Philadelphia Free Press 03/03/2021

Updates on Bob Christian… ...and the University City Review and Philadelphia Free Press

Philadelphia Free Press, Bob Christian, came down with a very bad case of the coronavirus (Covid-19).

Today, we would like to ell over three let you know Bob’s current months ago, we situation.

He was released sent out an email from Jefferson University blast as well as Facebook Hospital the first week of notifications that the editor February, no longer carryand publisher of the Uniing Covid-19 with him, but versity City Review and he suffers from the damage Center City Philadelphia's Community

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that the virus has done and is working on overcoming some of those issues. He is in a special rehab now to wean off the ventilator. After that, he will be going for additional rehab to get his strength back.

All this to say that Bob faces a lengthy recovery.

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On the newspaper front: We intend to publish our digital editions again which will come out twice a month, on the first and third Wednesday of each month.

In addition, we started the new year with a new website. This is a work in progress as we develop the depth and broadness of our local coverage of the neighborhoods we serve. Please check it out at www.phillypressreview.com . Your comments are always welcomed!

Additionally, we received a very generous Covid-19 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to help our operation navigate these difficult times.

We want to express how grateful we are to our community and our readership, as well as to our advertisers who make it possible for us to start to publish X again.

Finally, we also want to ... thank all those many, many people who have contacted Vision of the American Commerce Center us with concern and interest about Bob’s progress. rett Miller, Vice President of progress that when the AmeriYour thoughts and prayers the Philadelphia division of can Commerce Center (ACC) for Bob’s recovery continue Hill International, Inc., told me finally got built, it will create to be much and Pageappreciated x when the project was still in continued on page 4 meaningful.

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City Safari: And it died…a Philadelphia story about architecture

By Thom Nickels Contributing Editor

not to mention a striking 300 foot spire (described by most who have saw the design as hen it comes to “iconic and breathtaking”) that Philadelphia skywould make it taller than the scrapers that never Empire State building, never got off the drawing board, saw the light of construction. one example comes to mind: For Philadelphians excited Philadelphia, architects Gene about the prospect of a megaKohn and Bill Louie of Kohn skyscraper as potentially Pedersen Fox (creators of the changing Philadelphia’s repucity’s Mellon Bank Center with tation from a “connecting” city its iconic pyramid top), 1,500 to New York and Washington foot high American Commerce to a world class destination, Center, which never became a this was not good news. Had reality. the idea for the project surThe project, which was to vived it would have provided include a 26-story hotel and over 2,000 construction jobs to 6-stories of street accessible re- the city over the 3-year period. tail along 18th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia developer Gar-

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FEMA, opens the Center City Vaccination Site, located at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Wednesday, March 3rd

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ast week, FEMA and the City of Philadelphia announced a partnership to establish a Community Vaccination Center (CVC) - the Center City Vaccination Center- which will be located at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

The goal of establishing this joint federal pilot site is to continue expanding the rate of vaccinations in the City of Philadelphia in an efficient, effective, and equitable manner, with a focus on communities with a high risk of COVID-19 exposure and infection.

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This site is in addition to and in support of Philadelphia’s existing core network of vaccine distribution sites, which are rooted in key communities throughout the city. This

core network includes federally qualified health centers, pharmacies and health care providers.

Vaccines for this center are provided to the City of Phila-

delphia above and beyond the regular allocations and will not affect supply of ongoing vaccine distribution efforts in Philadelphia. Philadelphia has received its own allocation of vaccines, separate from Pennsylvania’s since the beginning of the vaccination mission. The additional vaccines are made possible through increases in production and availability.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Interest Form available at: phila.gov/vaccineinterest.

Registrants will be contacted when eligible and there is a vaccine available. If residents have issues filling out the online form, they can call 311.

There are no walk-up appointments. Individuals who show up without a scheduled appointment cannot receive a vaccine.

The vaccine appointment confirmation message will have all details necessary for the day of their vaccination appointment. Vaccination appointments may be given at the Center City Philadelphia Vaccination Site or at one of the City of Philadelphia’s other vaccination sites.

A government issued ID or utility bill with a Philadelphia address is necessary to provide proof of identity and contact information the day of the appointment at all Philadelphia vaccinations sites.

There will be no walkup appointments. All appointments will be scheduled by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Epidemiological risk factor and geographic location are the primary determining factors for Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s appointment timing and locations.

The City of Philadelphia is currently scheduling vaccine appointments for registrants in Phases 1a and 1b.

The Center City Vaccination Center will operate from 8am until 8pm, 7 days per week, for at least the next 6 weeks.

Clinical staff will be a mix of federal partners, including uniformed military providers, and volunteers from the Philadelphia Medical Reserve Corps. U.S. Army North is serving as coordinating agency for the Department of Defense’s COVID-19 response in support of FEMA. A 222-person element from the U.S. Marine Corps is expected to

arrive in Philadelphia this weekend. More information on the DoD’s support to FEMA can be found here: https:// www.arnorth.army.mil/ jflcc/pages/jflcc-pressreleases.aspx The Center City Philadelphia Vaccination Site is accessible by a variety of public transportation options and passenger drop-off locations, as well as several nearby parking garages. The Pennsylvania Convention Center occupies a central, accessible location that is served by a robust municipal transportation system and is served by a significant number of advocacy and private non-profit organizations that can best serve isolated or underserved populations.

The site will have signage with directions for clients with access and functional needs and non-English speaking clients in five languages, with additional language support on call as needed. There will be

Coronavirus Restrictions in Pennsylvania (1=Fewest, 25=Avg.): • 16th – Requirement to Wear a Face Mask in Public • 48th – Workplace Temperature Screening • 18th – State Guidance on Customer Health Checks at Restaurants • 46th – Travel Restrictions • 1st – Large Gatherings Restrictions • 1st – Strictness of “Shelter in Place” Order • 22nd – Reopening of Non-Essential Businesses • 20th – Reopening of Restaurants and Bars • 15th – Working from Home Requirements/ Recommendations Note: Rankings are based on data available as of 12:30 p.m. ET on March 1, 2021.

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an assisted check-in area and process for clients with access and functional needs. There will be on-site translation in Spanish and American Sign Language (ASL) with additional language capability on call as needed. Wheelchairs will be available.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

(ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection will not conduct enforcement operations at or near vaccine distribution sites or clinics.

More information on the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Vaccination Plan can be found at: www.phila. gov/programs/coronavirus-disease-2019-cov-

id-19/vaccines FEMA’s mission is helping people before, during, and after disasters. FEMA Region 3’s jurisdiction includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. Follow us on Twitter at twitter. com/femaregion3 and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/ company/femaregion3

Pennsylvania schools can delay standardized testing until fall

By Christen Smith The Center Square

ennsylvania’s 501 school districts will have the option to delay federally mandated standardized tests until fall.

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The Department of Education confirmed over the weekend it drafted a letter to the federal government indicating that its schools can reschedule the assessments for the summer or fall in light of the pandemic.

“Since the start of this pandemic, our work has been centered on protecting the health and safety of students, educators, and school staff across the state,” acting Secretary of Education Noe Ortega said. “Our decision to extend the testing window continues to prioritize their health and safety and creates needed flexibilities for our unique school communities.”

The announcement comes after the U.S. Department of Education recommended states consider the idea if they were concerned about the impact of pandemic on the ability for students to complete the assess-

ments. States could also offer the tests online or offer shorter exams.

The Pennsylvania State Education Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union, expressed disappointment over the news, hoping that the federal government would have instead issued a waiver for tests this year.

“As we wrote in a joint letter to our federal elected officials in January, we believe that if we truly want schools and educators to focus on learning recovery, we shouldn’t be administering standardized tests at all this year,” said President Rich Askey. “Our students have already lost too much classroom instructional time.”

In the letter, PDE opts against a blanket waiver, preferring instead to push the academic achievement and English language proficiency tests until September “to ensure that a larger, more representative sample of students can participate; reflect the differential effects of the pandemic … and provide PDE with the opportunity to continue collaborating with its Technical Advisory Committee and

assessment vendors to ensure that assessment results have the greatest possible utility as our education community engages in the hard work of long-term education recovery.”

