Comments on: Great Expectations: Nutter and Taubenberger Potluck

By: philly » Blog Archive » Great Expectations: District 10 Agenda Meeting II

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:51:59 +0000

[...] Councilman Green swung the conversation to Brett Mandel's mission and pending lawsuit. Green thinks that Mandel will win his lawsuit as the city is legally bound to a full valuation of homes. The time period for council to act on the issue and protect those vulnerable will expire before the lawsuit is won. You can read up on Mandel's take on citywide reassessment. Councilman O'Neill disagreed that the lawsuit was a slam dunk. Previously, as candidate Nutter, now Mayor Nutter said that the current real estate structure was antiquated. His plan was for City Council to figure out how much money they needed from real estate taxes for the budget and then tax to meet that rate that year, that way a full 100% evaluation isn't necessarily needed. [...]

By: A Pot Luck with the Next Mayor « Kensingdelphia

A Pot Luck with the Next Mayor « Kensingdelphia — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:11:28 +0000

[...] Mrs. Stanton and Mr. Weidman live in a beautiful medium-size single family tudor that they purchased in March of this past year. The pot luck included a variety of excellent food including rellenos de carne and other choice empanada-like pasteries provided by attendees from Kensington, cole slaw with cabbage from a Philadelphia community garden by a resident from Fairmount, along with some out-of-this-world Lasagna from Mrs. Stanton. During the course of the evening, Al T. expressed his opinion that the food was better than the previous pot luck last Wednesday to the delight of all who attended. [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:31:06 +0000

I meant to comment earlier about what a great piece this is. Quite a report of what happened…and great photos (of course). But these are really crisp and clear…nice.