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SEPTA Needs Money: Here’s How To Get Some
My latest for Next American City, on how to get more funding to the Delaware Valley’s struggling transit system: What is needed, quite simply, is more money. Unlike many other transit authorities,...
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How L.A. spearheaded (another) innovative transit funding initiative
When not biking or walking, I depend on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority to get me around the Philadelphia region. Beyond my immediate personal stake, I also prefer cities with less...
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Can Councilman Jim Kenney be brought around on earned sick leave?
I just attended a great Philadelphia Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) event about the state of food service work in the city. Held at Tequilas Restaurant downtown, the event featured speakers who...
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Wal-Mart, Fear, and Inequality in America
Cross-posted from Keystone Politics, where I’ll be guest-blogging while Jon is getting married. I have a piece up on Next American City today about the increasingly prevalence of low-wage work, the...
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Philadelphia’s Restaurant Industry Creates A Lot of [Bad] Jobs
Cross-posted from Keystone Politics, where I’ll be guest-blogging while Jon is getting married. Yesterday Next American City published my piece on the implications of low-income jobs, and...
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Coming Soon To This Space: Crazy Long Articles
Next week I’ve got a big piece coming out for Next American City, featuring struggling south Jersey cities, Rahm Emanuel’s brother, and what’s next for healthcare reform. And Philly of course. Get...
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Bookstores Now, Bookstores Forever
I’m a book addict and I vastly prefer obtaining my drug of choice at bricks and mortar establishments for all the usual reasons. I enjoy losing myself for an hour or two while idly browsing through the...
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Eds and Meds and the Future of Health Care Reform
Next American City just published a long piece I wrote on strategies to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs in poor urban areas–Trenton, New Jersey specifically–and why it will be so much...
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