Philadelphia citizen has done some solid coverage for the mayoral race if you haven’t had the chance to check out their page.

He said he would announce a plan. I didn't find that answer convincing.

Except one of them answered how they’ll avoid conflict of interest and the other candidate dodged the question

I’m 100 percent in support of the striking TAs, but that is incorrect in regards to tuition in PhD grad programs. Tuition remission in PhD programs is a nearly universal “benefit” for all schools elite and non. However, Masters and professional doctoral programs like psyD do not generally have remission.

If you’re being interviewed by a former mayor when running for mayor, doesn’t seem like it would be beyond the pale to bring up that guy’s record

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I also canceled my subscription because of the shit quality articles they put out and blantent conflicts of interest.

I don't care about a politician's vibes, I care about what thier qualifications are, what thier vision for the city is, and how they will implement it.

Listen, they have to ensure the Poors can’t get their PHDs somehow! /s

Agreed on Nutter relishing his role as the tough interviewer after a bunch of softballs lazed up there by the other interviewers. It almost makes me wonder if they asked the other interviewers not to push the candidates on anything, but leave it to Nutter.

I mean, I haven't been back in Philly long enough to remember the Nutter administration, but from what I read, Gym has been a thorn in his side going back at least a decade. I don't get the impression that either of them needed to say anything to raise the hackles of the other. They seem to have real long-standing animosity. They didn't shake hands or interact at all on stage afterwards either (as far as I could see)

I don't think asking a candidate to defend a controversial vote or policy is a dick move at all. He did the exact same thing with Parker and the residency requirement. It was unfair not to allow her to give context to the audience. And the Union league quip seemed like much more of a low-blow, when it could have been asked in a thoughtful yet critical way.

I didn’t ask if you calculated my specific salary. I asked how you calculated $4/hour because that is an absurdly low amount to claim Temple Employee’s make.

Like all TAs, I am contractually obligated to work 20 hrs/week. That is how I calculated my hourly rate. I make over 10k/semester. There are 16 weeks/semester. I work 20 hours/week. Point is that there is literally no TA at Temple working for $4/hour.

no i didn't calculate your specific hourly rate. but how many hours do you spend teaching, grading, office hours, and answering emails?

because $19,000 or $21,000 per year is pretty low so maybe you only work like 7 hours per week?

Is it a schtick? I am not familiar enough with him to know.

I will say that the "Is she tough enough" question to Rhynhart was the single most offensive question asked of any of the candidates. No way that gets asked of a male candidate.

It was more than just the cost of renting. They wanted to build a football program to compete with other large football schools. You can’t have that without a stadium and surrounding activities. I don’t agree with it but it’s unfortunately the norm for college football.

Thanks for the response. I was/am genuinely interested in understanding the way the article read to you.

Do you mean to say "I wasn't saying that he was *NOT* aggressive?" in your first line?

I'll admit that it may be hard for me to read the article as painting a sinister picture because I read it only after watching the encounter in person. Being in the room, it was tense. Very much so. He did keep asking questions. The description matched what I felt while in the room, but at no time did it feel threatening or scary or anything out of place for the forum.

$4/hour? How did you calculate this? I am a TA and not even including tuition remission and benefits my per hourly rate is over $31 and I’m rounding down the calculations.

Obviously taxes are taken out but still…ya’ll really think we are out here working for $4/hr?!? Lol

Some of the misinformation that has been spread about TA wages is wild.

P.s. you could work more than 150 hours per week as a TA and still make more than $4/hour.

Edit: so the poster who spewed actual nonsense about TA pay is being upvoted but a literal Temple TA states facts about their salary and are downvoted. Clown world.

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They come in many different configurations.

I'll go with the latter for 1000, Alex

Lol, slip

This is self inflicted by the city.

No one is getting kicked out of their row house, people choosing to sell is a voluntary choice.

Rent is getting more expensive because the city uses restrictive zoning to block development, which restricts supply from meeting demand.

The city tax rate hasn't changed, real estate taxes go up because the housing and land got more valuable due to the city's nimby policies.

It seems like they went downhill drastically very recently. I was a paying subscriber to them for a long time and thought they were by far the best coverage of the city but just recently cancelled.

Is he there to “suck up headlines” or is he just pissed that the city that was in its best shape in history when he left in 2016 has reversed most of its progress?

For most graduate programs in the US? It's the latter. Anything outside of very few elite universities and very specific programs (civil engineering is one of the few exceptions to this truism), you'd still have to pay some tuition, if not all of it.

I suspect that at best, it hasn't gotten any worse (in terms of dramatic changes in quality of education) from 10 years ago for graduate students. And that's exactly the problem - it hasn't gotten any easier for them, either.

Thinking of the gutting of funding in US universities, along with bloating the admin budgets that we've seen in the past few decades, it has only gotten worse for grad student funding in the US. In my grad school experience, I know a handful of folks who took their chances at being an international grad student at a university overseas and having to pay full tuition as international students (le gasp!), which still worked out than less than however much they would have owed here, in the States. And their degrees are still just as good, if not better, than some of the US universities.

Really don't think this is a fair comparison. Hate Gym all you want, but please don't compare anyone to the monstrosity that is MTG.

The only benefit to pedestrians of a Parker administration would be that she will have her own driver.