[UC] Thinking of appealing your real estate tax increase?

2007-08-25 Thread Krfapt
If you're a property owner in UC, more than likely you've just been hit with a 7.5% real estate assessment increase, which will translate into a 7.5% tax increase come 2008. There's an appeals process. If you're thinking of appealing, it would be a good idea to check out the following:

[UC] R-E tax assessment increases

2007-08-22 Thread Krfapt
Philadelphia Forward is urging everybody to file appeals of their real estate tax increases, using non-uniformity around the city as at least one basis for doing so. The point is that the whole system is out of whack and the arbitrary re-assessments this year serve to further rather than

Re: [UC] Gentrification Art

2007-08-21 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/20/2007 11:45:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was no input from FoCP, of which I was president at the time. UCD doesn't need community input. They know what's best for everyone. Like the latest... tearing down a wall so the riff-raff

Re: [UC] tawking the tawk, dot com

2007-08-21 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/21/2007 1:31:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Universities for the Civically Engaged Call it the new town/gown gestalt. Institutions are helping to establish bridges between campus and community. By James Martin and James E. Samels -- August

Re: [UC] Did anyone catch this from the Phila Bulletin on 7/27? - FreeMarketE...

2007-08-20 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/20/2007 12:00:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Penn, however, criticized the decision, saying in a statement Monday that administrators were surprised and profoundly disappointed by the verdict and will appeal. University spokeswoman Lori

[UC] Did anyone catch this from the Phila Bulletin on 7/27?

2007-08-19 Thread Krfapt
(I needed a good chuckle this morning... and got it from this article and totally absurd statements like: 1. prices, per bed, from $975 to $1,250, which is slightly higher than the estimated averages provided by the university's Off-Campus Living Office 2. '[The Radian] will be an

[UC] It ain't just west of 52nd Street

2007-08-16 Thread Krfapt
From this morning's Inquirer Sorry to be the bearer of scary tidings (and no, Craig, it isn't just because I'm over the hill). Al Krigman Young man shot in face, wounded in W. Phila. An 18-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded on a West

Re: [UC] When you add it all up, people just can't pay it, Blackwell said

2007-08-15 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/14/2007 9:31:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: which tax cuts that came into effect in 2006 or 2007 The tax cuts came into effect earlier than that. The effect has been building. And the budget surplus during Clinton's presidency was a

Re: [UC] When you add it all up, people just can't pay it, Blackwell said

2007-08-15 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/15/2007 9:31:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fill in the blank: The 8-year Clinton presidency had effect on the deficit/surplus. The 8-year Clinton presidency had, ultimately, a deleterious effect on the deficit/surplus. (And it

[UC] Does anyone know the signs on poles law in the 3rd District?

2007-08-15 Thread Krfapt
This important posting is for subscribers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com) only. Subscribers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) are requested to play by the honor system (or, at least, not risk being exposed to spewed filth or mean-spirited rants)

Re: [UC] When you add it all up, people just can't pay it, Blackwell said

2007-08-15 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/15/2007 6:00:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: his remarks seems like the ranting Since the formation of the sweetbarkingcheese.com list, we've been blessed by the absence of pejoratives such as ranting to describe measured discussions

[UC] A hearing on a needless historic designation hassle...

2007-08-14 Thread Krfapt
Hearing to decide fate of city mural By Joseph A. SlobodzianInquirer Staff Writer When artist Dee Chhin began painting her mural The Death of Venus in 2001 on the wall of a Victorian townhouse in Center City, she had no idea the title would be prophetic.Today, Chhin's patron goes before a

[UC] Let's see -- add 12% more for $80,000 outdoor concerts and the $74,000 flackette

2007-08-14 Thread Krfapt
Tax assessor mails notices By MARK McDONALD [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) 215-854-2646 The city's tax assessor yesterday began mailing 413,000 property-assessment notices that could increase the city's multibillion-dollar real-estate tax base by 8 percent. For

[UC] Channel 10 will do a story on the real estate tax reassessments

2007-08-14 Thread Krfapt
Word has it that Channel 10 news is doing a story this evening on the real estate tax reassessments reported earlier from the item in the Daily News. They interviewed Councilwoman Blackwell for the report. Always at your service ready for a dialog, Al Krigman

