of digital management at ABBY Inc. Also to John LOTT for 12 years at Fox News! THANKS to Rania MAJOR, Esq., who got the word
out citywide to lawyers and law enforcement on courts and jails, day-by-day operations and procedures during our virus troubles. What to do, how to do it, or not to do it in filings, hearings and visits; was explained on her own time to many via Facebook. You can call her with a question and she will call you back with an answer.... Thanks, too, to the DA’s OFFICE for working up a list of pre-agree on various motions and filings to ease the strain on the courts!... Thanks to the Hospital Workers Union for finding masks and gloves in distributor warehouses, and placing hospitals in DIRECT contact with distributors. DOG TV: Would you believe it – a TV channel for dogs? The programming may be boring to HUMANS (a dog walking and sniffing) but dogs enjoy it. I read where dogs do not see what we see on TV – something about the pixels in an image. Then I was told that was due to analog broadcast, while dogs can SEE a digital broadcast (?). My friend Harry WEIMAR has two dogs who sit in front of DOG TV with rapt attention and will not be disturbed!
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(Cont. From Page 4) knowing about it ahead of time? Nobody can move this amount of money around without study, organization and control – not in the private sector, not in the public sector. Consider, then, that the hard-working bureaucrat who cut you that check may, in fact, be “essential.”
City Workers Plan For Peace This Year FOP Lodge 5 has welcomed a one-year contract extension in light of the pandemic. The agreement includes 2.5% for the Police Department, 2.25% for the Sheriff’s Office and 2% for the Register of Wills.
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(Cont. From Page 10) A better tactic is to realize that this is a national emergency and, like Trump or not, accept him as the chief executive. It’s OK to hate the general but it’s not OK to try and sabotage him when we’re at war. Same goes for the president.
Observers expect the Ken- 15 ney administration to come up with similar amicable agreements with all other City unions in short order.
Violent Crime Down Around Town We cannot end without a tribute to some seldom-appreciated Philadelphians: our violent-crime community. A study of a late March week found violent crime down 14% compared to the same week in 2019. Apparently, assailants are trying to practice social distance like the rest of us. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen! An unfortunate finding was that gun homicides remained high. Shooters are not inhibited by social distancing, it seems. Most Americans just want to be safe and want to get through this scary time. Most citizens could not care less about politics while this is going on. Check Our News & Calendar Daily Updates @ www. phillyrecord.com
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(Cont. From Page 10) the taxes went up EVERY YEAR, with the 1st Councilmanic District hit hardest. Determining your market value uses a comparable-sales model known as a GMA, an amoeba-like, blobshaped scribble. Developers are discouraged from developing and young couples dismayed at the slow loss of the full 10-year abatement, the single biggest reason for development here. Rent has risen to over $1,000 a month in desired areas. You can get lower rents mostly in opioid-ravaged Kensington. The word had gotten out to young professionals in Washington and New York that Philly was a low-cost city to move to – and commute to the Big Apple if needed. No longer. Rising rents will leave our POOR with no affordable units. These are self-inflicted wounds. We will be FOREVER changed by the coronavirus. More reliance on technology in business and education will be seen. Philly school kids will mostly have computers. I have already
taken part in two ZOOM meetings with two groups. The political virtual TOWN HALL was begun in the Joe BIDEN campaign. Did you notice that the number of ROBO-calls seems to have diminished? One that I used to get had a Mexico area code. I texted them in Spanish to stop. To my surprise, they actually answered: “We will keep calling you.” On computers for Philly school students, columns in the Philadelphia Public Record had long suggested that businesses purchase them for individual classrooms and get their name on a classroom plaque. Computers powered by a hand crank were developed for just under $200 each for Third World countries. But kids in Third World countries – and in the USA – would nowadays not be seen with one of those models: not cool! I got a postcard entitled “President TRUMP’S Coronavirus Guidelines for America” in large, bold letters. On the other side was the standard instructions: Wash hands, stay inside. This was a BLATANT POLITICAL PIECE taking advantage of
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