Big opportunity meets low ambition in run-up to Philly’s 250th anniversary celebrations | Editorial
A failure to capitalize on America's Semiquincentennial isn’t the only squandered opportunity for the city and its history.
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Estate sale scheduled at West Philly home once owned by Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant's grandparents
Several years ago, Sales By Helen managed the estate sale at the Chestnut Hill home once owned by former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. The company also managed an event at the former home of a ...
Philly’s 250th celebrations risk falling short without more funding and vision, planners say
Philadelphia has always gone big for America’s birthday. In 1876, to mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in our “greene countrie towne,” as William Penn called ...
Philadelphia owns more than 1,000 public artworks. Scores are missing.
Known for its outdoor art, Philadelphia has twice gutted its public arts office, and officials have not inventoried the ...
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Mayor Cherelle Parker didn’t want to talk taxes in her first year in office. That’s about to change.
That decades-long debate was put on hold last year by Mayor Cherelle L ... during the 1970s and ‘80s when mayors, especially Frank Rizzo, used it to pay off growing city personnel costs.
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Philadelphia owns more than 1,000 public artworks. Scores are missing.
Two years later, amid civil unrest following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Mayor Kenney preemptively moved the controversial Frank Rizzo statue into storage. (Neither ...