Yeah, I was thinking something to the scale of those planters there were put in at 15th and Market. Maybe if I just took some and left them no one would bother to move them ...

Insurance rates are up everywhere. Suburbs included.

It definitely is the case there’s a million videos on line of kids at drag shows even giving money to drag queens who are stripping

edit: I know y’all don’t like to hear it but just look into it for yourself please 👀

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So sad

I wonder if the ones run by home and school associations count. My Kids public school had a very small library a few years ago, now its a nice sized room with quite a few books, but parents volunteer to run it

That's disheartening, but not unexpected. It's just insane that someone can look at that intersection and not see that parking in or near that crosswalk is dangerous because it blocks people leaving the park from being visible to the drivers leaving the distant stop sign (the southbound one). That way, drivers can build up a good head of steam before kids and families try to walk out between the cars blocking the crosswalk. Even a couple planters to maintain distance would be incredibly helpful.

I am interested in hearing about this group, though. If numbers can help, I'll help any way I can.

It's not K&A that I'm only worried about. No. Not just that. I'm thinking about what happens to the people who own homes in the area if something like that comes to Port Richmond. Every single family that owns a home there will be basically trapped. They will be unable to sell their home and move because their homes will be worthless. Their QOL will vanish. They'll be subject to crime and the city won't care.

I love how every question in these threads is like "I want somewhere safe" or "I would prefer a low crime area"

Yep! It could be K&A.

I'm in a group trying to work on some changes to the Poplar Drive/Poplar Street intersection, and I can tell you this: You're probably out of luck right out of the gate. The Poplar/Poplar intersection is complicated because it's a park road and a regular city street, so changes to that one aren't easy (mixed budgets, etc.) — but the one thing we've learned for sure is Parks & Rec is tapped out as far as budgeting for any park roads.

It's not to say it's not worth it to try to get something moving on that front, but you're going to need to gather a fair amount of interest (petitions, potentially other steps). Constantly calling the cops on the crosswalk parkers might move the needle, too (or at least annoy the 9th enough that they lean on council/P&R to do something further).

No, PPA can't be summoned like that. PPA enforces things like meters and timed parking zones.

911 is for all police matters in Philly, including cars parked on the sidewalk.

Literally anywhere. Walk up Walnut Street and take your pick.

It’s a good question. If you work as a librarian at a public city library, you may qualify for public sector forgiveness, I don’t really know the answer. But continuous, persistent employment is one of the larger issues.

If it were up to me to fix, I would make library science a bachelors degree career and a track at more public 4-year universities. My hope is that more people would enter the field and want to serve the communities they came from in public and school libraries.

Libraries have the potential to hold a lot of power and help a lot of people, and are socialist institutions in their very nature. A library has so much more potential than just a repository for books you can borrow. This is what drew me to the field. I wish more people appreciated libraries and that collectively we invested more in them.

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This is hardly the last straw, but Im truly confused as to what this culture is elevating and what the priorities are.

>The point is that, on average, it costs more to educate children in Philadelphia, where a large percentage of the population is living in poverty and thus facing a number of externalities that complicate things, than a wealthy suburb.

Why does it cost more? Most of the expenses (teacher/admin salary, books, etc) should be largely the same no matter where they are paid for.

Trying to get to school early, so sad. So much lost youth in Philly.

If you mean Grays Ferry the neighborhood (south of Grays Ferry Ave and west of 25th), mostly safe, but not much to do either, and not great transit into Center City.

It wasn't installed properly, so it's been moved to a storage shed until they can get someone to reinstall it.

Don't lie to yourself to justify the ticket price.

Moving from 19146 to 19125 my 6-month Geico rate jumped from $570 to $820. 100/300/50 + comp/collision with $1000 deductible.

Why is it ridiculous? That’s not what the quote I picked out of the article is saying at all. The point is that, on average, it costs more to educate children in Philadelphia, where a large percentage of the population is living in poverty and thus facing a number of externalities that complicate things, than a wealthy suburb.