Askey said that despite the decision, he “welcomes” the department’s plan to give districts time and flexibility to “address the logistics of annual standardized testing during the pandemic.”

“For the remainder of the 2020-21 school year, educators and students will be able to spend more time focused on teaching and learning, rather than losing vital classroom days to testing this spring,” he said.

“This important flexibility will ultimately require strategies at the local level to complete testing this summer or fall. It is our hope that this approach could offer safer conditions for the administration of assessments.”

Christen Smith follows Pennsylvania’s General Assembly for The Center Square. She is an awardwinning reporter with more than a decade of experience covering state and national policy issues for niche publications and local newsrooms alike.

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Pennsylvania governor frames charter school reforms as better for taxpayers

By Christen Smith The Center Square

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ennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday that cutting funding and increasing accountability for underperforming charter schools makes better use of taxpayer dollars than the current system.

“If we don’t fix the problems in our charter schools now, we are setting our children up for failure and that’s unacceptable,” Wolf said during a news conference. “We are also charging our taxpayers too much and that’s unacceptable.

Both of these are unacceptable.”

But school choice groups say the repackaged messaging doesn’t change the fact that districts don’t undergo the same level of scrutiny or face funding cuts for poor student performance.

Pennsylvania families across the Commonwealth are enjoying their lawful rights to enrolling their children in public charter schools,” said Lenny McAllister, CEO of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools. “The General Assembly created charter schools 24 years ago to be a public alternative to school districts for families who couldn’t afford the educational choices available to those with the resources to pay for it.

The governor wants to slash funding and limit these options for our state’s neediest families to benefit his political allies.”

The governor joined Sen. Lindsey Williams, D-Pittsburgh, Rep. Joe Ciresi, D-Royersford, and educational leaders

from across the state to stump for a forthcoming bill that standardizes charter school tuition rates and adds accountability provisions to give local districts a clearer view of how the funding gets spent.

“We have some great charter schools out there,” Ciresi said.

“This isn’t about that.

This is about giving local control back. … This bill makes sure every student has everything they need and taxpayers are protected.”

Under current law, school districts pay a per-student tuition rate for each child that attends a charter school.

In 2020, that amount totaled $2.1 billion and will increase by $400 million this year alone.

“The way the law is set up, we can’t guarantee that every charter school is giving every student the opportunity they need to get,” Wolf said. “The problem is more important right now than ever.”

Critics say that charters get overpaid because they lack some of the fixed costs of maintaining physical locations. School board leaders also argue that charter school boards escape public oversight while taking taxpayer dollars because their members are appointed, not elected. This leaves critical gaps in oversight that allow problematic schools to stay operational.

“These problems are impacting students and taxpayers, and they boil down to funding, accountability and oversight,” State College Area School District Superintendent Robert O’Donnell said.

“Not one charter school in our region has a career and technical cen-

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ter for their students but are funded as if they do. … They don’t have the same building and grounds costs as traditional schools, and yet they receive funding as if they do.”

The Commonwealth Foundation, a free-market focused advocacy organization, said because tuition rates subtract certain costs upfront – including transportation, facilities and debt services – charter schools receive about 27% less per student than the district does.

Michael Torres, a foundation spokesperson, said although the charter school law needs updating, he’s critical of the “hyperbolic situation” presented by the

governor.

The governor also wants to change the way special education funding flows to charters. Current law assumes that 16% of charter students receive special education services, a notion that is “outdated” and skews the tuition rate districts must pay.

Instead, Wolf proposes limiting cyber tuition to a flat per student rate of $9,500 and funneling all special education dollars through an updated formula – a provision not applied to traditional districts.

Ciresi estimates that the funding changes would save the Philadelphia School District – where half of the

state’s 170,000 charter students live – up to $64 million each year.

In Pittsburgh, the district would recoup $11 million. Erie and Allentown would see tuition savings of $2.5 million and $3 million each, while the Coatesville Area School District would net $14 million.

But charter school groups said the proposal will gut $229 million from their schools, including a $99 million cut to special education funding alone.

“I would like to stress how devastating any funding cuts would be for our children, especially in Philadelphia where the governor’s plan would slash special education funding

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Bipartisan cannabis legalization bill emerges in Pennsylvania Senate

By Christen Smith The Center Square

bipartisan duo of senators introduced a measure Wednesday to legalize adult use cannabis in Pennsylvania.

It’s the first time a Republican member of the chamber has cosponsored the proposal – typically endorsed solely

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Gov. John Fetterman.

“That’s kind of the elephant in the room, if you will,” said Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie. “I believe in solving problems, and adult use cannabis is no more harmful than liquor. I’m not afraid to run a bill that doesn’t fit our party’s stereotype.”

In addition to regulating and taxing the drug for public consumption, Laughlin and co-sponsor

Pennsylvania state Sens. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie, and Sharif Street, D-Philadelphia, unveil their joint measure to legalize adult use cannabis in Pennsylvania at a news conference in Harrisburg on Feb. 24, 2021.

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Sen. Sharif Street, DPhiladelphia, said their proposal includes a provision that would erase

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“They either improve or they get worse. Philadelphia needs to put itself in a position to change for the better. Although we have a great historical past that we should respect, it’s important for us to realize this and embrace our future. Cities don’t stay the same.

When you choose to live in an urban environment, you choose a dynamic area that is always evolving.”

Immediately after the tower’s proposal, a small but formidable opposition group was ACC’s biggest problem. These were mainly older Center City residents who wanted the height of the tower reduced significantly. Opponents feared a taller tower would block views of the city from their JFK Boulevard high rise windows or cast so called “unsightly shadows.” These groups of neighbors also suggested that the building’s height was out of scale with the neighborhood, despite the fact that the proposed project was not

specifically in the Fairmount neighborhood but smack in the middle of Philadelphia’s financial district.

Of course, Philadelphia has always had a fear of record-breaking skyscrapers. When the City Hall Tower Billy Penn height limit was broken in 1986, it was the result of highly emotional debates about the ‘character’ of the city. City Planner Ed Bacon was dead set against any building going past the traditional Billy Penn’s hat height limit. Yet once the height limit taboo was broken, and as skyscraper plans began to be realized, the buildings built were largely conservative, ‘dwarf’ skyscrapers that in no way compared to New York City’s towering monoliths.

Philadelphia was still being careful—and conservative.

Nothing, it might be said, is out of scale when it comes to money.

When I asked Mr. Miller at the time why there was a work stoppage on implementing the American Commerce Center, he

could only tell me, “Who knows what’s going on with the economy and with the American Commerce Center.

When will the economy come around? When will the world get better?

Who knows…!”

Many thoughts that the economy at the time killed the ACC. But one city’s skyscraper requiem is another city’s hallelujah chorus. Several years ago, in New York City, Anthony Malkin, CEO of Empire State Realty Trust which owns the Empire State Building, asked New York City officials to block the construction of a 1,216-foot skyscraper at 33rd and 7th Avenue, less than ¼ of a mile from the Empire State Building.

Malkin wanted Vornado Realty Trust, creators of the new project, to scale the building back to 825 feet and put a 17-block buffer around the Empire State Building to protect its viewing province. While Malkin never mentioned “shadows,” he didn’t want the iconic structure that many know as “King Kong’s perch” to be outdone by a competitor.

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Often overlooked for relief efforts, Mexican Small Business Owners to form association

By Nathaniel Lee Press/Review Correspondent

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exican American smallbusiness owners held a virtual meeting Friday to voice their concerns about the impact of Covid-19 on Mexican owned businesses and the lack of financial support given to this segment of the population.

“It has not only been since the pandemic that we have suffered. We have also suffered during the economic crisis in 2008,” said Dionicio

Jimenez owner of ElGuero food truck near Temple University.

