Philadelphia's new budget includes money to fight the epidemic of violence with $70 million in new funding. A portion going to groups with boots already on the ground already doing prevention work.
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On top of Philly news RIP Anna Verna, first and only woman president of Philadelphia City Council
The 90-year-old former lawmaker was remembered for her leadership and class.
Verna at a 2017 unveiling of the street sign for the block of Broad between Federal and Wharton as ‘Anna Cibotti Verna Way’ Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day.
When things got too rowdy in City Council’s chambers, Anna Verna would bang the gavel and calmly but firmly call for order.
“There is entirely too much noise in the chamber,” the lawmaker was known to say.
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Daniel Trubman, with 5th Square, said that he’d prefer to see money for tax cuts for parking lot corporations go to education, jobs, and cleaning up city streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia City Council once again postponed a committee vote on a proposal to slash taxes on parking lot revenues, as urbanist groups picketed outside the headquarters of Parkway Corporation, a prominent lot and garage operator that has backed the cuts.
The delay on the parking tax the third time council punted on the controversial bill in under a week also comes as council is floating an amendment that would alter Mayor Jim Kenney’s proposed wage and business tax reductions. The new plan would lessen the cost of those tax breaks by eliminating a proposal to cut rates for non-residents.
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