Re: [UC] When you add it all up, people just can't pay it, Blackwell said

2007-08-14 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/14/2007 6:01:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our city's government with inept strategic planning pushes the city towards further stratification: a privileged predominantly white upper-class inhabiting choice locations, and impoverished

Re: [UC] List of BID Supporters

2007-08-12 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/12/2007 11:48:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am livid. I just stumbled across this list - _http://www.ucbid.net/supporters.pdf_ (http://www.ucbid.net/supporters.pdf) – of BID supporters and found my name on it! I am outraged. I have never

Re: [UC] Letter to the UCReview by Andrew Goodman and response by the Editor

2007-08-09 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/8/2007 8:36:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/abcs-courses/academic-year-2006-2007.html The worst parts of this are: 1. the inculcation and reinforcement of perverse values of moral and intellectual superiority in

Re: [UC] Letter to the UCReview by Andrew Goodman and response by the Editor

2007-08-09 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/9/2007 1:00:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just because Penn as an institution fails to meet acceptable standards in real estate development, community planning or education projects, is it right to tar and feather their academic courses

Re: [UC] Letter to the UCReview by Andrew Goodman and response by the Editor

2007-08-09 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/9/2007 3:23:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are the people designing and running these courses and seminars intellectually honest enough to discuss the many failures of top-down planning and caution their students against believing that somehow

Re: [UC] Letter to the UCReview by Andrew Goodman and response by the Editor

2007-08-09 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/9/2007 6:28:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have a Letters to the Editor or Corrections/Additions section in your paper or website, I hope you include this as part of it. Wow! I missed this in print. If you have a Letters to the

Re: [UC] 46th Walnut police action

2007-08-08 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/7/2007 10:12:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lost cat. Frankus Sleek. Edgy. Infinitely flexible. In that case, doesn't this discussion belong on sweetbarkingcheese.com? Enquiring minds want to know? Al Krigman

[UC] Letter to the UCReview by Andrew Goodman and response by the Editor

2007-08-08 Thread Krfapt
Don't miss the letter by Andrew Goodman in today's University City Review, and the response by the Editor/Publisher, Bob Christian. Andrew's letter is stereotypical of the anointed vision so many of the Penn/UCD people have of what's best for everybody else, and Bob's response puts this

[UC] Did we miss National Night Out ??

2007-08-07 Thread Krfapt
With all this gratuitous bickering on what ought to be a forum for dissemination of information of interest to the community, did we miss a National Night Out block party on the 200 Block of S Melville Street yesterday evening? I just noticed in the news that yesterday was the scheduled

[UC] Melville St National Night Out -- it's tonite (Tuesday)

2007-08-07 Thread Krfapt
No, I wasn't getting that senile (cranky, maybe; senile, not yet). My confusion was that there was a kick-off National Night Out at the Walmart-Home Depot parking lot on Columbus Blvd last night. But the official annual local neighborhood version on Melville street is tonight. It's 6:00 to

Re: [UC] Car jacking confirmation

2007-08-06 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/6/2007 11:35:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure we have a police problem, and not a deranged list busybody with delusions of grandeur and a persecution complex problem? Mike: I notice that you're on the civil citizens' list at

Re: [UC] Car jacking confirmation

2007-08-06 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/6/2007 12:04:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be unwise to make assumptions about what I do or don't approve of based solely on what in which databases my name lies, especially since you admit you haven't done the extremely small

Re: [UC] Get a life, Glenn

2007-08-04 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/4/2007 12:30:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well said, like a real dorky boy scout. You win Glenn the good citizen merit badge and the UC wanker award for this week. This prize is awarded weekly and you're already in the running for next week's

Re: [UC] A Post from PhillyBlog

2007-08-04 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/4/2007 8:50:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the sons of West Philadelphia, _Kyle Cassidy_ (http://www.kylecassidy.com/) , has a new _book_ (http://www.amazon.com/Armed-America-Portraits-Owners-Their/dp/0896895432) Armed America: Portraits