“We recognize that small businesses are the ones that suffer the most and this pandemic has been no exception and

that’s one of the reasons that we are uniting to form this business association,” he said.

“It was also during the last administration that many of the businesses

But Vornado Realty Trust, unlike the city of Dubai, seems to have no worries about money.

They just wanted to build—and build.

Mayor Bloomberg, New York’s mayor at the time who could be the voice of ill-reason on many issues but on this he encapsulated sound logic when he said, “One guy owns a building.

He’d like to have it be the only tall building. I’m sorry, that’s not the real world. Nor should it be.”

Getting back to Philadelphia, every city resident is aware of the opposition when they wanted to build Liberty Place I and II. Detractors said those buildings were too big but few would say today that they are not a spectacular addition to the city.

Many Center City residents were supportive of the ACC project, including those who lived in two-story houses.

Retail re-merchandiser Andi Pesacov, who designed the (first) 6 floors of high-end retail space for ACC, said that when the architects presented six possible renditions of the proposed new skyscraper, both she and Mr. Miller pointed to the one in question and said, “That’s the one!”

ACC’s design was called a piece of art.

Ms. Pesacov’s retail design, which included a glass floor on street level so that one can look down into another part of the store below, was an idea she got from a club in Las Vegas. While this may have a honkytonk connotation, the design

was anything but.

The architects took Pesacov’s design, went over it with L&I, then flushed it out with technical details.

An impressive design characteristic of the ACC was the pedestrianfriendly street level design. The artful ‘ground scale’ design was also a feature which made the rising tower above look even more fantastic.

A City Planning Commission meeting is a grandstander’s paradise.

At the last ACC City Planning Commission meeting opponents voiced their opinion that Philadelphia doesn’t need the American Commerce Center because “Philadelphia isn’t that kind of city.”

But what does “that kind of city” mean?

What is means is this: Philadelphia should always be careful and conservative and avoid bold visionary projects because it is a humble town that’s not as good as New York.

Much like the debates over buildings exceeding the height of City Hall Tower in 1986, the debates around ACC were loud, passionate and sometimes vicious.

The odd intrusion of Senator Vince Fumo into the controversy only added to the confusion.

Mr. Fumo, a politician and not an architect, vowed to fight the construction of the American Commerce Center and even went on record as calling the building a “monstrosity.”

The opponents of ACC were persistent in their

insistence that Philadelphia needed to be aware of its limitations.

But this is like telling a young child to scratch dreams of going to medical school because his low elementary school grades don’t indicate that he’s capable of such high aspirations.

Philadelphia needs a world class building that would ordinarily be built in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles. When you curtail the wingspan of a skyscraper because it might create shadows or ruin somebody’s view, you’re thinking like someone who can’t find his or her way out of a very small mental space.

(One immediately thinks of the Cira Center, which was designed to be much taller than it is but unfounded fears about another 9/11 attack caused the building to be scaled down. The scaled down look did not escape the eye of critics who have criticized Cira as being “too squat, as if it had its head shaved off.”)

As Mr. Miller observed then, Philadelphia should celebrate its history but this doesn’t mean it has to be stuck in it.

In the end, the City Planning Commission gave its approval to rezone the area around 19th and Arch Street for the proposed American Commerce Center.

But once approved, the project died, although the reasons for the project’s death were never succinctly explained, or if they were, I never saw them.

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Science Fiction for March 2021

By Henry L Lazarus

the same technology that allows transfer of skills, cience Fiction and Jonathon’s wafer can Fantasy can take take over the wearer’s you to anywhere. body up to thirty days.

Great for imagining He is the decider agent yourself away from the called up in an emergenturmoil of present events cy. In the four centuries and cold. that Marc Miller’s fun tale covers, he wipes out an infected world, and helps plan an Imperial assassination. One of his ex-carriers suffered mental collapse, leaving Jonathon in control for twenty years. Apparently there is a game based on the tale, but that didn’t matter. This is a fascinating read and very enjoyable.

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Sylvain Neuvel proves that the space race was the result of alien interference in A History of What Comes Next (hard from Tor) which looks at how Sarah and her daughter Mi’a (the 100th in the line of Kibsi that stretch back to the iron age) first help rescue German rocket scientists for the Americans at the end of WWII. Then they go to Moscow to help Russia develop rockets. They are chased by men they call trackers, asocial killers who are hunting for a stolen machine. Their alien biology makes them stronger, smarter, and faster than humans and each child is an exact copy of their parent. Mi’a and Sarah’s story ends with Sputnic and a nasty encounter with the trackers that left me wanting more. Excellent.

Fans of Outlander and Netflix’s Barbarians will really love H. B. Ashman’s Echoes of Germania (paper from Timeless Papers) which sends a young woman from today back to a decade before the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.

Arminius, the future general of that war and Marius, a famous Roman General who are in the middle of a campaign against a German revolt when engineering student Amalia Weber is sent back in time by a witch. Amelia has been trained by her bronze medal winning father in Judo and somehow took Latin in high school well enough to keep her alive (and not raped) until she can prove herself with Judo and bridge-building ability. Ms. Ashman captures the grit and bloodiness of that period and ends this portion of Amelia’s tale with an exciting Chariot race. I During the second look forward to more of Galactic empire, buthe tale. reaucrat Jonathon Bland L. E. Modesitt, Jr. volunteered to be an has spread his fantasy Agent of the Imperium series about the world (trade from Baen). Using of Recluse over cen-

turies of its history.

Fairhaven eventually will be destroyed in The Order War (paper). At the time of Fairhaven Rising (hard from Tor) however it’s filled with the hopes of Chaos and Order mages working together, and it’s just a small, but growing town. Taelya, a chaos mage, is an undercaptain in the Royal Guards when Fairhaven is asked to provide troops in a war between two nation states. They’ve been fighting over a river, and politics has led one leader to demand help from his weaker neighbor.

The problem to these leaders is the dangerous potential of Fairhaven.

It may not have many troops, but it has too many mages for their comfort. Taelya and her friends soon find themself buried in political trickery that will take all their talents and magical abilities. This is a bit slow, but very enjoyable.

I love this series.

Angie Fox continues her fun tale of a MASH surgeon in the war between the Old and New gods. Things are quieter during the truce, and Petra Robichaud has been treating a pregnant Medusa Then Marc sneaks into her camp. Marc, a were-dragon, surgeon,

and Petra’s old flame had been drafted by the other side and reported dead before Petra was drafted. Now he wants Petra to sneak into the other side’s MASH to talk to the ghost of his research head. It turns out that the other side has developed a disease with a total death rate for non-immortals. In The Transylvania Twist (ebook from Moose Island Books) Petra starts working with Marc trying to find an anesthesia drug for gods and demigods. But that, and the seer’s predictions only make things worse. One more book to go in this fun romance, and I can’t wait.

A decade ago David Weber wrote a fun tale of alien invasion and Earth coming Out of the Dark (paper) with the help of vampires. Now with the help of Chris Kennedy he continues the tale Into the Light (hard from Tor). Some of the vampires take the Shongairi ships, which travel six times the speed of light, to the

Shongairi home world.

That’s a journey of forty years. Meanwhile humanity, with the help of the Galactic Hegemony database, first recovers from the destruction and nuclear winter. Then engineers discover that the Hegemony is very risk averse and hasn’t improved their technology for millennia. Fortunately there are a lot of improvements. Then a ship is sent to a world with 1920’s technology to get allies. Lots of fun, and I suspect that sequels are planned.

Subterranean Press has The Best of Elizabeth Hand and The Best of Walter Jon Williams, two excellent authors, in

hard cover. Baen has The best of Jerry Pournelle edited by John F. Carr in paper. They also have reprinted Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden universe tale, Accepting the Lance, and Will McCarthy’s tale of past memory Antediluvian both in paper.

Metaphorosis best of 2020 is available as an ebook from Metaphorosis Publishing.

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were psychologically tortured and most affected and that’s why we need to continue working united because we’re also essential.”

Jiminez invited the community to join them in this “first initiative” as well as to patronize their local restaurants.

