Someone reported off list they couldn't get to Mark Alan Hughes' column
about the Penn Alexander School by the link below. Beats me!
But google takes me to Hughes' website, mahughes.org/. His PAS column is
seventh on the list of "20 all-time favorites".
-- Tony West
In the course of his col
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 wat
Anthony West wrote:
In the course of his columnar duties, Hughes wrote a very interesting
column on ... that's right, the Penn Alexander School and real estate!
Check it out at _http://www.mahughes.org/showarticles.cfm?artid=207_.
Hah! That just about clinches it ... whatever "it" means.
--
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,
So in this case, Ray, the material you cite suggests PennPraxis was
contracted by Friends of 40th St. to create a planning document through
a series of open meetings. If so, PP's job was done after that. The
hotel proposal came many years later, so PP had no way to address it.
It's like the re
Anthony West wrote:
You can't complain you didn't get a pizza from Colonial
Pizza, if you neglected to order the pizza in the first place. It's not
Colonial's job to figure out when you want a pizza.
"no one asked for penn praxis in the first place, the public
didn't vote for it -- and ye
In a message dated 7/7/2008 11:05:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
you see, penn put the public school there for those who
could afford to pay the price of using it! it's not the penn
school's job to figure out when you want a public school!"
Living in the catch
Whether or not Penn employees can afford to live in the catchment area is
irrelevant. The bottom line is that no lower income people or the businesses
that cater to them will be moving there in the future. And over time, those who
are there now will eventually move out. The result: no more of
Not quite the case, I think. Society Hill is not rich with young
families and my sense is the families who live there, still tend to
patronize independent schools rather than the School District during
their K-8 years.
Academic communities are unique in that their highly-educated workforce
te
"no one asked for arthur ross gallery in the first place, the public
didn't vote for it -- and yet here it is, in our public art-presenting
process!"
"no one asked for penn to have an it department in the first place, the
public didn't vote for it --and yet here it is, polishing our global
in
Before Jackson-Cross sold its residential division to Fox & Roach, who sold to
Prudential, our fearless leader, DICK Jones, would give an annual state of the
market speech. A colleague and I would bet on the number of times the words
"thrust" and "penetrate" would be used to describe marketin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Before Jackson-Cross sold its residential division to Fox
& Roach, who sold to Prudential, our fearless leader, DICK
Jones, would give an annual state of the market speech. A
colleague and I would bet on the number of times the words
"thrust" and "penetrate" would be use
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