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Issue 940

February 1, 2018

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PA.’S PENSION CRISIS P. 3 TAXING DECISION P. 4 REDISTRICTING

JUDGE Shanese Johnson took her oath of office on a Bible held by her son Shane at her robing ceremony in City Hall Courtroom 653. January saw the inaugurations of 11 new judges in Philadelphia.

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EAGLES ON HIGH The Museum of Art honored the NFC Champion Eagles with a banner erected by museum staff on Tuesday.

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Academy Concert and Ball Is Sellout

L-R, CO-PRESIDENT of the Philadelphia Orchestra Ryan Fleur; Richard Worley, chairman of the Philadelphia Orchestra Board of Trustees, and his wife, Leslie Anne Miller, Prime Underwriters of the concert and ball; and Matthew Loden, interim co-president of the orchestra.

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L-R, GOV. TOM WOLF and First Lady of Pennsylvania Frances Wolf were delighted to join the sold-out crowd at the Academy of Music for the 161st Anniversary Concert and Ball. Photos by Bonnie Squires

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L-R, LARRY MCMICHAEL, ESQ.; Jennifer & Congressman Brendan Boyle; U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, Jr.; and Trish Wellenbach enjoyed the pre-concert reception in the Academy ballroom.

L-R, CARA & JOHN FRY with Adele Schaeffer. Fry, the president of Drexel University, cochaired the concert and ball; his wife Cara served on the advisory committee; and Schaeffer is the chairman emerita of the Academy Board of Trustees.

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L-R, SPEAKER of the House Mike Turzai, who is running for governor, and his wife Dr. Lydia Turzai join Aqua America CEO Chris Franklin and his wife on their way up to the Hyatt at the Bellevue dinner following the concert with Steve Martin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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L-R, AT THE PRE-CONCERT reception, Jim Brown, former chief of staff for Sen. Bob Casey, and his wife joined Carol & Judge Jim Fitzgerald and Pedro Ramos.

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Joe Torsella State Treasurer million in tax revenue in 2015 due to insufficient retirement savings by Pennsylvania residents. These amounts are projected to grow to $1.1 billion in extra public assistance costs and $106 million in lost revenue in 2030, for a total of $14.3 billion by 2030.

In 2015, the state spent $4.3 billion in assistance costs for elderly residents, more than half of which was for assistance for the 21% of the population with $20,000 or less in household income. State assistance costs would have been $702 million less if elderly households had sufficient retirement savings. By 2030, the state would spend $1.1 billion less if elderly households had sufficient savings. The total cost to the state in additional assistance costs is a cumulative $14.3 billion over the 20152030 period.

Pennsylvania’s elderly households spent $49.8 billion in 2015. They would have spent $2 billion more in 2015 had they had sufficient savings, a net loss in economic activity that grows to $4 billion in 2030.

The total loss in economic activity is $45 billion that is

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not injected into the economy through spending on goods and services.

The reduced economic activity means a loss of employment of more than 20,000 FTE jobs in 2015 and nearly 32,000 in 2030 and associated earnings.

The lost economic activity means a reduction in state revenues. The fiscal cost to the state will grow from $70 million in foregone tax revenues in 2015, to $106 million in 2030 – for a cumulative total of $1.4 billion over the 2015-2030 period.

The Task Force on Private Sector Retirement Security consists of State Sen. John Blake (D-Lackawanna), Senate Democratic Finance Committee Chair; State Sen. Scott Hutchinson (R-Butler), Senate Finance Committee Chair; State Rep. Bernie O’Neill (R-Bucks), House Finance Committee Chair; State Rep. Jake Wheatley (D-Allegheny), House Democratic Finance Committee Chair; Sarah Gill, AARP; Kevin Shivers, National Federation of Independent Business of Pennsylvania; Frank Snyder, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO; and Bob Jazwinski, Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Last week’s hearing focused on the “Impact of the Retirement Savings Crisis in Pennsylvania” with expert testimony from Econsult; the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office; and Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, Center for Retirement Initiatives.

In February, the Task Force will conclude the hearings after receiving expert testimony regarding the “Options to Address the Retirement Savings Crisis in Pennsylvania.”

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HE PENNSYLVANIA Treasury last week released the findings of an independent study it commissioned to evaluate the impact that insufficient retirement savings will have on the Commonwealth.

The study – undertaken

by Philadelphia’s Econsult Solutions, Inc. – is the first of its kind to quantify the fiscal and economic costs of insufficient savings, in the form of increased state public assistance costs and reduced tax revenue, household spending, and jobs.

The study was released as Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella convened the third hearing of Treasury’s Task Force on Private Sector Retirement Security. The hearings have been held across the state to publicly explore the retirement crisis facing the more than two million working Pennsylvanians who lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans.

“We’ve had the opportunity to receive expert testimony showing the barriers that prevent businesses from offering plans and the challenges facing employees who lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. But this independent study shows the collective fiscal impact this crisis will have on the State,” said Torsella. “Insufficient retirement savings will have far-reaching consequences that go well beyond individual implications. We can find a commonsense solution for Pennsylvanians to save now, or we can pay a steep price in increased budget deficits and lost economic activity later.”

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Soda Tax May Drive Mayoral Race

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BY JOE SHAHEELI HE STATE Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal on Philadelphia’s Sweetened Drinks Tax on an expedited basis. The decision they reach may shape the fate of Mayor Jim Kenney, whose brainchild it is, and with it the upcoming mayoral election.

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and Parks & Recreation advocates who want the investment from this tax. On the other side: beverage and grocery industries who fear losing business and jobs.

In the middle: the labor movement. Jobs preserved for Teamsters may not translate to jobs won for the building trades. It’s a touchy call, then.

Philadelphians for a Fair Future, the lobbying arm for the soda tax, hailed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to fast-track the case.

“The Court’s decision puts us one step closer to getting a resolution of this issue, which has enormous consequences for the City’s future. While we wait, the City remains unable to fully tackle decades of poverty and neglect that have devastated Philadelphia’s poorest citizens. The highly acclaimed expanded pre-K STATE REP. Jordan Harris led a Pathways to Pardons workshop at Dixon House in Pt. Breeze, aided by Lt. Gov. Mike Stack.

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program cannot be fully implemented, and the critically important Rebuild Initiative remains on hold, stalling the $500 million plan to revitalize parks, recreation centers, and libraries citywide,” PFF said in a statement.

Its members include Public Citizens for Children & Youth; Philadelphia Parks Alliance; Education Voters of Pennsylvania; Service Employees International Union; Center for Popular Democracy; the Alliance of Community Service Providers; the Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children; Men United for a Better Philadelphia;Ceiba; Action United; Aspira; the Center for Science in the Public Interest; Lodge 5 of the FOP; Local 22, IAFF; District Councils 33 and 47, AFSCME; and Youth United for Change.

