Thanks Dave, I didn’t see it on my screen. It is indeed “vewy intewesting.”
What has been copied from other sources is a jumble of bullets and snips that
confuse rather than shine a light on Praxis methods or ideology. This is even
more problematic than bad web construction.
Very
One way to look at Penn Praxis involvement is this:
Conflict of interest: Penn would not be an impartial facilitator because it
has myriad relationships with the City government, including but not by any
means limited to the ongoing drama of the Campus Inn, playing out in front of
the
A nice phrase!
By the same metaphor, though, Nutter -- and every other mayor -- uses
proprietary software to fix public buildings, cut down public trees
and computerize public offices. They are called private-sector
contractors and they are utterly normal, completely familiar to our
Founding
That's partly why I suggested Loyola Univ. as one alternative to Penn.
Philadelphia is eagerly looking to superheroes from Chicago to fish our
budgetary fat out of the fire now, right? So if Obama, why not Loyola as
well? Meantime, Penn could peddle its expertise to Chicago governments
...
Anthony West wrote:
A nice phrase!
By the same metaphor, though, Nutter -- and every other mayor -- uses
proprietary software to fix public buildings, cut down public trees
and computerize public offices. They are called private-sector
contractors and they are utterly normal, completely
Anthony West wrote:
Will its public meetings accomplish anything in the end? That seems like
a more reasonable suspicion. Wharton has been flinging buckets of
high-financial brains into Wall Street for a generation, and look where
that's gotten us. On the other hand, nobody else knows what to
Baloney. Mayors all across the country use proprietary contractors such
as computer-network installers and planning facilitators and space
providers, to help their decision-making. That doesn't mean they are
paying them to do their decision-making (although that might also
happen, and might
Anthony West wrote:
Baloney. Mayors all across the country use proprietary contractors such
as computer-network installers and planning facilitators and space
providers, to help their decision-making. That doesn't mean they are
paying them to do their decision-making (although that might also
Ray,
In reaction to that other response your post received, I too am concerned with
Penn's involvement with the City's budget crisis, and with what they expect to
get out of the city in return for their involvement. Penn is not just some
benign entity who is unselfishly lending its expertise
It's reasonable to be skeptical about a Penn-based attempt to facilitate
a meeting over a conflict between some of its neighbors and itself.
That's not the situation before us in this case. The City budget gap
affects all Philadelphians, not just the 3% who live in University City.
The budget
“A Penn
entity makes just as much sense to the average Joe as anybody else's
entity, to organize large-scale, productive meetings.”
Tony, these people on the un-moderated list sure know how to fling it. You
were so ivy league to point to these deep core concepts published transparently
by
Pretty funny, Glenn!
Now can you direct us to your company website, please? How well-kept is
it? How self-revealing is it?
What I do when I want to learn something, and I don't get it over the
web, is I then call the person on the telephone and ask them questions,
if I care enough.
--
What I do when I want to learn something, and I don't get it over the
web, is I then call the person on the telephone and ask them questions,
if I care enough.
Neighbors,
I worked with some people from GSE when I was doing adult literacy work. I
thought highly of them. I couldn't
What? What are you talking about, Glenn? I can't make sense of any of this.
We're simply asking where the website for Glenn Moyer Real Estate, Inc.,
is, so we may compare its skill to that of the Project for Civic
Engagement's website. How can we best learn more about your business
activities
As Elmer Fudd used to say, Vewwy intewesting.
If you go to this page, you will find all the links that Glenn cites
below:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/node/416
If you then simply scroll down the page, instead of using the links,
you will then find the actual sections of text to which the links
Anthony West wrote:
What does it prove, that Nutter hired a Penn arm rather than a Temple
arm or a Loyola arm to grease a political adjustment? That Penn is the
largest private-sector employer in the city? That it is growing and
flourishing, and appears to be on top of its industry's game?
Anthony West wrote:
As for the Founding Fathers, they did care deeply about
accountability, transparency, debate and public participation,
although it would never have occurred to any of them to use any of
those precise words as they made their cases -- our language has
changed that much in
Attentive indeed. So let us begin by noting that Penn Praxis has *not*
been inserted into Nutter's budget process. The agent in this
situation is the University of Pennsylvania Project for Civic
Engagement. That there are relationships between the two entities is
significant. That there are
Anthony West wrote:
Attentive indeed. So let us begin by noting that Penn Praxis has *not*
been inserted into Nutter's budget process. The agent in this
situation is the University of Pennsylvania Project for Civic
Engagement. That there are relationships between the two entities is
What is significant to Penn-obsessed, Penn-dependent readers is that the
word Penn appears in a string related to Philadelphia's public life.
For the rest of us neighbors, whose daily life is largely separate from
Penn, we are terribly curious about what Penn is up to, because we are
not
Nutter has been hammered, and fairly so, for a Sinatra-esque management
style: I did it my way. In City Council he worked deftly with anybody
in sight to get things done; but the only teams he ever *joined* were
teams he headed. That obviously worked well enough to get things done in
Council,
Anthony West wrote:
I'm totally supportive of your rhetoric ... but baffled by your proposed
legislative and administrative solutions, Ray. What are they, in this
particular case? How do you think the articulation of principles, the
rule of law, the rights of man, the facing down of fascism
Joe Clarke wrote:
Are we not in a crisis? Cutting the libraries without consulting the
community (or the City Council) may have been hasty but where is the
money going to come from to cover the deficit? Is there any area of the
budget -- fire stations -- that somebody, including the city
I'm totally supportive of your rhetoric ... but baffled by your proposed
legislative and administrative solutions, Ray. What are they, in this
particular case? How do you think the articulation of principles, the
rule of law, the rights of man, the facing down of fascism and
communism, and the
Glenn moyer wrote:
If every leader/servant with whom you
have a problem is lumped in with Hitler, then the Hitler comparision is
rendered ineffective, a droning cliche. I fear it won't be long before
Obama joins Nutter and any other elected official in your Gallery of
Tyranny.
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