Re: [UC] Carjacking at 44th Larchwood

2007-08-03 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/2/2007 8:27:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the other list: (Thanks, Noddy.) It's good to know the news. But cross-posting on the real discussion and civil citizens' lists doesn't make sense. Always at your service ready for a

Re: [UC] Carjacking at 44th Larchwood

2007-08-03 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/3/2007 8:17:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps something like this supercedes list protocol. I don’t know. What it really does is expose the wrong-headedness of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) If anyone is willing to

Re: [UC] Carjacking at 44th Larchwood

2007-08-03 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/3/2007 4:42:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but I did mean for it to be ironic. Al's suggestion that this is the rock 'em sock 'em list of community discourse, where we take off the kid gloves and slug it out over the issues is ridiculous.

Re: [UC] My Role with the List Serve

2007-08-02 Thread Krfapt
This important posting is for subscribers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com) only. Subscribers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) are requested to play by the honor system (or, at least, not risk being exposed to spewed filth or mean-spirited rants)

Re: [UC] My Role with the List Serve

2007-08-02 Thread Krfapt
This important posting is for subscribers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com) only. Subscribers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) are requested to play by the honor system (or, at least, not risk being exposed to spewed filth or mean-spirited rants) and

Re: [UC] RE: Listserve Reform of the UC list

2007-08-02 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 8/2/2007 9:44:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kyle, can I join your list? Dear FX: You must have missed it, but Kyle resigned from the UC list when he started up the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) list. So he may not be

Re: [UC] www.sweetbarkingcheese.com.

2007-08-01 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/31/2007 9:31:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: matters that we both take seriously Surely, you don't think I'm taking the new UC list seriously. Al K ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at

Re: [UC] What is it, and how does it work?

2007-08-01 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/31/2007 8:40:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You will find in-depth answers to your questions, which would otherwise clog the pipes around here, as it were. This important posting is for subscribers to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[UC] Owner of the former nursing home at 46th Chestnut may be in trouble

2007-07-31 Thread Krfapt
Remember the former nursing home at 46th Chestnut that had been proposed as a homeless shelter for women with small children? The one that ended up being leased by Penn Nursing for the LIFE (Living Independently for Elders) center? This listserv, with all its contentious bluntness, played

[UC] Has anyone of the male persuasion had a haircut at Jean Madelaine?

2007-07-31 Thread Krfapt
I know one person who did, and got a great cut -- with a shampoo and a little massage -- for $12. Their listed price is $16 -- but this may be for persons of the female persuasion. Anybody else try it? Enquiring minds want to know Al Krigman ** Get a

Re: [UC] Incorrigible list leaders

2007-07-31 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/31/2007 3:16:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Glenn wrote: Since you're still on the UC list, Brian, you must have received my request to substantiate the incivility you showed a few days back about Al Krigman's mean-spirited rants. So far,

[UC] Since the real reason for the new list is...

2007-07-30 Thread Krfapt
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:anointed@ sweetbarkingcheese.com) sneering committee met at the Red Light District outdoor cafe last night. of course, I wasn't invited, but the I had somebody up in a tree posing as a woodpecker and taking notes. The real reason for starting a new list, all

Re: [UC] Since the real reason for the new list is...

2007-07-30 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/30/2007 10:53:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But why all of the fear and derision of the new list? The market dictates demand, right? Fear... no. Derision... well, to my mind, it's childish. Like taking your ball and getting the other

Re: [UC] Since the real reason for the new list is...

2007-07-30 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/30/2007 12:13:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not as if Al wasn't flogging his own set of community forums a few years back. That, from a founder (and one of three members) of the SHNA? Astonishing! My memory's not that bad (yet) Al

[UC] www.sweetbarkingcheese.com.

2007-07-30 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/30/2007 12:29:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm afraid that spoof addresses have been posted more often than the actual one for Kyle's new list If you're trying to call www.sweetbarkingcheese.com a spoof address, you might ask Kyle (I

[UC] Has anyone seen the pledge you have to take...

