No. Even if this does become more akin to George Floyd, it still took time from the original Minneapolis protests to spread nationwide. And unlike Floyd this led to immediate consequences for the cops, and the authorities got to manage the video release

I'd be more worried about the Atlanta killing, that body cam footage is due to be out soon as well and that person was an activist and those cops have not been fired. If that video shows an illegitimate killing that could lead to more protests

After a traffic stop in Memphis a bunch of cops beat a guy to death, and they just released video and body camera footage

A few years ago I managed to convince some of my old HS friends to take a day trip out there with me as the impromptu tour guide. I had a great time but I think I was the only one lol

Best battlefields in the US are Antietam and Shiloh. By far the best preserved battlefields - Gettysburg is great and has more infrastructure than the rest, but the majesty of the moment falls a bit short when you see the McDonald's drive through at the center of the Union lines on Cemetery Hill

Highly underrated battlefield is Malvern Hill. Almost completely unchanged from 1862 other than a bit more tree cover

Some people see walking around and looking at monuments as a tourist destination! Not going to be adventure tourism, but "heritage" tourism is a thing

To each their own, I was the kind of kid that loved going to battlefields (yes I know VF was not a battle, I volunteered there as a teenager). One of my fondest childhood memories is my dad taking me to Gettysburg and doing a guided tour there. Love me some people dressed up in 18th/19th century costumes holding muskets

Wonder if the Valley Creek trail is back open, it got shut down last year after that massive rainstorm that flooded 676 washed big parts of it out

That's what happened to the "Logan Triangle" in north philly (if you were ever browsing google maps and wondered why there were randomly a bunch of completely empty blocks with a full street grid. Except there the creek that had been there (40 feet deep in places) was not only filled in, but filled in with coal ash which is basically the worst possible landfill material - it's not at all dense, erodes easily, and is both flammable and creates flammable gas

birds by a million

Nutter is also popular, but his base was west philly instead of Street in north philly. And there are rumblings that Nutter might endorse Rhynhart as well, which would be quite the accomplishment considering that Street and Nutter hate each other

It would highly depend on whether or not she was promising to appoint Street friends to her administration. Street's policy goals were generally good, his big problem was terrible appointment of his corrupt friends and associates and family to important positions

Street left office pretty popular and he's got connections and name recognition to the black North Philadelphia voters that are going to by Rhynhart's big weakness

His administration had many corruption scandals, though most if it was tied to Street associates, appointees, and hangers on (particularly his brother). Frankly overshadowed a lot of the good he did, a necessary corrective from the Rendell years, his admin's focus was on investing city resources at the local level in neighborhoods (vs Rendell was more focused on big name big ticket Center City revitalizations). But he was corrupt personally and created a very corrupt political culture

Big deal endorsement in such a crowded primary, particularly her big weakness being that she has less name recognition outside of policy circles. If she can get Nutter on board two (street and nutter are not fans of each other, to put it lightly) she'd probably be one of if not the frontrunners

When I lived there One and One in the East Village was my go to. Shorty’s in the LES also

Found this inky article https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/best-philadelphia-eagles-bars-new-york-city-20211124.html?outputType=amp

Could easily do trolleybuses too, doesn't even need to be full rail

> SIS

Safe Injection Site

Thanks for the perspective, glad you got out safe. Def remember reading stories in local media about tranq at least 3-4 years ago

Really is classic NYT, parachute into a story that local media has been talking about for years and don't link to any local reporting. Still a good article but late to the picture

As far as I understand people aren't ODing on the tranq. The problem with tranq is

1. The injection sites create abscesses which get infected
2. Tranq's effects look like opioid overdoses, leading to accidental over administration of narcan

There's a British documentary I watched a while ago called The Wet House, basically a dorm for homeless alcoholics in London where they are allowed to keep drinking, basically somewhere they can safely drink themselves to death. It's a grim documentary, but it was better than those people still being alcoholics but homeless instead (one guy in it had horrible scars after somebody set him on fire while he was sleeping in a park)

I honestly feel like we should give that a shot, what we are doing now is clearly not working

Story in the NYT about Xylazine in the heroin/fentanyl supply in Kensington and its horrible effects

Ambulance chaser law is a cutthroat business, there's a reason these guys spend on advertising and the high dollar firms don't. Annoying as they are, Morgan and Morgan's ad campaign has very likely given them a much higher name recognition than the other competing ambulance chasers, and did it for little extra cost - a billboard costs what a billboard costs, but a more effective ad is invaluable

As somebody who works tangentially in the ad business, the greatest (probably apocryphal) quote about advertisement comes from Philadelphia's own John Wanamaker. "Half of what I spend on advertisement is wasted. Problem is, I don't know which half"

He didn’t live there for that long, just grew up there, and he kind of sucked at the whole war thing. It’s the site of the Jefferson hospital Wawa, probably knocked down during the expansion there

Other people have mentioned his Civil War service - after the war Meade became the commissioner of Fairmount Park and other than when commanding units in the Reconstruction South, lived out the rest of his life in Philadelphia, dying here of complications of war wounds. A house gifted to his widow by the city still stands at 1836 Delancy, with his name carved over the lintel

McClellan was also from Philadelphia (his birth house is now a Wawa)

The photos of the crime scene leaked - the way it was described did not match the reality. The body was "in a freezer", but there was blood everywhere and it looked like the person was dumped there very recently. Media coverage made it sound like it was a serial killer and we're just finding a body now after they'd been dead for months, not at all what the scene looked like

I'm fortunate to live in a part of the city where there were "only" 3 shootings within a couple blocks, all of them thankfully non-fatal. But depressing to see that none of them had an open court case. Two of the three happened in broad daylight!