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PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for the City of Philadelphia and Mayor Jim Kenney are seeking to dismiss a discrimination complaint from Philadelphia City Council member Mark Squilla and local Italian-American groups over Kenney’s removal of Columbus Day as an observed city holiday, arguing it lacks any factual basis.
The Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc. of Yonkers, N.Y., plus Squilla, the 1492 Society and Jody Della Barba, all of Philadelphia, first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on April 6 versus the City and Kenney.
The suit assailed the City and Kenney as having engaged in “continued, unrelenting, and intentionally discriminatory acts” against Italian-Americans – punctuated by Kenney’s Executive Order 2-21, which replaced Columbus Day as an official City holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day.
A partisan dispute in Bristol has called into question whether municipal voters have the authority to adopt term limits for city officials, and so far there’s no clear path to an answer short of a lawsuit.
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This article was first published on April 18, 2019. Congestion pricing is in the news again this week as the Council considers revisions to the Comprehensive Plan, including a section fleshing out the idea of congestion pricing. So, we wanted to share this piece explaining exactly what congestion pricing is with you again.
New York City is on track to be the first city in the country to implement decongestion pricing. This raises the prospect that other areas, such as the Washington region, might follow in New York’s footsteps.
If you’re wondering what exactly decongestion pricing is and what it might look like in our region, here’s a primer.
Call Republican opposition to D.C. statehood what it is: Racist
The GOPâs arguments against D.C. statehood hinge on a paternalistic and colonial idea that Black people cannot be trusted to govern themselves.
By Abdallah Fayyad Globe Staff,Updated May 3, 2021, 12:51 p.m.
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For two years in a row, and for only the second time in history, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state. And though the bill is effectively dead on arrival â the Senate filibuster would require at least 10 Republican senators to join Democrats in sending the bill to a floor vote â the fight for D.C. statehood has never been stronger.