“After almost 20 years of experience in the industry, it is my pleasure to represent the Association of Mexican Small Business Owners in Philadelphia,” said Raul Castro, owner of two businesses in South Philadelphia.

“The goal of our campaign is to share our stories and cultural and economic contributions to our city and unify our voices in asking for support for our businesses during these difficult times,” he said.

“The pandemic has had a severe effect on all of our businesses and most of us have not received any financial relief nor support to help us stay in businesses.”

Castro said that the

formation of the Association would be the first of what he called “many” upcoming initiatives of the group.

The group looks to register the organization as an official nonprofit as well as work with other Americans to accomplish these goals.

To help the Mexican American owned businesses hard hit by the pandemic, a GoFundMe campaign has been launched and to date over $29,000 have been raised to help these businesses owners meet expenses.

“Even though our businesses have not been able to receive any financial assistance from federal, state or local sources, our priority has been to protect our clients from the virus.

Thus, we have strived to create spaces that respect social distancing and to find safe ways to bring our products to our client’s homes through takeout and delivery options. Even still, we have been devastated by the pandemic, and many of our businesses are at risk of bankruptcy.

Therefore, on behalf

of our businesses, staff, and families, we rely on the community to support this economic relief fund,” reads the GoFundMe page.

Castro said that efforts such as increasing outdoor patio and online presence will help but admits that such measures might not be enough to save all of the businesses in need of help.

Not only is the group organizing the new Association, but they have also launched a fundraising campaign to help Mexican American small business owners who are struggling to keep their businesses afloat.

“This is a campaign to not only raise funds, not only to support Mexican owned small businesses here in South Philadelphia, especially during these hard times, but also to raise awareness about the major contributions that these businesses have made to this city,” Castro said.

Efforts to form a business association are not new said Castro.

“We’ve been working for many years to have our own association but

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right now, due to the pandemic, it was like our little push to bring us together. Many of our merchants face many challenges that we were not expecting, even myself.”

“Unfortunately, the pandemic made us realize how vulnerable our businesses are in a situation like this.”

“We’ve been working for 3 or 4 months on the association. Right now, we are welcoming merchants who own businesses, restaurants, small stores, hair salons.

We are very excited because we are welcoming more,” said Hector Herrada, an organizer of the Association now being formed.

“All of us met and realized that we have the same problem… we were not able to qualify for any support from federal or local governments and they said ‘hey, we have a common problem. Let’s find ways that we can help each other and that’s the reason that [all the businesses] came together,” he said.

Asked why the Mexican American business community were often left out of government relief efforts for those afflicted by the Covid-19 Pandemic, Herrada said language barriers.

“Some of the reasons are the language disparity because much of the relief applications are written in English.

Also, some applications require background checks.”

The background checks would deter those who are not legal citizens here in the United States.

Although the new association isn’t yet official, they are already making headway. For instance, Herrada said that the dialogue between local businesses owners and residents have revealed common problems that they are now focusing on resolving together.

“For example, sanitation: Some of them have the same provider so they may get together with a provider as a group and get a better price and get better service so that will take care of a problem that all of us have at the same time,” said Herrada.

Those willing and

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by half for our students,” said Dr. Stacy Gill-Phillips, CEO of the West Philadelphia Achievement Charter Elementary School.

“Philadelphia public charter schools, which operate on an extremely tight budget, have been leading the effort in our city to get students back in the classroom and any cut in resources would derail this progress.”

PCPCS points out that 70% of charter students are nonwhite and 65% are economically disadvantaged. This makes the proposed cuts all the more troubling, said Dr. Dara Ware Allen, CEO of City Charter High School.

“Public charter schools serve a diverse population of students,” she said. “Many of them are some of Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable children who deserve our investment and support.”

Recognizing that high quality options exist in both charter schools and traditional districts “should be a bipartisan stance,” she said, something the governor’s proposal doesn’t do.

“We need all hands on deck helping student succeed in these unprecedented times and beyond,” she said.

While the governor’s support for charter school reform isn’t new, critics of the existing law said the pandemic has illuminated the cost of virtual education and, they say, cyber charters charge too much.

“It [costs] about $5,000 to educate and $13,000 to $25,000 is walking out the door,” said Donna Smith, a member of the Bellefonte Area School Board. “So it’s really a struggle for us.”

The issue compounded last spring and summer as enrollment at cyber charter schools soared amid the able to contribute to the Mexican business Associations relief effort are encouraged to visit South Philly Mexican

onset of the pandemic.

Dr. Rich Jensen, CEO of Agora Cyber Charter School, said the state’s 14 virtual institutions welcomed 25,000 new students last year alone.

He accused the governor of prioritizing district leaders over the demonstrated preference of thousands of students.

“The governor is not worried about what is best for Pennsylvania students, he is too busy listening to concerned school district leaders who are seeing their students seek options elsewhere,” he said.

Williams said the standardized tuition rate was calculated by taking the cost-per-student for the state’s top five performing charters and selecting the lowest rate among them. Still, some districts argued it was too high while some charter schools said it was far too low.

“Because of that, [we thought] maybe we are in the right spot in picking a number that was fair for everyone,” Williams said.

She also pointed to accountability and transparency provisions in the bill that received broad support from Republicans in the past as evidence of the proposal’s bipartisan nature.

“They [Republicans] are seeing the crunch in their home school districts, specifically in regards to the cyber charter tuition rate and the special education funding,” she said. “While they may not agree with everything in this bill, now more than ever there’s an appetite to get to a solution on this.”

Christen Smith follows Pennsylvania’s General Assembly for The Center Square. She is an awardwinning reporter with more than a decade of experience covering state and national policy issues for niche publications and local newsrooms alike.

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Alvin Singleton. Photo by Jo Eldredge Morrissey

he Philadelphia Chamber Music Society has an intriguing program on March 3 at 6 p.m., an all-Schubert event featuring Mark Steinberg, violin; Marcy Rosen,Cello; Jonathan Biss, piano.

A highlight is the masterpiece E Flat Major Trio D.929. On line only. boxoffice@pcmsconcerts.org or 215569-8080.  The Annenberg Center has two streaming programs in the days ahead. On March 4 at 7 p.m., cellist Thomas Kraines and cellist/oud player Kinan Abouafach offer a live performance of “a journey in sound” of original works, improvisations and the world premiere of a new work by Gene Coleman. Q & A follows the program. On March 11, HopeBoykinDance at 7 p.m. presents six dancers including Ms. Boykin, deemed a “force of nature on the stage”, a veteran of 20 years with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is on stage at the Fringe on March 5 at 8 p.m., part of their Get Pegged Cabaret: Keep on Pegging. Performers include classically-trained vocalist and drag queen Cookie Diorio and songcatcher and lyricist Samantha Rise. 140 N. Columbus Blvd. at Race St. 215413-1318 or FringeArts. com.  Curtis’s contempo-

rary music Ensemble 2021 opens its new free on demand online season on March 6 with student performers offering the music of Alvin Singleton and Julius Eastman with guest harpist Coline Marie Orliac, repeated on March 7 at 3 p.m.

Details at curtis/edu or 215-893-5252.  A “Splendid Black History Concert” is set for broadcast on Facebook, YouTube and at #MarianAndersonMusicGuild on March 6 at 1 p.m. featuring soprano Julie Ann Green , baritone JL Henry and four instrumentalists, a ticketed event made possible by funds from the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission. 1-800 9999045.  STREAMING FROM AFAR: Here’s a chance to catch of film from the 2021 Athena Film Festival, a collaboration between Women and Hollywood, an organization devoted to gender diversity in the film industry, and Barnard College’s Athena Center for Leadership, exploring female authority on film Ticketed. Anytime from now until March 31 at watch.athenafilmfestival.com.  On March 4, learn a recipe for cabbage and prepare your garden for Spring in a cooking and gardening class from the U.S. Botanic Garden. Free. 12 noon usbg.gov/cooking.  The Metropolitan

Curtis’s contemporary music group Ensemble 2021 opens its condensed online season on March 6 highlighted by Alvin Singleton’s residency and the Julian Eastman project. Curtis students, faculty and alumni rehearse for the event.

