[UC-Announce] PHRESH SELECT SURVIVES ANOTHER WEEK: PLEASE WATCH MTV TONIGHT A

2008-07-03 Thread Patty Bulack
Hello Everyone, Here is our latest update: our votes kept Phresh Select safe from elimination on Episode 2 of America's Next Best Dance Crew!! They did a great rendition of Chris Brown's Gimme That video, and the momentum created by their performance is carrying them forward. (You can view the

Re: [UC] Pennspiracy L I response time to torture requests

2008-07-03 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/2/2008 7:43:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe that Nutter and Rendell have drunk the Kool Aid, I just mean that they--Penn--are all over the place and should be subject to the same scrutiny by the media as say Geno's steaks.

Re: The real-estate Pennspiracy (Was: Re: [UC] [Fwd: Re: Torture And L I])

2008-07-03 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
Anthony West wrote: Pennspiracy theorists out there may enjoy what follows. When Philadelphia voters became passive consumers of notorious Wharton secret agent Michael Nutter, perhaps they didn't reckon on picking up all his fellow Pennspirators as well. In addition to PennPraxis, whose

[UC] between the Scylla and the Charybdis

2008-07-03 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/3/2008 10:08:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: roger that. consider penn praxis at the delaware river a high-profile dress rehearsal for penn's development of its holdings along the schuylkill river. and consider that penn praxis was

[UC] PHRESH SELECT SURVIVES ANOTHER WEEK: PLEASE WATCH MTV TONIGHT A

2008-07-03 Thread Patty Bulack
Hello Everyone, Here is our latest update: our votes kept Phresh Select safe from elimination on Episode 2 of America's Next Best Dance Crew!! They did a great rendition of Chris Brown's Gimme That video, and the momentum created by their performance is carrying them forward. (You can view the

Re: [UC] Re: Torture And L I]

2008-07-03 Thread Glenn
One property owner says he was issued over $10k worth of violations. Enough to close down some businesses and replace with gentrified ones. Sande, A few people contacted me and said, yes I know someone who has been hit like this. This L I problem of excessive violations seems to be

Re: [UC] Pennspiracy L I response time to torture requests

2008-07-03 Thread Glenn
a.. Anyone who's attended one (or more -- which helps to show the pattern) of the citizen-driven planning forums run by Penn Praxis knows they are pre-framed debates in which the conclusions are foregone and certainly known in advance by the folks running the show. This seems to be the only

[UC] Re: The real-estate Pennspiracy

2008-07-03 Thread Anthony West
In all fairness to PennPraxis, some party has to actually hire it, or otherwise contract with it to run a forum for it. It doesn't run around looking for controversies and organizing forums on its own whim. The contractor doesn't have to be Penn. In fact, it usually isn't, I believe. I did

Re: [UC] A million for Penn parks

2008-07-03 Thread Glenn
If you can't do that, then please apologize to the Mayor, to the Secretary of DCNR, to the list and to yourself for making the same type of ad hominem attack that you so wisely deplore. Andy, Sorry to disappoint you, but I have incredible passion about this transition to plutocracy!.

Re: The real-estate Pennspiracy (Was: Re: [UC] [Fwd: Re: Torture And L I])

2008-07-03 Thread Glenn
and consider that penn praxis was conspicuously absent from the media when it came to helping neighbors deal with penn's proposed hotel at 40th and pine, and when neighbors grappled with the penn-advised plans for the south street bridge. That's a good point! For several years we've been

Re: [UC] Re: The real-estate Pennspiracy

2008-07-03 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
Anthony West wrote: In all fairness to PennPraxis, some party has to actually hire it, or otherwise contract with it to run a forum for it. It doesn't run around looking for controversies and organizing forums on its own whim. The contractor doesn't have to be Penn. In fact, it usually isn't,

Re: [UC] Open letter to PennPraxis Re: The real-estate Pennspiracy

2008-07-03 Thread Glenn
So it may be PennPraxis wasn't involved in either of the neighbors' dealings you cite, because those neighbors did not ask it to become involved. I made a draft for a Penn Praxis letter. Any thoughts or additions? Tom and Tony, can you deliver the final draft to our friends at PennPraxis?