Government

No budget, no pay Kyle Sammin August 26, 2025 August 25, 2025

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It is rare nowadays to look to the city of Philadelphia for a lesson in good governance. But that wasn’t always the case. In the 1950s, a brief ray of good-government sunshine penetrated the jungle canopy of corruption that usually shrouds the City of Brotherly Love. The jungle soon reasserted itself, but we still have the memory of that light enshrined in the Philadelphia City Charter of 1951 — or, at least, in those parts of it that still remain from those days.

I’ve written before about how the state and federal governments should adopt Philly’s resign-to-run law. This summer, another section of the charter has seemed especiall

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