Opera archival broadcasts every Saturday at 1 pm. on our city’s WRTI, 90. 1 offers four classic operas in March and our two great local operatic training schools are featured. On March 6, Bizet’s “Carmen” stars Anita Rachvelishvili, ldar Abdrazakov with Academy of Vocal Arts’ bass Keith Miller; on March 13, Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” stars AVA’s Ailyn Perez as the Countess and AVA’s bass James Morris celebrating many decades on the opera stage; on March 20, Curtis’s tenor Juan Diego Florez takes the title role in Rossini’s “Le Comte Ory” with Pretty Yende and Nathan Gunn; and on March 27, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” stars AVA’s soprano Ellie Dean as Dona Elvira and James Morris as The Comendatore”.  The Met’s hugely popular nightly free streamings of HD’s from their vast archives of recent and golden oldies continues on March 3 with Wagner’s “Die Walkure”; 1989, Hildegarde Behrens, Jessye Norman and AVA’s James Morris; March 4, Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” with Golda Schulz and Rene Pape; March 5, Britten’s “Peter Grimes” Patricia Racette, Anthony

Dean Griffies; March 6, Dvorak’s “Rusalka”, Renee Fleming, Dolora Zajick, Piotr Beczala and Curtis’s bass John Relyea; March 7, Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino”, 1984, Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Ciacomini; March 8, Puccini’s

“Manon Lescaut”, 1980, Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo; March 9, Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” , Ava-Marie Westbroek, Marcello Alvarez, and Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” , Patricia Racette, Marcello Alvarez; March 10, Cilea’s “Adriana Lecou-

vreur”, Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczala. Each of these streams untll 6:30 p.m. the following day and are miracles of great castIng, costumes, decors and staging. metopera.org and 212362-6000. 

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Sin Eaters: It Must Have Been Something She Ate

by Richard Lord Contributing writer

E

arly on in Noel Coward’s 1930 comedy, Private Lives, the ultra-mondaine Amanda confides to her new husband Victor that she believes “ … very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there’s no knowing what one mightn’t do.”

Flash forward 90 years to our own time, as Sin Eaters playwright Anna Moench drops us into the home of Mary and Derrick, a quasi-contented couple toasting the fact that Mary has just landed a new job at a “tech company”. (Her job and its duties are so packed in non-disclosure, she’s not even allowed to tell Derrick exactly what she does.) It’s not just the new job that has the two celebrating: Mary’s new position may be a giant step towards getting out of what Derrick affectionately calls their “den of misery”. Said den is actually a Staten Island apartment where their upstairs neighbor is a repulsively loud, foulmouthed, obnoxious harridan, while their downstairs neighbor is a former marine plagued with PTSD who’s prone to skulking about the hallways with his handgun. Mary suggests that if only Derrick will take on some catering gigs – he hates catering, though he’s quite good at it – they’ll have enough of a regular income flow to get out of their “den of misery” and into new, less stressful digs.

We soon learn that Mary’s hush-hush tech job is with a social media company. The Internet, especially its social media province, hosts those very “thingummys” that Noel Coward and his Amanda could never imagine, but somehow understood that if and when those thingummys fused and the wrong spark was struck, there’s

Sin Eaters

all of its problems, a refuge from the world little that some users won’t get up to. The key she sees at her job. She difference between 1930 finds a kind of relief in knowing the world and 2021 is, of course, that the weirdest things is not “entirely full of monsters”, like those she they do does not stay encounters every day on hidden in their private her screen. But just as lives – they are eagerly many first-year medical shared all across the students start thinking public square of the Inthat they’re in the early ternet. stages of every nasty Mary’s employer, Between Us, is “an anony- disease they read about, mous social networking Mary starts thinking that the nasties she views on platform that enables peer-to-peer interactions her screen are people she sees on the New York in order to discover the subway, or on the streets. intimate, unseen and unknown world around And even at a much closer proximity. us.” However, for an Considering the terendless parade of its rain she’s exploring here, users, ‘intimate’ is a synplaywright Anna Moonym for unbridled, and ench missed an opporwhat was unseen will all tunity: Sin Eaters could too soon be on view for have been an extremely any who log in.

However, the platform powerful play, but what we have instead is simdoes have its code of ply an interesting drama standards, and Mary Lee’s duties as a Between that holds our interest all Us content moderator is the way through. In handling this volatile materito view all the flagged al, Moench demonstrates content posted on the site and delete any con- more competence than brilliance. The dialogue tent that violates the code. So, Mary sits at her is taut and realistic, but more strategically computer and watches blunt than sharp. The violation after violation language does not define stream by. Much of it the characters, it funcseems to be male visitions as a tool for getting tors to the site eager to the story told. And the share close-ups of their genitals. But some of the understated ending of the piece seems more violations are quite dislike a safe off-ramp turbing, even criminal. from the tense last scene Mary herself gets deeply disturbed on her than a boffo wrap-up to very first day. Steve, the what’s just transpired.

The Theater Exile protop advisor at Between duction of Sin Eaters is Us, later reminds Mary something of a mixed that the gatekeepers at bag.

The strongest eleBetween Us “eat the ment was the acting. weirdos’ sins so other As Mary Lee, Bi Jean people don’t have to”.

Ngo was a perfect fit But he neglects to add as the young woman that if we are indeed what we eat, then a “sin who doesn’t fit into the corporate culture she’s eater” soon becomes been swept into. With a stuffed repository of contemporary transgres- a face that exudes beleaguered innocence, sions.

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who remains fully sympathetic as she tries to fight through confusion, delusion and ethical dilemmas. When Mary carries on a one-way conversation with her colleague Gary (just a few feet away, but with headphones pulled on tightly), we can read in Ngo’s anxious face the clutch of isolation in her unsocially distanced workplace.

David M. Raine provided solid support for Ngo as Derrick (and perhaps a few other Derrickpervaded roles). Raine was unfailingly sympathetic and hit the right notes in every scene in which he appeared, though it was clear that his was a supporting role. (That’s down to the script, not Raine’s acting abilities.)

The visual element of the show, however, was not as commendable as the acting. To put it simply, Jen Cleary’s cinematography often missed the mark. Cleary seemed to be experimenting at points, and those experiments usually were not successful.

The cinematographer would occasionally try different camera angles that seemed to have no purpose other than trying something new.

Also, from time to time, the screen would suddenly turn blue, for no apparent reason other than to go blue. In short, too much of the cinematography served as distraction rather than value added to the performance.

Nonetheless, the script was engaging enough, the acting strong enough that Theatre Exile’s Sin Eaters is well worth a view as we slog on through the pandemic with a determination to keep Philadelphia theatre alive and kicking.

Sin Eaters is available as a Video On-Demand (VOD) option from now through Sunday March 7.

Tickets can be readily purchased on the Theatre Exile website. After purchasing the VOD ticket, you’ll be able to view the show at any time and your ticket will be valid for 48 hours from the time it is first viewed, regardless of when it was purchased.

Curio Theatre Company Announces Immersive Walk-Through Installation About the Life of Saint-Georges A Symphony for SaintGeorges, a multidisciplinary theatre experience, set to run March 19-April 18

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urio Theatre Company springs back after the pandemic closures with a massive installation celebrating the life and career of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the famed violinist, composer and fencer whose story has been buried by history. This multidisciplinary installation will feature five environments created by sculpture, music, projections, video and set design.

Curio artists have been working for months independently on this ambitious experiment to highlight the life of an artist who rose from slavery.

The piece involves no live actors. A Symphony for Saint-Georges runs Friday, March 19 through Sunday, April 18. In order to ensure patrons and staff remain completely safe during the show’s run, ticket times and dates vary and are available for individual households or pods with a maximum number of four people, at 50-minute intervals.