2007-07-29 Thread Krfapt
Has anyone seen the pledge you have to take to have your registration approved for the new [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) listserv? Enquiring minds want to know. Al Krigman ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at

[UC] Re: Spoofed by a UC Listserv member who doesn't play fair with the facts [was...

2007-07-29 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/29/2007 11:40:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You've been had. The name of Kyle Cassidy's new listserv is NOT as Al Krigman wrote. Kyle's listserv is: _http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors_

Re: [UC] What nice people on the private list

2007-07-29 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/29/2007 11:31:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What Melani is doing here by insinuating that I might act in revenge in a criminal perhaps violent way is a terrible practise for her to engage in. Relax, Glenn. I'm going to lend you the bicycle helmet

Re: [UC] Listserve Reform of the UC list

2007-07-29 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/29/2007 1:33:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know people who are sick of ... Al Krigman's mean-spirited rants Would you care to cite one such mean-spritited rant. Just one will be enough to show you're not talking through your goofy hat.

[UC] Re: Spoofed by a UC Listserv member who doesn't play fair with the facts [was...

2007-07-29 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/29/2007 12:11:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the behavior of Al and others who spew filth I'd like to see an example of the filth you're accusing me of spewing ... on this forum or anywhere, for that matter. Enquirng minds want to know Al

Re: [UC] Listserve Reform of the UC list

2007-07-29 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/29/2007 4:01:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am starting to realize how much Penn real estate fears the discussion on this listserv Well, considering the role played by this listserv in the embarassment of UCD and the death of the NID, this is

[UC] Setting up your own listserv -- was True nature of UC-list

2007-07-29 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/29/2007 7:58:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see. How much is Kyle having to pay Penn to get them to host his server and lend him an IP address? Would I be able to do the same if I pay them to host a server for me and loan me an IP address? Who

Re: [UC] I've Created a New (Moderated) University City Mailing List

2007-07-28 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/28/2007 11:04:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm going to unsubscribe from univcity and hope to see some of you on the other side where I hope to be able to provide a less antagonistic atmosphere for neighborhood communication. In her

[UC] Penn's rather overpriced view of apartments... did someone here say Wharton ?

2007-07-28 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/28/2007 2:00:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On today's front page of the Inq., there is one of thos stories of a Penn real estate love in. You've read this crap many times, so I won't bore you with details. It was a newsmercial about Penn and

Re: [UC] Penn's rather overpriced view of apartments... did someone here say ...

2007-07-28 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/28/2007 9:16:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Inky seems to have printed the high end of the one bedroom range at Domus for effect and ended up distorting everything. (Quick! Someone hit the staff writer with a rolled-up Inky! Bad reporter! Bad!)

[UC] Obituary for Marianne Das in today's UCReview (from Al K)

2007-07-25 Thread Krfapt
Friend and neighbor, Marianne M. Das, departs Marianne M. Das, a longtime resident of Spruce Hill, passed away quietly in her daughter’s home on July 3, 2007. Though a native of Pittsburgh, PA, Marianne moved to South 43rd Street in her mid 20’s and remained committed to and active in

Re: [UC] Photos from the orchestra in the park

2007-07-23 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/23/2007 6:08:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the Philadelphia Orchestra should be ashamed The orchestra and its second-string (good enough for the bumpkins) conductor only got $80,000 to oom-pah in the specially-seeded Clark Park bowl. So

[UC] Memorial Service for Marianne Das

2007-07-20 Thread Krfapt
Marianne Das, a 50-year resident of University City, passed away earlier this month at age 77. She had been ailing for a few months, and was diagnosed in June with lung cancer that had metastasized elsewhere in her system. Marianne spend her last few weeks with her daughter, while

[UC] Awww... who needs it? We have Osage Gardens (or whatever Lussenhop calls it)

2007-07-20 Thread Krfapt
(javascript:swapBigImage('ext','1');) (javascript:swapBigImage('ext2','2');) (javascript:swapBigImage('int1','3');) (javascript:swapBigImage('int2','4');) Philadelphia Price: $1 million Bedrooms: 3 Baths: 2.5 Square feet: 2, 200 Description: This contemporary townhouse

