Mayor Nutter sends City Council legislation to raise property taxes and/or tax sugar-sweetened beverages in an attempt to raise money to close the Philadelphia School District budget gap. Nutter favors the beverage tax.
While Nutter may save the day for the school district, he leaves himself wide open for short-term and long-term political attacks.
Howard Gensler, the man you know as Tattle in the Daily News, tries to talk the city through the process of tightening a belt. Here are seven suggested steps to accomplish that.
And while much of the focus yesterday was on school financing, there was some movement on two controversial Council bills involving the homeless and mandatory paid sick leave.