Only one group will amble through the installation at a time, so patrons must make a reservation. There can be no late entry and groups will be let in and out by a masked front-of-house greeter.

Audience members are required to wear masks at all times, as the health and safety of Curio’s staff and patrons is the first priority for the show. This is a PayWhat-You-Can performance with a suggested donation — for those able — of $20 for adults and $10 for students and children. Tickets are available online at www. curiotheatre.org or by phone at 215-921-8243.

Ebony Pullum. Photo provided by Curio Theatre.

All shows are performed at Curio’s home theatre at the Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 4740 Baltimore Avenue.

“Curio has created an engaging tour that moves you with music and entertains you with adventure,” Director Rich Bradford said of A Symphony. “That is the life of Saint George! Music, adventure and the fight against oppression can be seen, heard, and felt in this production.

With the voice of Saint Georges’ mother being the guide of this tour, you and your touring pod will be edutained — educated and entertained! — by the worlds of Saint Georges’ life.”

At the center of A Symphony for SaintGeorges is the life story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Born in Guadeloupe to an enslaved mother and a wealthy plantationowner father, Joseph Bologne was once described as “the most accomplished man in France.” As a champion fencer, esteemed violinist, father, and composer, Bologne is said to have inspired musicians like Mozart. However, even he was not immune to the realities of racism. His story has been buried by history.

Curio is excited to bring Joseph Bologne de Chevalier Saint-Georges back to life so we can tell his historic, inspiring, and under-told story.

Artists participating in this exciting

project include Curio Co-Artistic Directors Rich Bradford and Paul Kuhn. Bradford adapted Saint-Georges’ life into this fully-immersive experience after being approached by Kuhn and choreographer Adja Samandoulgou with the idea. Paul Kuhn is also designing the set and creating the worlds.

Visual Artist Jermaine Ollivierre is creating sculptures. Fight Choreographer Ian Rose is creating the fight choreography, which includes the fencing of Saint-Georges himself.

Adja Samandoulgou is the dancer and choreographer, as well as a translator working with fellow translator Arrie Stuart. Dwayne Alistair Thomas is the Videographer and Editor. Keyonna Butler and Aetna Gallagher are the Costume Designers. Karen Smith is the Percussionist and Composer. Damien Figueras is the Sound Designer.

Dalton Whiting is the Lighting Designer. Bless Rudsill and Colin Sass are the projectionists.

Lexa Grace is the stage manager.

Star violinist Randall Goosby, who has played symphonies all over the world, recorded famed Saint-Georges and Mozart pieces for the installation. Ebony Pullum voices Saint-Georges’ mother and acts as the installation’s guide. Ian Rose plays the fencing instructor. Wilma Theater Hot House member Lindsay Smiling plays Saint-Georges.

Rich Bradford. Photo provided by Curio Theatre.

About Curio Theatre Company: Curio Theatre Company’s mission is to serve audiences in West Philadelphia and beyond with high quality, affordable theatre performances; to develop artistic talent through ensemble, company -based training and rehearsal processes; and to further academic, social, and personal development through arts education. The artistic and the educational arms of the theatre company are

intertwined as we make our home in the diverse community of West Philadelphia.

The company’s Educational program was awarded the 2017 Victory Theatre Education Award at the Barrymore Awards Ceremony. It marked the company’s first Barrymore Award.

Curio Theatre Company is a 501(c)3 non-profit company based in West Philadelphia.

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Crime Blotter

Crime Incidents as reported by the Philadelphia Police Department via opendataphilly.org. Feedback and inquiries can be sent to Dorian@Pressreview. net. This crime report does not cover the entire boundaries of each police district. It reflects only incidents in or near our circulation areas.

The Following Crimes Occurred Between Friday, February 9th and Thursday, February 15th.

3rd DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 3rd District, please call 215-686-3030.

Reporting 3rd District crimes from Lombard St. to Mifflin St. and Delaware Ave. to Broad St.: Rape: 700 S 2nd St. Assault: 200 Greenwich St, 500 Lombard St, 500 Manton St, 1700 S 4th St, 900 S 5th St, S 13th St & Washington Av, 500 S Broad St, 800 S Christopher Columbus Blvd, 1300 S Juniper St, 1100 Sigel St, 400 South St, 700 Tasker St. Burglary: 1200 Annin St, 800 S 2nd St. Theft: 1200 Dickinson St, 800 E Moyamensing Av, E Moyamensing Av & Wharton St, 700 E Passyunk Av, 1200 Ellsworth St, 0 Mifflin St (2 Incidents), 100 Moore St, 300 Reed St, 700 S 4th St, 1400 S 6th St, 1000 S 8th St, 1400 S 8th St, 1700 S 8th St, 800 S 9th St, 1400 S 13th St, 1800 S 13th St, 1600 S Christopher Columbus Blvd, 1500 S Front St, 1700 S Front St, 900 S Swanson St, 400 South St, 1000 South St (4 Incidents), 600 Wharton St. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 1300 Carpenter St, 700 S 11th St, 1800 S Front St, 1000 South St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 1000 Fitzwater St, 400 Reed St, 600 S 2nd St (2 Incidents), 700 S 3rd St, 700 S 6th St, 500 S Front St. 6th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 6th District, please call 215-686-3060.

Reporting 6th District crimes from Spring Garden St. to Lombard St. and Front St. to Broad St.: Assault: 700 Arch St, 1000 Cherry St, 200 Chestnut St, 300 Market St, 800 Market St, 900 Market St, 600 N Front St, 800 Spruce St (2 Incidents).

Burglary: 300 N 13th St, 0 S 12th St, 700 Spring Garden St. Robbery: 0 Dock St, 1200 Filbert St, 900 Market St, 1200 Vine St. Theft: 1000 Arch St, 1100 Arch St, 1300 Arch St (2 Incidents), 200 Callowhill St, 300 Chestnut St, 1300 Chestnut St, 500 Cypress St, 1200 Filbert St, 1100 Locust St, 300 Market St (2 Incidents), 700 Market St, 1000 Market St (7 Incidents), 1200 Market St, 1300 Market St, 400 N 5th St (2 Incidents), 0 N Front St, 300 N Front St, 1200 Noble St, 1100 Race St (2 Incidents), 400 S 2nd St (5 Incidents), 0 S 8th St, 200 S 9th St, 100 S 11th St (2 Incidents), 200 S 11th St, 300 S 13th St, 800 Spring Garden St, 1200 Walnut St, 1200 Waverly Walk.

Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 1000 Arch St, 1300 Arch St, 300 Market St, N Front St & Noble St, 700 Race St, 200 S 13th St, 1300 Spruce St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 100 Arch St (2 Incidents), 300 Chestnut St, 800 Chestnut St, 200 Cuthbert St, 200 Market St, 800 Market St, 1000 Market St, 200 N 3rd St, 600 N Front St, 300 N Water St, 800 Pine St, 900 Pine St, 1000 Pine St, 0 S 2nd St, 1300 Spruce St, 200 Vine St, 400 Vine St, 700 Walnut St. 9th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 9th District, please call 215-686-3090.

Reporting 9th District crimes from Fairmount Ave. to Lombard St. and Broad St. to the Schuylkill River.: Rape: 0 Franklin Town Blvd.

