A political challenger to Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is criticizing a supervised injection site proposed for the city. Speaking at a contentious community forum in Kensington last night, Democratic state Sen. Anthony Williams said he opposes opening a place where people addicted to drugs could use them under medical supervision. A rowdy crowd attended the […]
Tonight’s forum on Safe injection Sites is not an issue of black and white. It’s an issue of wrong and right. Latinos, whites and blacks live together in Harrowgate and Kensington, where a non-profit chaired by Ed Rendell wants to spend almost $2 million a year for a safe injection site. The neighbors there […]
Not only are developers kicking black people out of Philly’s gentrifying communities. They’re teaming up with big shots to open drug houses for mostly white addicts. Former Mayor Ed Rendell is getting a free lease from a major developer to open a city-sanctioned drug house at Kensington and Allegheny. Mayor Jim Kenney and DA Larry […]
A Philadelphia police officer was shot in a thigh Wednesday morning when he and his partner “interrupted a shooting” in Kensington and got into a gun battle with at least one of the suspects, Police Commissioner Richard Ross said. Officer Paul Sulock, 31, was in stable condition and in good spirits at Temple University Hospital […]