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A study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health finds taxes on sweetened beverages may lead to an increase in purchases of alcoholic beverages. The same relationship seems to be holding true within Philadelphia, which imposed a 1.5 cent per ounce tax on sweetened beverages, including those with zero calories, in January 2017.

“Looking to see what might happen when soft drinks and other sugary beverages are taxed, British researchers found something interesting: people seem to buy less soda and more alcohol,” the article notes. “So, what about Philadelphia, which added a tax to all sweetened drinks a little more than a year ago? The same association appears to be holding here, (Cont. Page 5)

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Krasner’s Immigrant Stance Draws Heat DA Larry Krasner’s appointment of Caleb Arnold to a new position in the DA’s Office, to oversee the protection of immigrant rights, drew immediate heat from the Philadelphia Republican Party.

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GOP Incumbents Bail in Droves

Casey Hammered on Anti-Choice Stance

As the 2018 electoral season opens, Republican legislators in Southeastern Pennsylvania are running for the exits.

In Philadelphia, doyen State Rep. John Taylor (R-Northeast), who is Philadelphia’s chief spokesman in Harrisburg, is hanging it up this year. In the suburbs, numerous Republican state legislators are calling it quits as well.

This is no mystery. They see a Democratic wave coming, and nobody wants to end their career by being tossed on the beach in a general election.

It’s mostly Trump, of course. State elections are influenced by national moods.

There are no good 2018 Pennsylvania polls on Trump’s popularity. But the latest one put him at under 50% popularity in the Keystone State. And he is poison to educated suburban voters, especially women.

So, many observers are predicting a swing against the GOP in suburban General Assembly elections this fall.

That could be good news

Candidate in South Philadelphia’s 184th Legislative District, journalist Elizabeth Fiedler reports raising $52,724 raised as of the end of 2017 – not bad for a state Rep. race.

Fiedler said this fundraising total is more than just a number: It is a strong message that working people can run strong campaigns for office, and win.

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (DPa.) is not pro-life, even when he votes pro-life – according to his Republican foes.

The senator just supported a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. It makes exceptions for cases of rape or incest or when continuing the pregnancy would put a woman’s life at risk.

It looks pro-life to most Americans. But it didn’t receive the 60 votes it needs to advance in the Senate, where Republicans hold just 51 seats. Casey should be a valuable recruit for them; yet they’re not treating him like an ally.

Casey, a self-described prolife Democrat who is up for re-election this year, said his plan to vote in favor of the measure is consistent with his vote for a similar bill the Senate rejected in 2015.

Casey said he would rather have seen Senate Republicans take up other matters first, including funding for community health centers, which runs out on Feb. 8.

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urging continued congressional funding for these clinics, which he said provide 800,000 Pennsylvanians with health care.

Right-wing critics continue to charge that Casey is not anti-choice enough.

“While Sen. Casey announced that he will vote for the bill, his record proves that he is not a pro-life Democrat.,” said Congressman Lou Barletta (R-Luzerne), a Republican aspirant in the Republican primary to challenge Casey in the fall. Casey had a 100% voting record with the pro-abortion group NARAL on its most recent scorecard and 0% voting record with National Right to Life last year, he charged.

Barletta criticizes Casey for legislative language that compromises and balances governmental policies on abortion. Barletta is an anti-choice extremist who opposes moral standing or rights for prochoice citizens. He is opposed to all services by Planned Parenthood, even those not connected to abortion, because Planned Parenthood also provides abortion services.

The Governor’s Race: Drugs and Money Amid the 90-day Opioid Disaster Declaration, Gov. Tom Wolf urged the General Assembly to consider a set of bills aimed at furthering the declaration’s key initiatives.

Several pieces of legislation were passed recently, including Sen. Tom McGarrigle’s (R-Delaware) legislation allowing the Department of Drug & Alcohol Programs to regulate recovery houses that receive federal, state, or county dollars and serve individuals in recovery from substance use disorder.

Wolf is pushing for several new pieces of legislation.

SB 472, introduced by State Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), limits prescriptions for a controlled substance containing an opioid to seven days unless there is a medical emergency.

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for Democrats – but bad news for Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Regardless of any shift after the November election, Republicans will still control both houses of the General Assembly. If the Southeast wants anything done next year, it must rely on its remaining Republican legislators in Harrisburg. Who will be left there to advocate for us?

CONGRESSMEN Brendan Boyle, center L, and Dwight Evans received Environmental Leadership Awards from the statewide activist group PennEnvironment at a ceremony in City Hall. Photo by Wendell Douglas

Fiedler Opens

STATE REP CANDIDATE Elizabeth Fiedler, L, celebrated the opening of her campaign office at 1208 Tasker Street, welcoming almost 100 supporters. She thanked the group for their commitment and for their contributions of time, money, and donated food and office supplies.

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(Cont. From Page 4) with residents buying less soda and more booze lately.”

Some stores now charge more for non-alcoholic beverages than they charge for the strong stuff. For example, Cicione Beverage in Philadelphia charges $16.20 for a 24-pack of 12-oz. Coca-Cola cans; the same amount of Yuengling Premium costs $15.88.

The article cites a story from the Philadelphia Business Journal that notes the first year of the beverage tax left the city more than $13 million short of its revenue goal. A recent report by Oxford Economics, in partnership with the American Beverage Association, found significant declines in the Philadelphia economy after the tax pushed consumers to shop outside of the city. Both beverage sales and non-beverage sales dropped within Philadelphia and increased outside of city limits.

Anthony Campisi, a spokesman for the Ax the Beverage Tax campaign, said the British study made sense to him, considering how shoppers might make substitutions at the cash register if prices change. “It seems to undercut public-health arguments,” he said. “I can’t imagine public-health advocates wanted alcohol consumption to increase.”

The Oxford study found beverage sales within Philadelphia fell by 24% and increased outside the city by 14%. It indicated an employment decline of 1,192 workers, or $80 million in lost GDP, as a result of the tax.

Meehan stated, “The layers of lawlessness here are unreal. You have a radical leftist activist, who has been previously arrested, hired to be sure that documented criminals aren’t further subjected to the federal laws governing their immigration status. It is enough to make your head spin. Krasner is setting a precedent for dangerous levels of relativism that further erodes law and order in a city subject to some of the highest crime rates in the country, in all categories.

“We see the consequences of this weak leadership, which at their worst could cost lives and at their least will reduce hard-working people’s property values.”

Arnold was arrested during a protest at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 2000.