Assault: 1700 Chestnut St, 1400 Fairmount Av, 600 N 24th St, 600 N Broad St, S 15th St & Market St (2 Incidents), S 21st St & Chestnut St, 200 S 25th St, 300 S Smedley St (2 Incidents), 1700 Sansom St. Burglary: 1600 Market St, 200 N 16th

St, 200 S 21st St. Robbery: 2300 Fairmount Av, 1500 Latimer St, 1500 Market St (3 Incidents), 100 S 15th St, S 15th St & Market St, 2000 Spring Garden St. Theft: 1700 Callowhill St, 1900 Callowhill St, 1500 Chestnut St, 1600 Chestnut St, 1700 Chestnut St, 1900 Chestnut St, 2400 Chestnut St, 1500 Fairmount Av, 2300 Fairmount Av, 2000 Hamilton St, 1600 John F Kennedy Blvd, 1900 John F Kennedy Blvd, 1600 Locust St, 1500 Market St, 1900 Market St, 2000 Market St, 1900 Moravian St, 2100 Mount Vernon St, 200 N 17th St, 400 N 18th St, 400 N 19th St, 500 N 22nd St, 400 N Broad St (2 Incidents), N Schuylkill River Trl & Water Works Dr, 2000 North St, 2000 Pennsylvania Av, 2100 Pennsylvania Av, 1900 Pine St (2 Incidents), S 15th St & Spruce St, 0 S 16th St (3 Incidents), 100 S 17th St, 100 S 19th St, 200 S 21st St, 100 S 22nd St, S 22nd St & Walnut St, 1500 Sansom St, 2300 Wallace St, 1500 Walnut St, 1800 Walnut St, 2100 Walnut St, 2200 Walnut St (3 Incidents).

Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 200 S Broad St, 1400 Wallace St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 1700 Chancellor St, 1500 Chestnut St, 2000 Chestnut St (2 Incidents), 2300 Fairmount Av, 1500 Green St, 1400 John F Kennedy Blvd, 1500 John F Kennedy Blvd, 1700 Locust St, 1600 Market St, 0 N 15th St, 400 N 21st St (2 Incidents), 500 N Broad St, 600 N Broad St, 100 S 18th St (2 Incidents), 200 S 18th St, 300 S Smedley St, 2500 Spring Garden St (5 Incidents), 1400 Walnut St. 12th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 12th District, please call 215-6861320. Reporting 12th District crimes within Southwest Philly bounded by Baltimore at 49th St. to Bartram Dr. at 60th St.: Assault: 5600 Angora Ter, 5200 Beaumont St, 5500 Belmar St, 5600 Belmar St, 5700 Broomall St, 5700 Chester Av, 5600 Florence Av, 5300 Greenway Av, 1200 Greylock St, 5200 Litchfield St, 1600 S Conestoga St, 1300 S Lindenwood St, 1900 S Salford St, 1100 S Wilton St, 5800 Trinity St, 5500 Upland St, 5900 Windsor St, 5000 Woodland Av. Burglary: 5500 Chester Av, 2400 S 54th St, 2000 S 59th St, 5100 Springfield Av. Robbery: 5800 Windsor St, 5300 Woodland Av. Theft: 5500 Florence Av, 5200 Greenway Av, 5600 Hoffman Av, 6000 Kingsessing Av, 5500 Malcolm St, 1500 S 52nd St, 1200 S 57th St, 1200 S Ruby St, 5000 Warrington Av, 5800 Woodland Av. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 2100 S 57th St, 1800 S Yewdall St, 5700 Wheeler St, 5700 Woodland Av. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 5700 Baltimore Av, Cobbs Creek Pkwy & Willows Av, 6000 Elmwood Av, 5500 Florence Av, 5600 Florence Av, 5500 Hadfield St, 5400 Regent St, 1100 S 52nd St, 2200 S 56th St, 1800 S 58th St, 2500 S 58th St, 1100 S Peach St, 1200 S Peach St, 1900 S Salford St, 5500 Windsor St, 5700 Woodland Av.

Robbery: 4000 Lancaster Av, 0 N 52nd St. Theft: 5100 Brown St, 0 Dearborn St, 3000 John F Kennedy Blvd, 3800 Lancaster Av, 0 N 39th St, 400 N 50th St, 700 N Holly St, 4400 W Girard Av, 400 Wiota St. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 3800 Cambridge St, 3900 Cambridge St, 3300 Fairmount Av, 4400 Fairmount Av, 4000 Market St, N 35th St & Baring St, N 41st St & Westminster Av, 800 N 48th St, 600 N 49th St, 100 N 51st St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 5000 Aspen St, 3800 Folsom St, 3900 Haverford Av, 4200 Haverford Av, 5100 Haverford Av, 4900 Hoopes St, 4000 Lancaster Av (2 Incidents), 4500 Lancaster Av (3 Incidents), 2900 Market St, 4000 Market St (2 Incidents), 600 N 39th St, 800 N 40th St (2 Incidents), 700 N 49th St, N 50th St & Reno St, 300 N 52nd St, N 52nd St & Westminster Av, 700 N Dekalb St (2 Incidents), 4300 Parrish St, 4900 Reno St, 5100 Westminster Av. 17th DISTRICT: To report a crime to the 17th District, please call 215-6863170. Reporting 17th District crimes from Lombard St. to Mifflin St. and Broad St. to the Schuylkill River.

Assault: 2200 Bainbridge St, 1300 S 21st St, 1400 S Broad St, 1300 S Hicks St, 1500 S Marston St, 2000 Titan St. Burglary: 2200 Kimball St, 1000 S Bouvier St (2 Incidents), 1000 S Cleveland St, 2600 Washington Av. Robbery: 1800 Federal St. Theft: 2500 Annin St, 1900 Carpenter St, 1500 Catharine St, 2100 Catharine St, 2400 Christian St, 1400 Fitzwater St, 2000 Oakford St, 1900 Pierce St, 1400 Point Breeze Av, 2900 Reed St, 700 S 16th St, 1500 S 20th St, 1100 S 23rd St, 1000 S Broad St (3 Incidents), S Broad St & South St, 1300 S Chadwick St, 700 S Rosewood St (4 Incidents), 2200 Saint Albans St, 1800 South St (2 Incidents), 1400 Washington Av (2 Incidents), 2400 Washington Av, 2600 Webster St. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 1500 Manton St, 2000 Mountain St, 1100 S 18th St, 600 S 24th St, 1500 S 26th St, S Broad St & Fitzwater St, 700 S Rosewood St, 1400 Warfield St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 1400 Catharine St, 2000 Christian St, 1700 Dickinson St, 1500 Fitzwater St, 3000 Mifflin St, 1700 Morris St, 1200 S 20th St, 1100 S 25th St (2 Incidents), 1400 S 27th St, 1400 S 31st St, 1500 S Capitol St, 1300 S Lambert St, 1700 S Taylor St, 3000 Tasker St. 18th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 18th District, please call 215-6863180. Reporting 18th District crimes from Market St. to Woodland Ave. and 30th St. to Cobbs Creek Pkwy.: Assault: 4000 Chester Av, 6200 Chestnut St (4 Incidents), 4700 Hazel Av, 5800 Osage Av, 0 S 43rd St, 1300 S 48th St, 400 S 50th St, S 53rd St & Webster St, 500 S 54th St (2 Incidents), 600 S 55th St, 600 S 56th St, 0 S 58th St, 6100 Sansom St, 6100 Spruce St, 6200 Walnut St, 5800 Walton Av.

16th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 16th District, please call 215-6863160. Reporting 16th District crimes from Girard Ave. to Market St. and from the Schuylkill River to 52nd St.:

Burglary: 200 S 42nd St, 700 S 59th St (3 Incidents), 200 S 60th St, 1100 S 60th St, 4400 Sansom St, 4300 Walnut St.

Assault: 4000 Brown St, 3800 Haverford Av, 0 N 39th St, N 40th St & Reno St, N 41st St & Baring St, 900 N 42nd St, 800 N 46th St, 100 N 48th St, 200 N 52nd St, 700 N Holly St, 4900 Parrish St, 4100 Pennsgrove St, 3800 Spring Garden St.

Theft: 4000 Baltimore Av, 6100 Carpenter St, 4800 Cedar Av, 3600 Chestnut St, 4700 Chestnut St, 4900 Chestnut St, 5500 Chestnut St, 5600 Chestnut St, 200 Cobbs Creek Pkwy, 5600 Market St, 4400 Pine St, 200 S 42nd St, S 43rd St & Spruce St, 0 S 45th St, 0 S 52nd St, 200 S 52nd St, S 56th St &

Robbery: 5600 Walnut St.

