William Bender
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Reporter @PhillyInquirer/@PhillyDailyNews, investigations team. Public corruption, gov't accountability, fraudsters, grifters. Tennis. 🎾🎾🎾
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24-03-2009 20:24:23
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This got a bit lost in the mix last week with a lot of budget news, but credit where due ... at Philly is now trying to do *something* about courtesy tows
inquirer.com/news/courtesy-…
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker Philadelphia Police Department
Millions of dollars in tax revenue is going uncollected. Sheriff Bilal is blaming the city Law Department, but The Mayor’s Office says it’s Bilal's problem to fix. inquirer.com/news/sheriff-b… a big weird one from William Bender Ryan W Briggs
“Otherwise you have to believe that Earth is a miracle. I don’t. It’s just never true that you only find one example of something in nature.”
Good read by Joel Achenbach on what's out there ... and whether *there* might always be too far away
washingtonpost.com/science/2023/1…
When Gar Joseph threw David Gambacorta and I into the 2015 mayoral election at the last minute and we went to The Palm to “report” on politics …
RIP Clout Page RIP The Palm
William Bender POV: Lt. Columbo has just one more thing to ask you about the night in question
Didier Epopa went to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital to be treated for COVID. Then an IV bag was mislabeled, and he mistakenly received a medication that causes paralysis. Wendy Ruderman probes how medical errors like this continue to happen. The Philadelphia Inquirer inquirer.com/health/inq2/me…