Follow on twitter @rw_briggs Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco railed against the Inquirer for publishing the details of a leaked state report on alleged misspending and misconduct on the part of the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC), a group with extensive…

The embattled Ogontz Ave Revitalization Corp., whose alleged sins were enumerated in a state report that was leaked to the Inquirer yesterday, has reacted to these allegations in a way that can only be described as strange. While deftly avoiding…

Follow on twitter @rw_briggs Last week at City Council, as Councilman Kenyatta Johnson got some media attention for jumping into the fray over AVI, another resolution he had sponsored was passed virtually unnoticed. The legislation would enable the Second District…

Follow on twitter @rw_briggs Charles M Gibbs, Esq., the attorney who represented patronage employee and Blondell Reynolds Brown campaign manager John McDaniel — who admitted to stealing from a PAC he ran and from Brown’s campaign — has a history…

[ politics ] Recently, the public has learned of the special treatment — in the form of a patronage job paying $87,125 per year — afforded to John McDaniel, the politically connected former campaign manager for Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown,…

Follow on twitter @rw_briggs A pornstar named “Xotic Esmeralda” tweeted to a horny follower named “Avi” using “#avi,” unintentionally bombarding a twitter discussion of the Actual Value Initiative with giant boobs and bringing much needed levity to the subject.  This…

Follow on twitter @rw_briggs John McDaniel, the former city employee/political operative/fraudster, plead guilty yesterday for stealing $103,000 from a PAC he controlled, and then fudging disclosure forms to cover his tracks. Speculation is rampant that the former campaign manager for…

Neal Santos MAN CAVE: Contrary to lore, Johannes Kelpius likely did not live in this cave in the Wissahickon; he may or may not have meditated there. But a stone monument erected by Rosicrucian followers marks the spot. Neal Santos…

As residents in Philadelphia brace for the impact of a drastic restructuring of the city’s property tax assessment process, known as the Actual Value Initiative (AVI), Democratic state legislators held a conference yesterday at the Constitution Center to collect testimony…