L-R, MALCOLM KENYATTA was endorsed in his race for the Democratic nomination in the 181st Legislative District by former DA candidate Joe Khan, Black Lives Matter organizer Asa Khalif and anti-gun activist Pastor Clarence Wright. Photo by Wendell Douglas

Victims Matter

DA LARRY KRASNER, L, and his team from the DA’s Office attended a hearing convened by Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr., R, in City Hall on the need to consider the needs of victims of crime. Photo by Wendell Douglas

Squilla Addresses

Councilman Mark Squilla, L, was the keynote speaker at the PA/DelVal chapter of Community Associations Institute State of the Industry Breakfast at the Union League.

CAI Regional Council Chair Gary A. Krimstock, Esq. of Fineman Krekstein & Harris P.C. was the moderator of the program.

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A Worthy Risk The News in Black & White

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LL YOU NEED to know about how desperate the outlook is for finding solutions to the opioid crisis can be summed up by one fact: Police Commissioner Richard Ross has been quoted as saying he has “an open mind” when it comes to Philadelphia becoming the first U.S. city to have safe injection sites for drug users.

Ross qualified that by adding that he had serious questions about how law enforcement would address

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MARK your CALENDAR Feb. 1- State Rep. Jared Solomon hosts House Democratic Policy Committee roundtable on landlord-tenant issues at Phila. Protestant Ho., 6401 Martins Mill Rd., 10 a.m.-12 m. For info: Nicole Brunner (717) 787-3555.

Feb. 2- State Sen. John Sabatina hosts Shrimp Night at Harmonia Cl., 2404 Orthodox St.,

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these proposed City-ordained sites, but when our top cop is more than willing to give what amounts to a sanctioned controlled-substance usage sanctuary, it’s plain to see the status quo is no longer the way to deal with an addiction crisis that Health Commissioner Thomas Farley described as “an epidemic of historic proportions.”

We agree. We have long been sounding the alarm over the rising tide of opioid-fueled death and destruction washing over our city and citizens. We applaud the willingness of the Kenney administration to take on such a paradigm shift, to endure the kneejerk jerks who will spew their reactionary drivel about nanny states enabling addicts.

The administration’s proposal, while a radical

departure, is far from hastily considered. Indeed, it has been more than a year in the making, and comes only after intensive study of how safe injection sites are administered in Canadian and European cities – and of how many lives and resources have been saved by their implementation.

If the city can give the green light to an experienced nonprofit organization that can provide medical staff to ensure the safety of addicts, as well as support staff to advise those under the thrall of opioids on how to break free – and if doing so will prevent adding any more names to a grotesquely metastasizing death toll, saving the city millions of dollars in treatment and social services – then we can only ask: How soon can we begin?

7-11 p.m. All you can eat, plus buffet & beer.

Tickets $35, table of 10 $350. For info: (215) 821-7606.

Feb. 4- United Republican Cl. hosts Super Bowl Party at 3156 Frankford Ave., 6-10 p.m.

Feb. 4- FOP hosts Casino Night at Lodge 5, 11630 Caroline Rd., 7-11 p.m. For info: (215) 629-3600.

Feb. 10- State Rep. Stephen Kinsey hosts Black Vets from all wars at Grace Bapt. Ch., 5942 Germantown Ave., 2-4 p.m. For info: (215) 849-6592.

Feb. 10- State Rep. Jim Roebuck hosts Campaign Announcement at Calvary Ctr., 801 S. 48th St., 2-4 p.m.

Feb. 11- 8th Police Dist. Advisory Commit-

tee hosts Vendor Fair at FOP Lodge 5, 11630 Caroline Rd., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 50 vendors. Food, raffle, 50/50, DJ. For info: 215) 686-3080.

Feb. 12- P h i la. Young Republicans host Cocktail Party at McGillin’s Olde Ale House, 1310 Drury St., 6-9 p.m. Featuring former Philly YR & Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley. Members $50, Nonmembers $75, Silver $125, Gold $250, Platinum $500.

For info: PhillyFYR@ gmail.com.

Feb. 13- State Rep. Jason Dawkins hosts Pardon & Expungement at 4667 Paul St., 6 p.m. For info: (215) 744-7901.

Feb. 13- S. Phila. Business Ass’n hosts Valentine’s Day Dinner & Wine Tasting at Popi’s

MAYOR Jim Kenney, C, greets rock star Jon Bon Jovi at the Hub of Hope as Council President Darrell Clarke looks on. Bon Jovi and other dignitaries cut the ribbon for this new site, located off the subway concourse at Broad & Arch Streets. It will provide a host of vital daytime services for the city’s homeless, the first such facility in the nation. It is a three-way partnership between the city, SEPTA and Project HOME.

Restaurant, 3120 S. 20th St., 6:30 p.m. Tickets $75. Proceeds benefit scholarship fund.

For info: spba1897@ gmail.com.

Feb. 14- State Rep. Joanna McClinton hosts Energy Forum at 12th Dist. Police Sta., 6448 Woodland Ave., 6 p.m.

For info: (215) 7486712.

Feb. 17- Pa. Veteran Boxers Ass’n hosts Fundraiser at VBA Cl., 2733 E. Clearfield St., 7-11 p.m. $5 cover, drink specials. For info: Fred Druding, Jr. (215) 221-2374.

Feb. 20- Judge Marsha Neifield leads Panel on Human Trafficking at Union League, 140 S. Broad St., 5:30 p.m.

For info: (215) 5636500.

Feb. 20- State

Rep. Joanna McClinton hosts Energy Forum at 18th Dist. Police Sta., 5510 Pine St., 6 p.m.

For info: (215) 7486712.

Feb. 23- State rep candidate Maggie Borski hosts Fundraiser at Harmonia Cl., 2404 Orthodox St., 7-10 p.m. Donations $25.

RSVP: votemaggienborski@gmail.com or (267) 415-6438.

Mar. 3- State Sen. Anthony Williams hosts Birthday Party at Hilton City Line Hotel, 4200 City Line Ave., VIP Reception 6 p.m., party 7-12 p.m. Young Professionals $75, Supporters $100, Friends $250, Hosts $1,000.

For info: Portia Fullard, Chavous Consulting (267) 888-4165.

Mar. 16- Pat Parkinson

hosts 57th Ward St. Patrick’s Party at Paddy Whack’s, 9241 Roosevelt Blvd., 7 p.m. Tickets $35. For info: (267) 773-3251.

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answer. “I hope nobody tries to tell me that that’s reform.”

Folmer continued, “Here we are, faced with an unreasonable timeline that does not allow us for openness and transparency, no details as to what lines might look like, little rationale for how the court felt like the Constitution was violated or how it might evaluate if any new maps meet its currently secret definition of what’s constitutional – and the distinct possibility that one person might be redrawing Pennsylvania’s congressional maps. If this is the reform those who have been scorching me in the press and on social media want, then we’ll see.”

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced on Friday the retention of Nathan Persily, a James B. McClatchy professor of law at Stanford Law School, “as an advisor to assist the court in adopting, if necessary, a remedial congressional redistricting plan.”