Chestnut St, S 59th St & Christian St, 200 S 61st St, 4900 Sansom St, 5100 Spruce St, 3400 Walnut St, 3600 Walnut St (2 Incidents), 3900 Walnut St, 4000 Walnut St (2 Incidents).

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Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 4700 Chestnut St, 4800 Ludlow St, 4200 Osage Av, 100 S 40th St, 200 S 49th St, 6100 Spruce St, 500 Woodland Ter. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 5300 Addison St, 5600 Carpenter St, 5800 Cedar Av, 5100 Chancellor St, 5500 Chestnut St, 6200 Chestnut St (2 Incidents), 6100 Ellsworth St, 100 Farragut St, 5400 Irving St, 5500 Ludlow St (2 Incidents), 4400 Market St (2 Incidents), 5400 Norfolk St, 5800 Pine St, 6000 Pine St, 5200 Rodman St, S 42nd St & Market St (2 Incidents), 200 S 45th St, 500 S 52nd St, S 53rd St & Sansom St, 500 S 54th St, 600 S 55th St, S 55th St & Pine St, 0 S 57th St, S 57th St & Cedar Av, 500 S 60th St, 600 S 60th St, S 61st St & Hazel Av, 5000 Spruce St, 5900 Walnut St. 19th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 19th District, please call 215-6863190. Reporting 19th District crimes from City Ave. to Market St. and 52nd St. to 77th St.: Rape: 0 N Ithan St (2 Incidents).

Assault: 1800 Ashurst Rd, 5900 Callowhill St, 7500 City Av, 7300 Drexel Rd, 5700 Dunlap St (2 Incidents), 5300 Haverford Av (3 Incidents), 7200 Haverford Av, 300 Horton St, 5500 Lansdowne Av, 5900 Lansdowne Av, 6400 Malvern Av, 6100 Master St, 0 N 54th St, 1500 N 54th St, 2400 N 54th St, 500 N 55th St, 1300 N 57th St (3 Incidents), 300 N 60th St, 100 N 61st St, 200 N 61st St, 300 N 62nd St, N 65th St & Lansdowne Av, 600 N 67th St, 100 N Allison St, 0 N Hirst St, 0 N Lindenwood St, 100 N Peach St, 6000 Nassau Rd, 5200 Overbrook Av, 5500 Spring St, 6000 W Girard Av, 5300 W Montgomery Av, 5900 W Oxford St, 6100 W Oxford St, 600 Wynnewood Rd. Burglary: 5800 Arch St, 6600 Malvern Av. Robbery: 5200 Lancaster Av. Theft: 5400 Diamond St, 6700 Haverford Av, 6100 Master St, 2300 N 52nd St, 1200 N 54th St, 0 N Frazier St, 2100 N Wanamaker St, 5400 Race St, 5700 Woodbine Av. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 5400 Haverford Av, 5600 Lebanon Av, 400 N 53rd St, 300 N 60th St, 800 N 63rd St, 1300 N Allison St, 5200 Parkside Av, 5500 Pearl St, 5400 Pennsgrove St, 5600 Race St (2 Incidents), 6300 Sherwood Rd, 5500 Spring St, 5400 Upland Way, 5700 Vine St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 5400 Arlington St, 1800 Farrington Rd, 1300 Kimberly Dr, 5200 Market St (2 Incidents), 5300 Market St, 5600 Market St, 5900 Market St (2 Incidents), 6000 Market St, 6200 Market St, 1100 Marlyn Rd, 0 N 52nd St (8 Incidents), 300 N 54th St, 1700 N 54th St, 1400 N 57th St, N 58th St & Master St, 400 N 59th St, 1300 N 59th St, 0 N 61st St, N 62nd St & Vine St, 1100 N 63rd St, N 65th St & Callowhill St, 1100 N 66th St, 1000 N 68th St, 1400 N 76th St, 1200 N Allison St, 200 N Cecil St, 0 N Lindenwood St, 1600 Pennington Rd, 7500 Sherwood Rd, 5400 Spring St, 5500 Spring St, 5400 Stewart St, 5300 W Girard Av, 5300 W Montgomery Av, 5400 W Thompson St. Crime Incidents as reported by the Philadelphia Police Department via opendataphilly.org. Feedback and inquiries can be sent to Dorian@Pressreview.net. This crime report does not cover the entire boundaries of each police district. It reflects only incidents in or near our circulation areas.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf addresses reporters about his budget priorities Jan. 28, 2021, in Harrisburg. Commonwealth Media Services

By Christen Smith The Center Square

ennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf rescinded some of his social distancing orders on Monday, including rules about out-ofstate travel and capacity limits for public events.

Citing a downward trend in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the administration said residents leaving the state no longer are required provide proof of a test negative upon return or quarantine for 14 days.

Indoor and outdoor event capacity limits have been raised to 15% and 20%, respectively.

The lifted orders do not change rules for restaurants, bars, alcohol sales, wearing masks or other social distancing mandates put into place over the last year.

“Pennsylvania is taking a measured approach to revising or lifting mitigation orders,” Wolf said. “The reason we are seeing cases drop can be attributed, in part, to

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people following the mitigation efforts we have in place. Mask-wearing, social distancing and hand hygiene are making a difference and need to continue even as we see more and more people fully vaccinated.”

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 fell to just below 1,900 over the weekend as the positivity rate for tests for the week ending Feb. 18 stood at 6.5% – less than half of the rate measured during the virus’s second peak in December.

“We need to balance protecting public health with leading the state to a robust economic recovery,” Wolf said. “We are lifting mitigation efforts only when we believe it is safe to do so.”

Christen Smith follows Pennsylvania’s General Assembly for The Center Square. She is an awardwinning reporter with more than a decade of experience covering state and national policy issues for niche publications and local newsrooms alike.

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The Association of Community Publishers (ACP) is a progressive non-profit dedicated to helping community publishers succeed and grow. We’re emerging from a pending merger between the country’s best-known community publishing advocacy groups: IFPA (Independent Free Papers of America) and AFCP (Association of Free Community Publications).

The collective associations have been the catalyst for industry prosperity for more than 50 years, and the pending merger will make ACP the largest organization advocating for community publishers in the United States with nearly 200 member publications. The selected candidate will be a self-starter able to creatively complete projects on time and within budget.

Applicants will work with an energetic board of directors who oversee and give guidance about successfully navigating the position, but the Executive Director will be the chief executive officer of the organization.

NOTE: This is a remote job since the association does not have a home office. The job can be handled from anywhere in the Continental United States. You will work from your home/office and may be reimbursed for typical office expenses.

Executive Director Job Responsibilities • Responsible for planning, organizing and directing the group’s operations and programs.

• Work with the Board of Directors to develop and implement goals to transform the new ACP organization and position it for future growth.

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• Provide leadership to and manage the efforts of staff to ensure appropriate support for all members.

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• Approve major systems implementations related to cost and membership recruitment.

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• Oversee and plan an in-person national conference annually, as well as set up and execute regular Zoom-type conferences throughout the year.

• Establish and meet, subject to board approval, annual new member solicitation goals, with possible salary bonus for successful completion of goals.

The executive director will be expected to work 40+ hours per week, with most work conducted on weekdays but some weekend/night work possible. Paid vacation and personal leave are available. Efforts are managed remotely as board members, publishing members and staff are located across the continent. Starting salary for the position is $75,000 annually for a qualified candidate.

Executive Director Qualifications / Skills • Demonstrated leadership and management skills • Ability to multi-task • Take initiative • Work independently • Creative problem-solving skills • Enthusiastic • Dynamic • Flexible • Organized • Collaborative • Existing social media/online skills Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or Management preferred • 10 or more years of management experience in an operational environment • 5 or more years management or supervisory experience If you enjoy a fast-paced, stimulating environment where your efforts are encouraged and rewarded, revel in working with remote teams, have out-of-the-box ideas on connecting with members, thrive in the spotlight, and can be the “face” of an organization, please send your resume and a cover letter — no later than March 10, 2021 — expressing your interest and qualifications to employment@communitypublishers.com

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