Re: [UC] BIDs in the news

2007-07-19 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/19/2007 7:37:24 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fact is, John did cooperate in the beginning, I don't know what happened later, maybe an attorney told him to stop talking or due to some unreasonable pressure by UCD, but something transpired

[UC] Several stories on local crime in today's DP

2007-07-19 Thread Krfapt
_http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/_ (http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/) Today's DP has several stories on what appears to be a local assault-type crime spree by young kids in the area, mostly focusing on the streets close to Campus. Included are indications of how the University is trying

[UC] New security system at City Hall

2007-07-18 Thread Krfapt
If you're planning to go to City Hall for anything, be aware that the new security system is now up and running. All visitors must enter the building at the northeast corner and be issued a visitor’s pass before accessing any of the upper floors. You may leave the building at any exit.

[UC] Thank You, Paul Levy

2007-07-18 Thread Krfapt
Paul Levy of the Center City District -- CCD -- (of whom Wendell Lewis more truthfully than he imagined admitted he was not worthy) made a convincing point about the invalidity of UCD's scheme to label it's initiative a Business Improvement District (BID) and tax rental property owners

[UC] PECO goofs again (this time with their billing package)

2007-07-18 Thread Krfapt
The Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) warns that 300,000 customers received bills with a reply envelope that has the wrong address. PECO will use an automated telephone calling system to alert customers to write the address listed on the front and back of the bill, on their own

Re: [UC] human resources

2007-07-18 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/18/2007 11:31:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If they had an employee just to handle HR for a few employees, Al would be screaming bloody murder about the expense of another flackette. There you go again. The miracle of being able to read my

Re: [UC] 46th St Crime Alert

2007-07-18 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/18/2007 3:48:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rock em, sock em, Goo Braves! Beat their heads in, But in a Christian manner, Rip their guts out, In a nonviolent way. Reminds me of the Harvard Fight Song by Tom Lehrer: Fight fiercely,

Re: [UC] Re: Make a difference - Take Back the Tap!

2007-07-17 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/16/2007 10:24:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand why people buy bottled water, for convenience. Basically, you're paying for the bottle. But I can't see why it makes sense to buy water that comes from eight thousand miles away!

[UC] Free 5-gallon plastic buckets

2007-07-16 Thread Krfapt
We have a lot of 5-gallon plastic buckets (from joint compound, paint, etc). Home Depot sells these (in orange) for $4 or $5. There're useful for a lot of things -- carrying tools, recycling, etc. We'll put a bunch of them on the curb just south of 205 S 45th Street late this afternoon.

Re: [UC] John Fenton Postscript [Was: A UCD world record]

2007-07-16 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/16/2007 12:42:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everyone treats as gospel the spin that John Fenton was a loose cannon employee that was solely respnsible for wrongdoing. I beg to disagree with the word everyone. Many of us reserved

[UC] The way he should have handled it, were he not playing CYA so desperately

2007-07-15 Thread Krfapt
McCain accepts blame for missteps By Associated Press Saturday, July 14, 2007 CONCORD, N.H. - Republican John McCain said yesterday he was to blame for the weakened state of his presidential campaign that has undergone two major staff shake-ups in a week and is nearly broke. “We’ve made

Re: [UC] The way he should have handled it, were he not playing CYA so desper...

2007-07-15 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/15/2007 12:41:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, MLamond writes: So, Al, are you saying that the Philadelphia candidate, Tom Knox, should have taken the blame for having John Fenton help out with his political rally? No. And, you know, you're ven more adorable when you try

Re: [UC] The way he should have handled it, were he not playing CYA so desper...

2007-07-15 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/15/2007 1:26:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, MLamond writes: Blatant ad hominem attack Most people would think that being called even more adorable was a compliment. Ad hominem praise, so to speak. I guess I could have ignored your question (are you saying ... ?). Or,

[UC] Anybody want a green wedding... free?