According to his Stanford biography, Persily has served as a special master or court-appointed expert to draw congressional and/or legislative districts in Georgia, Maryland, Connecticut, New York and North Carolina.

Sen. Andrew Dinniman (D-Chester) noted, however, it was the secret political (Cont. Page 14)

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ernment Committee Majority Chairman Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon), who said the litigation resulting in the current redistricting process put on hold ongoing reform efforts he was planning on addressing this session absent court intervention.

“Redistricting reform has long been a goal of mine and I was looking forward to scheduling hearings of the State Government Committee across the Commonwealth on proposed bills to change how we redistrict,” he said. “However, one of the advocacy groups chose to file a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the 2011 lines. While this was their right, it led to the postponement of hearings on potential redistricting reform.”

He said closed-door discussions with advocacy groups left him additionally frustrated as they failed to answer some of his more pressing questions about reform bills currently introduced in the General Assembly, particularly what happens if a citizens’ commission cannot agree to a map, and a special master has to step in and create a map to a court’s satisfaction.

“How is having one person decide how those maps are drawn be considered reform?” he asked. “Thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, we may soon have that

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BY JASON GOTTESMAN HE SENATE STATE Government Committee on Monday unanimously advanced a vehicle bill for any redistricting plan that may or may not be agreed to in the coming days.

The positioning of the bill was said to be important due to the tight timeline given by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court: the General Assembly has until Feb. 9 to get a new map to the governor based on the criteria used for the drawing of state legislative districts to prevent the court from using a newly appointed special master to draw a court-approved map based on non-partisan criteria.

The bill, SB 1034, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R-Jefferson) and Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman (R-Centre), is a shell by design.

As approved by the committee on Monday, the bill essentially just strikes out the current legislative districts and reserves the section to be refilled at a later date.

According to legislative sources, there is currently no agreement on any map that would redraw the Commonwealth’s 2011 congressional map and the bill was not necessarily drafted in anticipation of a pre-deadline agreement.

“The intent of this bill is obviously to move the process. There is no sleight of hand or trickery,” Sen. Scarnati said about the legislation Monday. “What we have gotten is a bad opinion from the state Supreme Court with an unconstitutional remedy. So, we are moving the bill; it’s a shell bill to move the process in order to accommodate the bad decision and we will address the unconstitutional remedy.”

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Black Tie Tailgate Opens Auto Show ENJOYING the show were, L-R, Jazelle Jones, first lady of the 4th Councilmanic District; Joy Norman; and Shari Williams, community outreach manager for the Marcellus Shale Coalition.

SAM STATEN, JR., Laborers Local 332 business manager, and wife Toni took in the show.

THE 2018 AUTO SHOW opened with glitz and glamor at the Convention Center. Auto dealer Frank Kerbeck and his Eagles-themed crew made a splash.

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LABORERS Local 413 leader James Harper, Jr. and his wife Tara were as stylish as a pair of Maseratis.

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SHEILA & COUNCILMAN Derek Green made an appearance.

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On the scene were, L-R, Laborers’ District Council Business manager Ryan Boyer, Kellan White and Ismail Shahid.

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The ladies were not to be excluded in congratulating Judge Brumbach: Carmella Jacquinto, Esq., L, and Karen Sugarman, campaign consultant for the Lt. Gov. Mike Stack.

COMMUNITY activists David Krain, L, and Jim Jenkins of Flags Across Philly were among the first to extend good wishes to the new jurist.

DANNY SULLIVAN attended the Brumbach reception, bringing congrats from Local 542 Operating Engineers.

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Black History Month Issue Knights of Labor Dan Grace, L, leader of Local 830 Teamsters, and Brian Bush, business manager of Local 19 Sheet Metal Workers, congratulate Judge Marissa Brumbach. Bush brought the best wishes of Gary Masino, Local 19 president.

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Joining the Judge Brumbach reception at Penn’s Landing Caterers were, L-R, Judges Amanda Cooperman, Joyce Eubanks and Charles Hayden.

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COMMON PLEAS Judge Amanda Cooperman congratulates Judge Brumbach’s father Lawrence Brumbach. Brumbach served as Judge Cooperman’s law clerk for many years.

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COURTROOM 653 was overflowing with well-wishers when Marissa Brumbach, Esq. took the oath of office as a Municipal Court judge.

Marissa’s parents join Congressman Bob Brady, R, as her son Carter Brumbach Hannan holds the Bible to administer the oath of office. Brady effusively praised Brumbach’s energetic career as a people’s lawyer and law clerk. Photos by Joe Stivala

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AST WEEK, DA LARRY KRASNER appointed CALEB U. ARNOLD to a new position in the Philly prosecutor’s office that will focus on protecting immigrants’ rights. Krasner said Arnold will help immigrants move through the criminal-justice system without facing “disproportionate consequences,” like deportation, because of their status.

Krasner noted that Arnold’s job will be to deal with resident aliens (people with Green Cards), temporary visa holders and illegal

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BY DENISE CLAY S I’M WRITING this, America is getting prepared for President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address.

To be honest, I was kind of surprised he deigned to make this particular speech.

One of the reasons the media outlets that dote on Trump tend to cite for why they love him so is that he has no respect for the conventions for the office he currently holds or the people he has to work with in Washington, so I figured

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aliens. Also, similar jobs in other municipalities have helped victims and witnesses with immigration issues to be able to stay here at least temporarily.

Arnold said the goal is to find “immigration-neutral consequences.” He added that some defendants could “face the same criminal consequence” but they don’t necessarily have the adverse immigration consequence that accompanies some of these charges. Both Krasner and Arnold emphasized an interest in the impact of criminal convictions for immigrants facing low-level convictions like minor drug offenses.

Krasner stressed that “nothing (he) is doing makes it impossible for the feds to do what they want to do.”

However, he did throw a bit of a gauntlet at the federal government when he said, “to the extent that there is less cooperation than we want, they may experience the same thing in return.”

I do appreciate the desire

to let a defendant plea to a charge that will not result in deportation if the facts of the case warrant that treatment. I also appreciate any actions by Arnold that may help a victim or witness who has questionable immigration status. I think the role of the DA’s office is to prosecute offenders and this entails working with victims and witnesses. I do not think it is the DA’s job to project defendants.

I would like to understand what would happen to American citizens who are caught committing the same crime.

Will they be afforded the same plea options?

Also, while Arnold did state the defendants would face similar criminal consequences but their crimes would not lead to deportation. I frankly do not understand how the consequences can be the same if the crime is reduced or “changed in name” to something less onerous.

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that it was totally within the realm of possibility that he’d blow the SOTU off.

But I forgot. It’s one of the presidential speeches that news organizations are forced to make time for.

