Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg
@danua
"Local know-it-all attorney"- Philly Inquirer. "Professional troll"- spouse. Civil rights attorney at the Public Interest Law Center. Sixers sufferer. He/him. Views mine only.
PHILLY (anywhere from 41 to 33% of Bluesky): Are you curious why the school district budget continues to be in crisis? Want to know how to avoid laying off reading teachers in the middle of a literacy crisis? Wednesday at 5pm, a smarter person than me will explain. RSVP here: luma.com/e7cgfzb8
What does it mean for a city to try to tax a tech monopoly? It means that a story about those efforts has seven different ads.
Meanwhile: Cherelle Parker is currently in front of Philadelphia City Council, making the most full-throated pro public education speeches I have heard a Philly mayor give, to try to win support for more local funding to stave off staff cuts in Philly.
Here in Philadelphia, Uber, your friendly neighborhood monopolist, is blanketing the city with ads to stop a rideshare tax that would prevent cuts to 340 School District of Philadelphia teachers, reading and math specialists, counselors, and more.
One of my favorite story types: when reporters credulously convey that an athlete lost an insane amount of weight from being sick for a few days. www.inquirer.com/phillies/jt-...
Billy V: “We are a discriminated against minority in Philadelphia called landlords.” Councilwoman Gauthier: “You’re a very scary man.”
Philly, if you want a little salve in these dark times, come to this small dollar fundraiser in South Philly for one of Philly’s Working Families Party council members. secure.actblue.com/donate/hive0...
The School District of Philadelphia is proposing a $2.8 billion school facilities plan to their school board, yet refuses to share with the public what that plan would actually mean for each school. www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
Dan McQuade came out of college twenty years ago with a Philadelphia-facing blog and started firing. web.archive.org/web/20060329...