2007-07-13 Thread Krfapt
Deperatley Seeking Couple for Free Green Wedding Planning to tie the knot? GreenFest Philly is offering one lucky couple an extraordinary green wedding-FREE- for up to 60 guests. The ceremony / reception will be held at Zagar's magic MOSAIC GARDEN on South Street in downtown

[UC] Booked for the Clark Park Bowl, July 21 -- the twelfth and a half annual running

2007-07-13 Thread Krfapt
Redneck Games Get Downright Muddy AP (http://news.aol.com/weird-news) EAST DUBLIN, Ga. (July 9) - The crowd stood at least six people deep Saturday for the most popular competition at the 12th annual Redneck Games - the Mud Pit Belly Flop. Spectators cheered as they got splattered

[UC] An Act of War: Battle lines are drawn in University City

2007-07-12 Thread Krfapt
City Paper's take on the community, UCD, and the NID _http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/07/12/an-act-of-war_ (http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/07/12/an-act-of-war) ** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at

[UC] A UCD world record - or who redefines corrupt

2007-07-12 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/11/2007 9:49:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: His $65,000 or so a year (as reported by Al Krigman) No, I never quoted John's salary at UCD to anyone. That was in the DN's article by Bob Warner. It was public information, however, in that it

Re: [UC] An Act of War: Battle lines are drawn in University City

2007-07-12 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/12/2007 8:47:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you think that this political stalemate will ever be broken? Mario: The opportunity certainly is there, if the people at the highest levels of Penn actually got the message that their

Re: [UC] A UCD world record - or who redefines corrupt

2007-07-12 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/12/2007 10:17:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Al, Do you think $74,000 is an outrageous overpayment because: 1. she's an employee at a community non-profit. 2. she's an employee at a community non-profit that in your view shouldn't be doing

Re: [UC] An Act of War: Battle lines are drawn in University City

2007-07-12 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/12/2007 1:00:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In that context, UCD made a big mistake by firing Fenton. Within a few weeks people could have gotten past their feelings from the election. Either there were deeper tensions that were already

[UC] Chicken soup for the NID

2007-07-11 Thread Krfapt
Around the turn of the last century, there was a great ethnic theater movement in places like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia -- where lots of immigrants settled. (Supposedly -- probably apocryphally) at one such performance, the famed Jewish tenor, Morris Kaplan, keeled over in the

Re: [UC] Chicken soup for the NID

2007-07-11 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/11/2007 10:38:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: she has repeatedly said she will do what her constituents want. Do you honestly believe that her condemnation of UCD at the First Thursday meeting was anything but an expression of what she has

Re: [UC] Chicken soup for the NID

2007-07-11 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/11/2007 10:58:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe you (or you are misinformed), especially when people are still talking about it. You are known as a scare monger ... They wouldn't be the same people who are still talking about

Re: [UC] Chicken soup for the NID

2007-07-11 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/11/2007 2:48:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why can't I talk about a dead topic, and really ask what the community wants? Why not just tell us what you think you'd be willing to pay for, and that -- realistically -- the majority of

Re: [UC] Chicken soup for the NID

2007-07-11 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/11/2007 3:33:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's because of Al's big secret -- he doesn't actually want a free and open debate about the BID. People who know what others are thinking remind me of the joke in Freud's Wit and its Relation to

[UC] Re: 4 Questions- Answer them in Hebrew (just kidding)

2007-07-11 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/11/2007 6:23:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want your honest opinions where money should come from, how much, who's wiling to help (non-financially) with the physical part, and what should be included if we decided to completely get a

Re: [UC] BID and the Public Record

2007-07-10 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/10/2007 1:44:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still on the fence on this (as many of us might be) The fence has fallen down. The NID as advanced by UCD, Wendell's claim in his UCReview interview notwithstanding, is a dead issue.