Before cable television gave you the option of watching something else, the State of the Union provided a captive audience.

And if nothing else, our 45th president loves a captive audience.

Among the folks in that captive audience were the thousands of women who have decided to run for office in the wake of the Trump Inauguration and the Women’s March that followed it.

According to EMILY’s List, an organization that encourages women to run for office via financing and support, the Trump presidency has inspired about 25,000 women to take their shot at elected office.

In Pennsylvania, lots of

women are taking to the political stage in hopes of joining a Congressional delegation that currently has no women in it, and a state legislature that isn’t doing much better.

Here in Philadelphia, women have been involved in city politics for a long time. Heck, were it not for former City Councilwomen Marian Tasco, Mayor Jim Kenney would just be another former councilman looking for a job.

But more women have successfully entered the Thunder Dome that is Philadelphia politics since Trump took office, most notably Controller Rebecca Rhynhart. When she ran in the May primary in 2016 against incumbent Alan Butkovitz, no one gave her a shot, because it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than to defeat an incumbent in Philadelphia.

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RECENT ARTICLE on 43RD WARD high jinks seems written to simulate a meandering brook: not going anywhere fast. High jinks?

I last read that in a Nebraska paper. What are they? A recent special election to fill a state legislator seat saw a few arrests. The article thinks that it might be a window to “shenanigans” over the years of the city’s Democrat machine. How so? No evidence was presented. There has not been a MACHINE in Philly for 25 years! Use

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HE VERY POPULAR Marissa Brumbach was sworn in as judge of Municipal Court last week.

The VIPs packed into the City Hall courtroom.

Among those in attendance were democratic party CHAIRMAN CONGRESSMAN BOB BRADY and his capable deputy and former CITY CONTROLLER JONATHAN SAIDEL. A number of important labor leaders were there, including JOE ASHDALE of the Painters’ District Council 21 and JOHN KANE of the

of the word in articles only makes the writer COOL with readers who want to hear it.

But it should not be thrust on others. The story goes on to say a perception could be fed that election mischief is rampant. The way to FEED such thoughts is to write such BLARNEY. I recently recall the arrest of two grandmothers who wrote on the front of a voting machine (with lipstick, I think). That is “machine?” Did they get 30 years for it? High jinks, shenanigans and mischief – whew!

A feature about ME TOO politics taking down Bob Brady failed to win reader-fans as part of the me-toocool journalism. A writer wrote that electing DEMS to fill retiring Republican congressmen would reduce our CLOUT in Washington.

What clout? The writer, to me, seems leaning more and more to the GOP? Hmm. COPS VS. CIVILIAN traffic-ticket writers: Cops are NOT writing a lot of tick-

ets. Traffic Court revenue is down. What is your opinion?

TALK IS that the DA will look at police fatal shootings (?).Fifty of them – all justified. It would catch attention.

Down in Cape May, candidates are lining up to run for the vacated congressional seat. Keep in mind the best one: Sen. Jeff VAN DREW!... The Wildwood, N.J. visit of GOV. MURPHY accomplished little; it was QUICK. The veterans wreath-laying did not even introduce the American Legion District Commander.

So RENDELL made a pitch to Judge Genece BRINKLEY in the Meek Mill matter. It seems like a KOOKY plan.

The judge reacted correctly and did NOT ANSWER. What if EVERYONE called a judge with a deal? It should never have happened! A poor example for citizens.

ANTI-ABATEMENT stories are good fillers in newspapers – like writing on the DROP Program – and could (Cont. Page 12)

Plumbers Union Local 690.

Several key ward leaders were also there, including 58TH WARD LEADER JIM DONNELLY, 66B WARD LEADER MIKE McALEER and 56TH WARD LEADER JOHN SABATINA, SR. Later, there was a post-swearing-in celebration at the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union on Columbus Boulevard.

Criminal-justice reform champion STATE REP. JORDAN HARRIS hosted a Pathways to Pardons workshop. It was a packed house at Diversified Community Services on S. 20th Street in Point Breeze. DANNY PETERS and THURMOND BARRY were on hand.

These are two gentlemen who were sentenced to life without chance of parole and had their sentences commuted by LT. GOV. MIKE STACK and GOV. TOM WOLF. Highly regarded Delaware County STATE REP. MARGO DAVIDSON is consider-

ing running for Congress. In fact, a lot of people will now be running for Congress.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the congressional districts drawn by the Republican majority were unconstitutional, so they must be redrawn. Democrats will likely be in a position to pick up seats.

This is particularly true in the 7th Congressional District, where incumbent PAT MEEHAN slit his own throat politically. According to sources, he failed to listen to any of his close advisors and staff and went rogue to the media about his “soul mate” staffer. Philly media consultant DAN FEE referred to the case as one which Meehan went from dying a slow death from cancer to immediately committing hara kiri. Now all that is needed is a good Democrat to win the seat.

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Dan Martino is a Democratic candidate for the 177th Legislative District. Photo by Tony Shanks/Facebook

tary, Martino helped craft a Town Watch program to quell some of the crimes attributed to the area’s large addicted population. In the year since its inception, he says, the area has seen a 50 reduction in burglaries and a 30% drop in thefts.

But crime stats to the contrary, Martino, who makes his living as a graphic designer, isn’t exactly the lawand-order type. The newly announced candidate wants to argue for legislation to legalize needle exchange programs across the state, boost funding for harm-reduction organizations such as Prevention Point and, more divisively, advocate for supervised injection facilities in the city.

“Without safe injection sites, you’re condemning me and my neighbors to a lifetime of cleaning up needles,” Martino says. “You’re condemning me and my neighbors to a lifetime of witnessing people shooting up. You’re also condemning police, fire and EMTs to a lifetime of reversing overdoses. It’s not fair.”

The heavily gerrymandered 177th District includes parts of Fishtown, Port Richmond and May-

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O! HERE WE go again with this one for the older folks who remember when milk was delivered to the door, in glass bottles. They are real messages from the customer to the milkman that were placed in the empty bottles for his attention.

Dear milkman: I’ve just had a baby, please leave another one. Please leave an extra pint of paralyzed milk. Cancel one pint after the day after today. Please don’t leave any more milk.

All they do is drink it.

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fair, all of which have been hit particularly hard by the surge of opioid overdoses.

The North Delaware and River Wards municipal planning regions – parts of which the district covers – had the two highest rates of fatal overdoses per capita in Philadelphia in 2016, according to the city’s Department of Public Health.

While top Philadelphia officials are jockeying to open the first supervised injection facility in the nation, the fate of the proposal is still very much uncertain, and community support will play a decisive role.

“Everyone wants to move it away from them, but just pushing the problem around doesn’t make anyone’s life better. People are talking about the homeless and addicted population moving northward from Kensington – guess what, that’s this district,” Martino said. “The only way out of this mess is if it’s easier to get help than it is to get high.”

