By admin | February 23, 2009
My first installment of Metronomics, an urban economics column for Next American City:
The past few months have showered us with news about cities taking hatchets to their budgets and chopping away at services. In my own Philadelphia, the plan to shutter 11 libraries was notorious enough to be reported in the Economist magazine. Unfortunately, one [...]
By admin | February 18, 2009
If the judge had known that Rasheed Scrugs would kill a police officer five months after his arrest, maybe he would have jailed Scrugs after his third bench warrant, or decided that his lengthy rap sheet should prohibit bail altogether.
But all the judge saw (beyond Scrugs’ prior record) was a minor case of stolen property, [...]
By admin | February 2, 2009
It sounds like a concept hatched by stoned new agers, or maybe a drunken joke: the story of Enron, whose nefarious business strategies became the most meteoric rise-and-fall tale in corporate history, told through interpretive dance.
But if anyone in Philly was going to do it, it had to be the Rebecca Davis Dance Co., which [...]