Re: [UC] The anointed want to play by their own rules

2007-07-07 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/6/2007 11:11:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This from the man that assisted in the desecration of that building on the 4300 block of Spruce? Wouldn't you look a bit less stupid if you got your facts straight? I sold that building almost

[UC] The anointed want to play by their own rules

2007-07-06 Thread Krfapt
This, from the agenda of the next Philadelphia Historical Commission meeting: 400 S. 40th Street OAP, Inc. (University of Pennsylvania), Owner Anthony Forte, Esq. for Tom Lussenhop, Applicant Rescind designation I hope Penn and that master of architectural sensitivity (witness the

[UC] The Daily News strikes (out) again

2007-07-05 Thread Krfapt
It's almost unbelievable -- The DN took that crap about John Fenton violatingUCD's code of ethics that Wendell Lewis threw in his recent interview in the UCReview and somehow considered it gospel. Al (It must be true, I read it in the paper) Krigman

Re: [UC] BID and the Public Record

2007-07-05 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/5/2007 2:57:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: story about the Mt Airy BID Tony's report, says -- in part: Compared to other BIDs, it is small. It consists of both sides of Germantown Avenue from the 6300 block to the 7600 block. Its budget is

Re: [UC] Sa-ád's

2007-07-04 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 7/3/2007 11:03:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Love Saads. I had Saad cater a meeting I had at my house. In addition to providing far more than enough food (I treated my staff the next day for lunch and had leftovers for dinner the following

Re: [UC] Re: UCD - What I Would Do...

2007-06-28 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 6/28/2007 6:51:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Fenton did MORE for our community than anyone from the UCD, (with a couple of exceptions), black or white. Hey, and you read in the answers Wendell gave in his email interview in the

Re: [UC] Re: UCD - Lewis Wendell and His UCD Lashes Out

2007-06-27 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 6/27/2007 2:51:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: His now public commentary reaffirms the utter ineptitude of Lewis Wendell's command of the UCD and most cogently answers highly regarded local attorney Karen Allen's question of yesterday: Of

Re: [UC] UCD Related

2007-06-26 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 6/26/2007 12:28:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't remember who said it first (it might have been sharrieff) that ultimately UCD is accountable to it's funders. You're not getting the sense of the statement. It was that UCD is accountable

Re: [UC] UCD Related

2007-06-25 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 6/25/2007 3:57:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (to Sali): Currently, the folks on the Board are footing the majority of the bill for clean and safe efforts in wide areas of University City. Do you think they'll keep doing that Wouldn't it

[UC] Brutal Croydan killing update

2007-06-20 Thread Krfapt
From today's Inky: Police search for killer of man found on rooftop By Vernon Clark Inquirer Staff Writer CLEM MURRAY / Inquirer Staff Photographer Transients gain entry to Croydon Apartments, located at the corner of 49th and Locust Streets, from the rear entrance. A 27-year-old

Re: [UC] City Kitties needs help!

2007-06-20 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 6/20/2007 10:45:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my husband and I found a stray [cat] who had what we thought was a broken leg... his leg had to be amputated. ... they are hoping to place him in a permanent home once he recovers. Can you

[UC] Not to be an alarmist, but ... mugging on 45th St

2007-06-19 Thread Krfapt
Mario's experience on Farragut Sansom was disturbing. At least as much so, a resident of 45th between Locust Spruce was held up two doors down from his house -- at gunpoint -- on Sunday evening. In case anyone thinks it's just affluent-looking white people being targeted, this fellow is

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought

2007-06-19 Thread Krfapt
Those making light of this situation ought to be ashamed of themselves. Ray tried to put an end to this by noting that someone died in this incident. And he was mocked by one person and ignored by others trying to outdo themselves in cleverness. I wonder what the tenor of the postings

[UC] Shame on you! University City Gets Rave Review, my foot!

2007-06-18 Thread Krfapt
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, not only for falling for all that unmitigated pap in the University City Report Card (University City District's very costly self-promotion piece giving -- guess who? -- itself a self-serving rave review), but for actually passing it on in what ought to

Re: [UC] Reality check

2007-06-17 Thread Krfapt
Bill Sanderson wrote: How many people here--including Al Krigman--would expect an employer to publicly discuss an issue with an employee that might have serious consequences for both? Not just including me. Perhaps especially me. The employee-employer issue certainly is a private matter unless

Re: [UC] Public Record article Community Associations

2007-06-16 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 6/16/07 8:14:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the “essence of an urban/urbane lifestyle?” Privacy -- both in the sense of granting to and receiving from others. With enjoyment and exercise of specific interests not as a result of planning by

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