The self-styled outsider victories of Larry Krasner and Rebecca Rhynhart last year may lend confidence to a political unknown such as Martino, but district races in Philadelphia still operate under old provincial customs.

Martino’s opponents have stronger ties to ward leaders and Democratic kingmakers.

And while he may have some street activist credentials, he isn’t the only candidate in the 177th to put forth a drug-conscious platform.

Martino’s not expecting much in the way of bigname support.

“There are establishment candidates who are going to soak up all of the endorsements,” Martino said.

“I didn’t expect to have the Democratic machine in Philadelphia come and lay their hands on me.”

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BY MAX MARIN AN MARTINO visibly winces at the thought of being called a “politician.”

The 33-year-old Northeast Philly native rocks long black hair and tattoos, including one finger inked with a small skull and crossbones. He plays drums in local folk-punk band TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb.

“I don’t own a suit,” he says.

But in recent years, Martino has become something of an activist in his River Wards neighborhood of Olde Richmond, where drug policy and public safety intertwine every day. He built a crime watch group.

He organized an overdose awareness march last year, and is often cited in media reports about the area’s drug problem.

It’s that experience that has inexorably guided Martino into politics: On Wednesday, he joined the pool of Democratic candidates gunning to replace longtime Republican Rep. John Taylor, who retires at the end of this term, in Pennsylvania’s 177th House district.

In a midterm primary otherwise filled with boilerplate Democratic platforms, Martino’s candidacy raises the question of whether the battle for the 177th seat could be a single-issue race.

Could a strong approach to the opioid crisis and its attendant woes be a ticket to victory in the neighborhoods hit hardest?

“It’s becoming the biggest quality-of-life issue in the district,” Martino says.

“The crime issues are tied into the drug problem, and the city’s poverty level fuels the drug trade.”

Through the Olde Richmond Civic Association, where he serves as secre-

a baby two months old and 11 did not know about it until a neighbor told me. Please send me details about cheap milk as I am stagnant. Milk is needed for the baby. Father is unable to supply it.

From now on please leave two pints every other day and one pint on the days in between, except Wednesdays and Saturdays when I don’t want any milk. My back door is open. Please put milk in fridge, get money out of cup in drawer and leave change on kitchen table in pennies, because we want to play bingo tonight.

Please leave no milk today. When I say today, I mean tomorrow, for I wrote this note yesterday. Milkman, please let dog out and put newspaper inside the screen door. P.S. Don’t leave any milk at No. 14 until further notice … either he is dead or on vacation.

If you had a milkman, I know you have written notes like them and you do remember them.

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gate behind you because the birds keep pecking the tops off the milk. Milkman, please could I have a loaf but not bread today? Please cancel milk. I have nothing coming into the house but two sons on welfare. Sorry not to have paid your bill before, but my wife had a baby and I’ve been carrying it around in my pocket for weeks.

Sorry about yesterday’s note. I didn’t mean one egg and a dozen pints, but the other way ’round. When you leave my milk, please knock on my bedroom window and wake me because I want you to give me a hand to turn the mattress.

Please knock. My TV’s broken down and I missed last night’s “Game of Thrones.”

If you saw it, will you tell me what happened over a cup of coffee?

My daughter says she wants a milkshake. Do you do it before you deliver or do I have to shake the bottle?

Please send me a form for cheap milk, for I have

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE - Parcel#: 172506200 / 108N12-42 - WHEREAS, on May 03, 2006, a certain mortgage was executed by Nevader D. Strong, as mortgagor in favor of Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, a Subsidiary of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County in Mortgage Document Number 51439139 (“Mortgage”); and WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 6247 North Beechwood Street Philadelphia, PA 19138, parcel number 172506200 / 108N12-42(“Property”); and WHEREAS, the Property was owned by William C. Strung and Nevader D. Strung by virtue of deed dated May 22, 1963 and recorded May 23, 1963 in Book CAD 2163; Page 465; and WHEREAS, William C. Strong died on or around 1994. By operation of law title vests solely in Nevader D. Strong and William C. Strong is hereby released of liability pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 1144; and WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), pursuant to an assignment recorded on November 1, 2011 in Document Number 52407427, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; and WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage (paragraph 9 (a)(i)), as the property ceases to be the principal residence of Nevader D. Strong and that upon this the entire principal balance becomes due and owing, and that no payment was made, and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this Notice; and WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of November 29, 2016 is $76,447.73 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date; and WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable; NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, l2 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 29, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on September 29, 2011 in Misc. Instrument #: 52395684, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, notice is hereby given that on February 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM at the Southeast Entrance of Philadelphia City Hall located at Broad Street and Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate in the 17th formerly part of the Fiftieth Ward of the City of Philadelphia. BEGINNING at a point on the Easterly side of Beechwood Street at the distance of ninety-five feet Southwardly from the Southerly side of Medary Avenue, thence extending South eighty-three degrees fifteen-minutes East along the Southerly side of a certain five feet-wide alley, seventy-five feet-to a certain other alley four feet wide which extends Southwardly and communicates with a certain other four feet wide alley at its Southernmost end which extends Westwardly into the said Beechwood Street, thence extending South six degrees forty-five minutes West, along the first above described four feet wide alley, seventeen feet and three-eighths inches to a point, thence extending North eighty-two degrees fifty minutes West passing through the middle of a party wall seventy-five feet to the said Easterly side of Beechwood Street, thence extending North six degrees forty-five minutes East, along the said Easterly side of Beechwood Street, sixteen feet six and three-quarters inches to the first mentioned point and place of beginning. BEING KNOWN AS premises 6247 Beechwood Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. BEING Parcel: 172506200 / 108N12-42. The sale will be held on February 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM at the Southeast Entrance of Philadelphia City Hall located at Broad Street and Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $76,447.73 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date. Ten percent (10%) of the highest bid is the deposit required at the sale. The amount that must be paid to HUD by the mortgagors or someone acting on their behalf so that the sale may be stayed is the total delinquent amount of $76,447.73 as of November 29, 2016, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement. There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale. When making their bid, all bidders, except the Secretary, must submit a deposit totaling ten percent 10% of the Secretary’s bid as set forth above in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of ten (10%) percent must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyance fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them. The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for fifteen (15) days, and a fee will be charged in the amount of $150.00 for each fifteen (15) day extension requested. The extension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due. If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder’s deposit will be forfeited, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Representative, offer the Property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein.

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WALKING the BEAT (Cont. From Page 10) prey on our fears (?). The real-estate tax abatement is the single biggest motivator for new construction or rehab work in our city!

