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Uh huh, sure.

It doesn't seem all that complicated to me. It looks like this is an umbrella org that provides logistical/financial support for a lot of local leftist causes -- including some really excellent orgs -- that are too small to do/fund certain things themselves. I'm guessing that the Philly Community Bail Fund is probably the org that actually made the decision.

Sucks that you need a car in the transit desert that is fishtown. If only there was like a train, or a bus, or something?

Unfortunately, whatever the solution is to our societal woes, it will neither be immediate nor simple. We're talking multiple generations, comprehensive type of change, the scope of which is approaching impossibility. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but we're just so, so deep in.

That's fair! Kinda stuff you don't get swinging by for a pint

I've walked by NoChe countless times and never bat an eyelash, after this piece they'll be my next stop for a few cocktails.

The Swedish place looks interesting as well (no deer heart - no sale, though).

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KISS.

I am a short walk to some of these, is a win-win.

P.S. RIP Bards.

They’re waiting for next year so they can tell us food, statues and anyone who isn’t a democrat is racist.

I think they took down the contact page, I saw it earlier but appears to be gone now

I spit my coffee out when I read you were that surprised.

At my last job we did a custom brunch with a beer pairing with them and the owners were lazy jerks about everything and the beers that they wanted use to did not taste like anything that they described.

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>So it seems that you are attributing all the positives in cities during 2008-2014 to ex-President Obama then.

Not really, no. I think there are some large-scale social phenomena that are just tough to explain. Going back to crime data (which, as I mentioned earlier, is what I know more about, so this is what I feel more comfortable dealing with -- and I also think crime/safety has a lot of knock-on effects that result in things like business development and cities "getting better" etc), there was somewhat of a global downward trend in homicides from 1990-2015 that no one has a particularly good explanation for either. Less pronounced than in the U.S., but still very noticeable and definitely statistically significant.

Anyway, I'll stop here, because I feel like you think I'm trying to fight with you. I'm really not. You might be right, for all I know -- maybe Nutter really was better than Street. IMO he was probably better than Kenney even under my stricter criteria, because most recently under Kenney Philly has actually been defying the national violent crime trends (and very much in the wrong direction). Ultimately I am trying encourage people to probe a bit more into the question of what indicates a "good mayor" and why. I appreciate you for engaging.

Four Humours is great but it opened in 2020, you’d think there’d be more “new” bars to choose from, like two robbers would make more sense for that area

Rec and Royal is a joke.

Unless you're a juvenile who can't get mandatory life in prison if convicted. It's not about the charges, it's about the possible punishment. It's just that the only charges that carry mandatory life are 1) 1st degree murder, 2) 2nd degree murder, or 3) 2+ counts of 3rd degree murder, and only for those over 18 years old.

Juveniles can't be sentenced to mando life. They can get life, but it can't be mandatory.

Then the ATF should stop wasting time and resources on regulating pistol braces and actually focus on real issues.

We also need civil penalties for people who improperly store firearms in their glove box since that’s the single biggest avenue weapons take to the illegal market. Insane that I had more liability as a bartender than these jackoffs have with weapon-related negligence.

Motherfucker either keep that shit strapped to your body or leave it at home.

E: source https://everytownresearch.org/gun-thefts-from-cars-the-largest-source-of-stolen-guns/

I said it in another comment, but it's the fact that they're juveniles. Juveniles can't get sentenced to a mandatory life sentence. Since the sentence isn't mandatory, they're entitled to bail under PA laws. Bail is only prohibited in cases where mando life is the punishment.

Bail is required in all cases where the maximum punishment isn't mandatory life without parole.

So, if you're charged with 1st or 2nd degree murder, where the mandatory sentence if convicted is life without parole, you don't get bail.

If you're charged with 3rd degree murder, max 20, or if you're a juvenile, no mandatory life sentence - though you can get life, you are entitled to bail. What that bail is, and whether you can post it, however, are different questions.

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Damn, they're just blowing up all the spots around Passyunk huh