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Philadelphia recently continued to show gaps in public oversight. Amid calls for the police commissioner to resign, the city’s growing murder crisis is already up 46 percent from last year’s record-setting rate. At the same time, a scandal surfaced that showed the mayor and City Council entrusted the roll out of COVID vaccines to a 22-year-old huckster with no health-care background. Furthermore, a report paid for by the City Controller’s office showed how the city failed to prepare for a...

Police body camera footage obtained exclusively by NBC10 shows how unprepared and ill-equipped Philadelphia police were in responding to the 2020 protests...

Icepack | Feb. 4-11 One lawyer who visited Jeffery Epstein in jail days before his suicide (Hey, isn’t that from “Godfather 2?”); one Montgomery County DA who declined to arrest Bill Cosby in 2005 after Andrea Constand filed her lawsuit against the Cos (hey, doesn’t that sound like something DA Krasner would do?); the men charged to lead Trump’s legal defense team in the upcoming impeachment trial: Come on down, Philly’s Bruce L. Castor and David Schoen. If there is shiftiness to be...

WHYY By Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw responds to the city controller’s report critical of her handling of mass protests over the summer of 2020. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Updated: 5:30 p.m. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said Thursday she will not resign over her department’s handling of the protests and civil unrest sparked by last year’s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. During a news conference at police headquarters a day after the release of a...

Thousands of people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd, but the peaceful demonstrations later turned violent. Among the reports recommendations is an independent director of the Office of Emergency Management, a role currently filled by Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel. It also called for stricter rules on the use of tear gas already in line with the city banning its use during demonstrations. "The tear gas was used indiscriminately on innocent bystanders and protesters," Rhynhart said. ...

Photo by Submitted Yorkton Council approved a resolution at its regular meeting Monday conforming the city meets the eligibility requirements to receive the Municipal Revenue Sharing Grant. The Ministry of Government Relations annually provides funding to the City in the form of a revenue sharing grant. This grant is a portion of the PST collected by the Province and is distributed to cities based on population, explained Amber Matechuk, City Controller with the City at the ...

Fresh More than three months into the U.S. vaccination drive, many of the numbers paint an increasingly encouraging picture, with 70% of Americans 65 and older receiving at least one dose of the vaccine and COVID-19 deaths dipping below 1,000 a day on average for the first time since November. 2 hours ago in Sports Fresh The Big Ten has announced its schools will be allowed to set attendance policies the rest of the spring based on local health guidelines instead of by confe...

Updated on December 24, 2020 at 6:58 pm NBC Universal, Inc. San Francisco-based businessman and entrepreneur Dwayne Jones has made quite a living over the last decade, consulting on a unique city program he himself helped create. Records show that the former mayor’s office official and his consulting firm, RDJ Enterprises, netted at least $7 million in consulting contracts after partnering with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in 2011 to craft the agency’s Community Benefits pr...

Philadelphia, PA - Jeffrey Blackwell, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 22 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $25,612 in restitution for misusing his official position with the Philadelphia City Controllers Office to enrich himself by soliciting and accepting bribes, and for committing additional tax crimes. Blackwell pleaded guilty in August 2020 to charges of honest services wire fraud, filing a false tax return, and two counts of failure to file...

How to (Really) Fix a Drug Scandal: San Francisco’s District Attorney Sets a Strong Example By Nina Morrison and Sarah Chu (Image: Drew Hays/Unsplash) Last month, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin publicly posted a list of cases potentially affected by misconduct recently discovered at the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). His office’s decision to fully assess the misconduct and commit to transparency stands in stark contrast to the ways in which public o...