SO WHAT if the RICH use it? They have the funds to develop! Let Councilman Alan DOMB study how to improve it. Call it what it is: SINE QUA NON! TRAFFIC COURT: An election was held for Traffic Court judges a few years back and good folks like Marnie AUMENT-LOUGHREY and Omar SABIR were elected

by THE PEOPLE. Then the Legislature eliminated the position – in effect NULLIFYING AN ELECTION! The candidates expended funds to campaign, then saw the election rug pulled from under them with no reimbursement. I felt like it was a STOLEN election!

The TEMPLE STADIUM brouhaha has slogged on and on. State Sen. SHARIF STREET, take the helm and resolve this issue!

God Bless Josh SHAPIRO, State Attorney General, for sticking to his position on Chesapeake Oil, which threatens to pull out.

Go. Cromwell said, “Begone, for all the good you have done.”

The Shuba-B 11,000 container ship will arrive in Philly in early FEBRUARY. It is the LARGEST EVER to visit Philly’s Packer Terminal – equal to the length of TWO CITY HALL TOWERS, and 150-foot beam (wide). All possible due to river dredging and Panama Canal widening.

You schedule a hearing at BAA, 9th & Filbert, for a parking ticket, and find the waiting room like a doctor’s office. Do they OVER-SCHEDULE? To use a lavatory, you must exit – and risk missing your case being called, and walk

around the corner to the parking garage into rest rooms marked “employees only.” What is Jeremiah CONNER doing about this?

Rania MAJOR, Esq., became the new President of DEMOCRATIC WOMEN in Philly. She brings a new dawn of creativity and energy to the group!

JEFF SESSIONS, U.S. Attorney General, will be the speaker in the UNION LEAGUE for the Lincoln Day Lunch. NO POLITICS, Jeff; we want to hear about LINCOLN! The best parts of the event are free: 11:30, outside, the Union Army is assembled with rifle salute, and Lincoln appears for the Gettysburg Address. Kids should see it! Also the parade after lunch to Independence Hall from the League for a ceremony there.... The League will host a distinguished panel on HUMAN TRAFFICKING on Feb. 20 including President Judge Marsha NEIFIELD. Call the League to RSVP. City Controller Rebecca RHYNHART fired Frank OLIVER, Jr., a long-time older employee. He has filed a wrongful-firing suit.

Did no one vote for Controller in the 29th? Her AGENDA should mirror those of Alan BUTKOVITZ – designed not for headlines or appeal to newer voters.

CITY HALL SAM (Cont. From Page 10) DAYLIN LEACH that a congressional run is unwise.

Some think STATE REP. MADELEINE DEAN would be a good candidate for the seat. She is currently running for lieutenant governor.

With just a little bit of tweaking, at least three of these congressional seats could turn Democratic.

Even when Democrats vote in higher numbers statewide, Republicans have still won the seats. But the court has said this must end – and it will.

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But she did it. That’s progress.

Congressman Bob Brady faces competition from two women – former Deputy Mayor Nina Ahmad and former Wells Fargo Vice President Michele Lawrence – for the seat he currently holds.

Several of Philadelphia’s incumbent state legislators are also looking at competition from women seeking office.

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE - Parcel#: 101380300; 145N21-76 - WHEREAS, on September 25, 2009, a certain mortgage was executed by Beulah B. Blackwell, as mortgagor in favor of Generation Mortgage Company as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County in Mortgage Philadelphia Document Number 52131241 (“Mortgage”); and WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 1903 Penfield Street Philadelphia, PA 19138, parcel number 101380300; 145N21-76 (“Property”); and WHEREAS, the Property was owned by Beulah B. Blackwell, by virtue of deed dated February 9, 1967 and recorded February 14, 1967 in Book: 911; Page: 009; and WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), pursuant to an assignment recorded on January 22, 2013 in Philadelphia Document Number 52587735, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; and WHEREAS, BEULAH B. BLACKWELL died on March 14, 2015 intestate and is survived by her heir(s)-at-law, ROBERT NELSON; and WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage (paragraph 9 (a)(i)), as Beulah B. Blackwell died on March 14, 2015, and that upon the death the entire principal balance becomes due and owing, and that no payment was made, and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this Notice; and WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of November 14, 2017 is $158,677.86 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date; and WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable; NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, l2 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 29, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on September 29, 2011 in Misc. Instrument #: 52395684, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, notice is hereby given that on February 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM at the Southeast Entrance of Philadelphia City Hall located at Broad Street and Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, SITUATE on the Northerly side of Penfield Street (40 feet wide) at the distance of 348 feet 1 1/2 Eastwardly from the Easterly side of Andrews Avenue (60 feet wide) in the 50th Ward of the City of Philadelphia.

CONTAINING in front or breadth on the said Penfield Street 21 feet 10 1/2 inches and extending of that width in length or depth Northwardly between parallel lines at right angles to the said Penfield Street, passing partly through the center line of a 9 inch party wall on the West, 70 feet to the center line of a certain 12 feet wide driveway which extends Eastwardly from the said Andrews Avenue communicating at its Easternmost end thereof with a certain other 12 feet wide driveway which extends Northwardly from the said Penfield Street to 74th Avenue. The Easternmost 6 feet of the said lot being the Westernmost moiety of the second above mentioned 12 feet wide driveway. BEING N. 1903 Penfield Street. TOGETHER with the free and common use, right, liberty and privilege of the aforesaid driveway as and for an automobile driveway, passageway and watercourse at all times hereafter, forever in common with the owners, tenants and occupiers of the other lots of ground bounding thereon and entitled to the use thereof. BEING parcel number: 101380300; 145N21-76. The sale will be held on February 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM at the Southeast Entrance of Philadelphia City Hall located at Broad Street and Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $158,677.86 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date. Ten percent (10%) of the highest bid is the deposit required at the sale. The amount that must be paid to HUD by the mortgagors or someone acting on their behalf so that the sale may be stayed is the total delinquent amount of $158,677.86 as of November 14, 2017, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement. There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale. When making their bid, all bidders, except the Secretary, must submit a deposit totaling ten percent 10% of the Secretary’s bid as set forth above in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of ten (10%) percent must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyance fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them. The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for fifteen (15) days, and a fee will be charged in the amount of $150.00 for each fifteen (15) day extension requested. The extension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due. If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder’s deposit will be forfeited, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Representative, offer the Property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder. There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein.

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(Cont. From Page 10) I already thought the police and the DA’s office was not focusing on low-level drug crimes, so why do we need Arnold to look into this also?

If this job is important, and it may well be, it should be in the Public Defender’s Office. This job appears to be primarily about defendants who are advised by private or court-appointed attorneys. Apparently Arnold will be paid about $75,000 annually. Maybe Krasner’s benefactor GEORGE SOROS could donate those funds to the Public Defender’s Office.

