Your easiest and cheapest solution may be FedEx Kinkos.

Yea that’s basically $10 an hour. The Wawa near me advertises $15 an hour.

Perfect!

I mean, Alan Domb's entire campaign seems to be a conflict of interest and Nutter let him off way easier than Gym.

Something like this?

I mean, all of the interviews including that one are available online. Ignorance isn't really an excuse here.

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I was there. He asked one remotely tough question of Rhynhart, which was more sexist than anything else, about what she would say to people who think she isn't tough enough. I thought it was offensive and sexist, but she reacted like she expected it, to the point that my friend suggested that they had agreed on it ahead of time. The rest was all softballs.

He was clearly more aggressive with Domb, trying to reign him in and cut him off. Then last night was next level as he really got under Parker's skin, digging into the residency requirement stuff, and then everything that happened with Gym.

they've been fucking around, now they're finding out.

you pay your teaching staff $4 an hour, it is only a matter of time before they can't afford to teach any more.

Damn Nutter looks like shit now

It's a thought that's crossed my mind more than once, as of late. Sigh.

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Cancel your Inquirer subscription (I did) and stop sending them money every month for their garbage "journalism."

Edit: some of this was in response to that absurd article from a commie newspaper that was posted and removed

The TUGSA represents the union. To "organize" outside that committee would require electing new representatives for the bargaining committee, which depends on the wording of their contract PLUS there's strict rules as per act 195 as to how that can be done-and when. The elected representatives are the exclusive representatives for collective bargaining purposes. Sometimes you have to offer a contract that you know is unpopular for a vote to move forward in the process.

What I don't know is if these employees are considered "public" employees, which under the terms of PERA/act 195 gives very strong protections for public employees. It also proscribes the process in which impasses are dealt with, starting with the bureau of mediation. Then comes a fact finding panel and another set of procedures. Then the unit can legally strike. But there's also options for voluntary arbitration.

I'm curious, because I'm not sure if they are act 195 employees, as temple has act 195 employees for sure, but none of the other units have had to go on strike as far as I know, and relations with other workers have not been nearly as contentious. It seems that temple has blown past all the steps(if they are act 195) and dug their heels in.

Obviously the workers want to get paid more, and they should.

I do think that higher ed in general, especially public schools like temple without huge endowments are headed for trouble in general. For a couple generations, "college" has been the goal pushed for everyone, but that hasn't been ideal. In my opinion, WAYYYY to many people went to college unnecessarily, and either got art degrees and were like what do now, or ended up loaded down with debt to make 65k at a nonprofit. Some of this is structural in our system, but people are waking up that the trades can give you 100k and zero debt, and the severe deficit of knowledge workers who know how to do critical things that no one pays much mind to is catching up to us. From pilots, to machinists, electricians to mechanics, plumbers, etc-all boomer heavy positions, and a lot of guys retired, plus it's hard to get young people in and stay on task. Much bigger conversation, but in sum I think college enrollments will decline, and more people will look to skilled trades and truck driving etc to get sufficient income.

It's like my mother in law complaining about their elevator being broken. Well, honey, elevator technicians are behind and there's not enough of them, and it's a VERY specific knowledge set, so you have to wait. Boomers.

I mean really, how many art history degreed individuals do we need?

Edit: basically I think temple can see these trends developing, which, plus their abysmal public safety record of late leads them to think, rightly, that enrollment will decline, squeezing the budget. So that's why they are taking a hard line. But it's costing them more imo to not bite the bullet, pay them and figure it out. Maybe not having 5373 vice provosts could help? I dunno.

Agree. Inquirer’s mayoral election coverage has been a joke.

Maybe because Rynhart isn’t incompetent talking head who just stirs controversy for PR? Gym has been totally useless, is a total fraud.

I didn't see it and can believe he was easy on her but I suspect it was just a boring conversation because she's an accountant focused on boring details.

While I think that's something we need in city hall, it unfortunately doesn't grab headlines which are needed to win elections.

How do you figure?

There are a couple of trees on Fairmount Ave that are in full bloom.

No surprise there. Nutter should run again.

Bluedge is a solid choice. Campus Copy in West Philly is great as well.

Right?! You want to be the face of a city?! Step up and be accountable to your actions and answer to your constituents.

Anyone who runs for office for the 'gram should be summarily casted out of the race.

I know, the crust is so amazing. It’s kinda in the Goldilocks zone between a pan pizza and a thin NYC style, so it’s the best of both worlds.

agreed, but this specific issue is the meme where the guy jams a stick into his own bike wheels

The pushback to describing it as "loop around" is that it implies it adds extra time to a pickup vs parking on the shoulder, and it doesn't. It adds an extra minute to stopping, but once in the lot there is little to no difference in pickup times. The "loop around" only matters if someone for some reason was driving nonstop through the lot to go to arrivals, which Uber and Lyft drivers do have to do in order to access the the commercial road from where they make pickups, but they don't have a choicr tomdo what they need to do. However, if you are coming early to pick someone up, there is virtually no difference between sitting in the lot vs sitting on the shoulder, except one is legal and had vending machines and the other is illegal and dangerous. One caveat is if parked on the bridge shoulder, which is even worse but thankfully most cars are not parked there. Other caveat is of there is traffic on the arrivals road from the lot.

Good for them. Increasing grad students' salaries from $19.5K to $21K is a joke, considering the work that they do for the Temple U. Some of the best teachers I had there were grad students, while their professors are fucking off doing whatever. Hell, even if grad students don't teach, they should be able to fucking live.

Just pay people properly, so they can afford things. It's not that deep!

Pete's Famous is great.