1. Promote the living daylights out of this study that shows Philadelphia is the fifth most walkable city in America. This was already one of the city's secret assets, but with gas at $4.08 a gallon, the whole world needs to know.
2. Bench Jimmy Rollins for the first game of the upcoming Mets series, for his ridiculous failure to run hard yesterday on a Victorino bloop on which he had a 50-50 chance of scoring, which would have snatched a victory from the jaws of defeat.
3. Make a deal to get those two idiotic slots parlors off of Delaware Avenue and then make the whole world relatively happy by combining them into one giant casino and entertainment zone at the South Philly sports complex, right where the Spectrum is being knocked down.
4. Don't make this stupid trade for Colorado's Matt Holiday and mortgage the next 4-5 years of baseball in Philly for what would probably be a soon-forgotten four-day one-and-done in the 2008 playoffs. Please develop what little young talent you have left.
5. Michael Nutter's 2008 has been a little like Jimmy Rollins' -- not a lot of errors, but little inspiring play, either. Here's an idea -- use your bully pulpit as mayor to get those 10,000 black men out in the street.
6. Cancel those insufferable Lehigh workouts and go straight to the NFL regular season.
7. Build this 1,500-foot skyscraper, (pictured at top, via Philly Skyline). even though the developers have no experience and probably no idea what they're doing. Like the walkable city study, a dramatic skyline tells the world that Philly is a happening place.
8. Stop shooting one another.
9. Build a 9,000-seat arena in Chester to house the soon-to-be homeless Phantoms and Kixx -- Delco is probably the market for those teams, anyway, and then Chester will have just about everything except for, of course, a supermarket.
10. Impeach George W. Bush while there's still time. Hey, that would make the world a better place, and Philly was part of the world last time I checked.
Where is Billy Penn in the skyline view?— Molly- Walkable city? Maybe in an "extreme sports" way, if you can dodge the drunk drivers, aggressive pan handlers, high school subway killers, and street thugs, I guess it is a walkable city, but I suggest running. Oh, But, give Nutter a break, and impeach Bush. What is TPS's new word.....lackey?— E Plebnista
- Maybe it's just me, but the proposed building looks like a 1500 foot flipping of the bird.— legatus
Will, you need to see someone about your George Bush problem. Your taking about Philadelphia, then all of a sudden you back on the GWB impeachment kick. Is there anything you do in life that doesn't involve a thought or comment about how much you hate George Bush? Settle down. You tend to get on my nerves, but I don't think about you 24/7.— jmc
Comment removed.- Don't let it bother you jmc. Will feels that he has to throw some raw meat in order to ensure that there will be a sufficient number of hits on his blog. It translates into $$$.— legatus
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- Good point Legatus, but look who flocks to that red meat (jmc, b.atk, steak with, etc.).— RG
- 11. Elect someone mayor who isn't from the decades old Democrat party machine. What's that old saying about insanity and expecting the same results? Will, I had no idea you wanted Cheney to assume the Presidency so bad that you want the current President impeached. I learn something new everyday.— Ramon
- Philadelphia is a fantastically walkable city - if you're not part of the marginalized minority cowering in their basements "fighting" the war on terror from the relative safety of their keyboards and desperately afraid that some brown person might knock on the door. It's amusing just how quickly the "manly men" of the "conservative" right turn into bleating sheep searching for a "leader." Oh, wait. No. "Amusing" isn't the right word. What is it? Oh, right. Pathetic.— E.Plebnista
- RG, it stands to reason that the right wingers would flock to the meat that was left specifically for them, don't you think?— legatus
- If Michael Nutter repeatedly violates or ignores the City Charter, if he clears the way for the police to torture inmates, and if he unlawfully spies on Philadelphians, then I will support his impeachment. You aren't seriously equating anything that Nutter has or hasn't done with Bush, the most unpopular president in modern American history, are you?— will
- What's pathetic is pansies like Plebnista who care so much about the "rights" of would be terrorists and who hinder the job of the people who have to try and find out if they are whom they think they are...— Domenic
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- What does President Bush have to do with this topic? Nothing. Just another dart thrown at the president. Love him or hate him, he won't be in the White House much longer. And if you are going to walk in Philly, take your Kevlar and Doberman with you.— dinohntr
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