I am referring to Arnold by the surname, as Arnold wants to be called by gender-neutral pronouns. Sorry, I am loath to refer to a person as “it.” I find most other gender-neutral pronouns are not found in the English language (as I know it) or plurals (“they”) applied to singular individuals in a manner inconsistent with my understanding of proper grammar.

This week Republican City Committee’s ward leaders in the 2nd Congressional District endorsed businessman KAHILL JACKSON as their nominee to run against CONGRESSMAN DWIGHT EVANS in November. This con-

gressional seat includes parts of Northwest and Southwest Philadelphia as well as Center City west of Broad Street. The district also includes Lower Merion and Narberth. Given the status of a recent ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, this district might change. The Lower Merion Republicans have not voted to endorse for this seat. They may not, in the hope they will no longer be in the district.

Until 2013, Lower Merion was in the 6th Congressional District, and that seat is currently held by Republican RYAN COSTELLO. While the districts might change, RCC looked at congressional and State Committee candidates based on current congressional districts. State Committee nominees will be elected by Republican voters in the May primary. Philadelphia has 12 State Committee seats. The RCC chairman automatically has a seat and the other 11 are elected. Republicans in the 1st, 2nd and 13th Congressional Districts were allocated four, three and four State Committee seats respectively.

The endorsed candidates are TERRY DINTINO, MARIA McCOLGAN, MIKE CIBIK, CHRIS VOGLER, CALVIN TUCKER, WALT VOGLER, DENISE FUREY, PEG RECUPIDO, CAMILLE McCOLGAN, JOE GIEDEMANN and DAN TINNEY. of a man who bragged about treating women’s body parts the way one would usually treat a bowling ball, a man who has never seen an anti-female policy he didn’t want to implement, I guess we can consider the women that are now running for office the bright side.

Granted, if many of these same women had voted for a woman in the last presidential election – 54% of white women voted for President Trump despite his attitudes toward women – the sense of urgency might not have been so necessary.

Next week, we’ll take a look at that.

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(Cont. From Page 7) process used that was the constitutional flaw in the maps – something that should not be repeated regardless of who draws the new and future maps.

“The way it was done last time gave very little input for the citizens or for the Legislature,” he said. “It was the actions of this Legislature that forced the court to intervene.

When we don’t follow the Constitution about congruity about districts, when we have districts that were pushed – like Rep. Meehan’s district – that were pushed by certain individuals here...we needed the courts to step in because we didn’t follow the Constitution in the first place.”

The movement of the bill at the state level occurred while the General Assembly awaits a potential stay in the enforcement of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s order from the U.S .Supreme Court.

While Scarnati and Speaker of the House Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) applied for a stay to the nation’s highest court last week, no official stay deci-

sion has come down.

Meanwhile, other parties have joined in on that federal litigation through the filing of amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Among them, joining with the Republican legislative leaders in support of a stay, are the Republican Secretaries of State of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and South Carolina.

Their brief agrees with the Pennsylvania Republican leaders who argued that the State Supreme Court’s order of a map redraw by Feb. 15 could “cause chaos in their states” should similar injunctive relief be granted in similar cases.

“The expectation of voters and candidates will be changed on short notice, and the interests of overseas and uniformed services voters will have to be protected,” they wrote. “Strict federal time limits govern the transmittal of absentee ballots to overseas and uniformed-service voters, and amici are legally responsible for compliance with those time limits.”

Also intervening, respective of the other states and

each other, were Pennsylvania’s Republican Party and – as a group – Pennsylvania’s Republican congressional delegation.

Delegation members said they believe the stay should be granted since the members and voters already engaged in the current political process will be irreparably harmed by the rapid redraw as outlined in the state supreme court’s order.

“The state court’s directive will forestall and impede the possibility of a full and vigorous campaign in the various congressional districts, which will not only harm the candidacy of many of the Amici Members, but will also significantly hamper the ability of the Amici Members’ constituents and voters to fully engage in the political process,” they wrote.

Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. Mike Stack also have attorneys of record listed on the US Supreme Court docket, but have not made any briefs made publicly available.

Last week, in announcing the appointment of his own expert to evaluate any map delivered to him by the legislature, the governor doubled down on his map expectations.

“I’ve made it very clear: This is our chance to have a fair map – if the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t issue a stay to the Republicans, then I’m going to have the ability to make sure, finally, we get a fair map with the U.S. House of Representatives seats here in Pennsylvania,” he said.

“I’m not willing to play any more games and the people of Pennsylvania are tired of gerrymandering – it’s time to move to a fair map. That’s what I’m dedicated to, that’s what I promised, and that’s what I’m going to deliver.”

Jason Gottesman is the Harrisburg bureau chief of the PLS Reporter, a news website dedicated to covering Pennsylvania’s government.

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BY MICHAEL A. CIBIK AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY BOARD CERTIFIED uestion: What are five more silly reasons not to file for bankruptcy?

Answer: 1. You can’t be sued to collect on a debt.

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wages garnished.

As disappointed as I know you are about this fact, you will be able to keep all of your hard earned money.

When you file a bankruptcy, a debt collector can’t keep taking money out of your pay, and the discharge that you receive prevents them from starting up a garnishment once the bankruptcy is over.

3. You may have disposable income.

That’s right. Money to pay for such frivolous things as food, clothing and medicines. You’ll be livin’ La Vida Loca!

4. You can keep both of your kidneys.

Seriously, selling body parts to pay your creditors is

way too overrated, and you never know when a friend or loved one may need a donor.

5. You will probably get more sleep.

You will spend less time staying awake at night watching various fly-by-night companies telling you how they can consolidate your debts, reduce your money payments, reduce the amount you owe your creditors, win the war for the Allies and cure cancer.

Bankruptcy is a sure thing. It gets rid of your debts and allows you to get a fresh start. Debt-consolidation companies aren’t.

Next Week’s Question: Does your bankruptcy trustee surf social media too?

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Sure, that sheriff or process server who comes to your door at 5:00 a.m. is a really nice guy, and you’ll miss those early-morning visits, but the fun has to end sometime.

More than ever, creditors and debt collectors are suing people to collect on debts. In fact, these days, I see more and more clients that have been sued over debts of $1,000 or less.

When you file a bankruptcy, it stops all collection actions. This includes lawsuits.

And once the debts are discharged, the creditors are forever barred from trying to collect on the debt.

2. You won’t have your

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Salute to Labor

On April 26th, The Philadelphia Public Record will publish its first annual Salute to Labor Special Issue and award ceremony. It will feature five Delaware Valley organized labor leaders who have each made unique contributions to the labor movement and to the community as a whole. Please nominate a person, or persons, in the Philadelphia labor world deserving of this recognition.

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Rising Star: Youthful project executives who deserve recognition for their talent, their success and their growth.

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