Re: [UC] hotel and office building on walnut

2010-12-10 Thread Anthony West
I don't know ... this DP 'graf reads like a pretty straight account to me, except where they got the year wrong. But who's counting? I was curious to see the intricate network of public-sector financing that underlies this project. Of course, the private sector doesn't lend money anymore, so I

Re: [UC] hotel and office building on walnut

2010-12-10 Thread Wilma de Soto
Well, it's a good thing that suburban commuters do not primarily use Walnut St. to get out of the city as they did when I was a kid. Still, Schuylkill Expressway construction and Blue Route expansion might force people to detour by Walnut or Spruce St. Also, the main street through UC might be t

RE: [UC] hotel and office building on walnut

2010-12-10 Thread Karen Allen
RE "The DP had yet another take... including this truly memorable paragraph: "In 2009, developers announced they planned to build the hotel at 40th and Pine streets. They changed locations after nearby residents expressed concerns that the building would harm the neighborhood’s identity. The pr

Re: [UC] hotel and office building on walnut

2010-12-10 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
On 12/10/2010 8:49 AM, krf...@aol.com wrote: The DP had yet another take... including this truly memorable paragraph: "In 2009, developers announced they planned to build the hotel at 40th and Pine streets. They changed locations after nearby residents expressed concerns that the

Re: [UC] hotel and office building on walnut

2010-12-10 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 12/9/2010 7:34:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, anthony_w...@earthlink.net writes: My newspaper gave this event front-page coverage, with a different take. http://www.phillyrecord.com/daily-2010/PDR-12-09-10.pdf --Tony West The DP had yet another take... including this trul

[UC] Important health reform data, INQ

2010-12-10 Thread Glenn moyer
Citizens, When the "sanctimonious" lies called health care reform were being spread by the corporate media and the Democrat/Republican party, we were to believe that "waste" and "fraud" were to be stripped from medicare and medicaid systems in order to pay for subsidized junk insurance. Please