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On August 24, 2025, SEPTA eliminated 32 Philadelphia bus routes — Route 31, the West Philadelphia crosstown, among them. 52,000 Philadelphia students rely on SEPTA to get to school.
Philadelphia pulled $1.2B in NIH funding in 2024. Penn alone could lose $250M/year to proposed federal cuts.
Philadelphia's school district used ZIP codes as a race proxy while claiming race-neutrality. The Third Circuit called it out — deeper problem remains.
Rivers Casino for low stakes poker, Roberto Clemente Park for toddler energy, the Rocky steps for cardio, and more — the places that make this city feel like home.
Washington Avenue has been a deadly corridor for a decade. 71% of survey respondents chose the safest design. The city scheduled another meeting instead.
How Philly Taxes You · Part 8 of 8
Philadelphia charges its poorest zip codes 3.6 times the fee rate per dollar of tax debt that it charges its wealthiest ones.
How Philly Taxes You · Part 7 of 8
Philadelphia \u00a7 19-2504 taxes vacant lots at 10% of assessed value \u2014 seven times the regular property tax rate. About 7% of parcels are vacant land; far fewer are taxed at it.
How Philly Taxes You · Part 6 of 8
Philadelphia's $2.00 'school district' cigarette tax — higher than NYC's $1.50. A workaround for state preemption that raises $40-80M/year.
Three attempts at guitar, three failures. It requires consistency and life keeps getting in the way. Plus I genuinely struggle to hear the difference between notes unless they're really far apart.
How Philly Taxes You · Part 5 of 8
Philadelphia's Realty Transfer Tax jumped to 3.578% in July 2025 — one of the highest in PA. Combined with the state, every transaction pays 4.578%.
How Philly Taxes You · Part 4 of 8
Philadelphia's tax structure pressures ~9,000 upper-income households to leave each year while locking lower-income families in. A $5 tax cut won't fix it.
How Philly Taxes You · Part 3 of 8
Parker's 0.01% Philadelphia wage tax cut saves a $50K family $5/year. The $1.9B tax generates real revenue; this is theatre.
A 2025 anniversary video. A YouTube comment section where everyone was positive. The animators understood what it meant to us.
How Philly Taxes You · Part 2 of 8
Philadelphia's parking tax sat at 15% for 21 years (1987-2008). The current 22.5% rate is in the upper third of major US cities.
How Philly Taxes You · Part 1 of 8
Philadelphia is one of the last major US cities to tax gross receipts. BIRT charges 1.410 mills on revenue and 5.71% on net income. Phases to zero by 2038.
The counterintuitive math: Pay MORE cash and LESS equity → employees capture more value, work harder, AND it costs you less. This isn't theory—it's 40 years of compensation research and practitioner experience.
Every November, the Controller's office puts out a report on the cost of Thanksgiving dinner. Meanwhile, they missed $33 million in missing variance and nearly a billion in accounting errors. This is a fucking joke.
Living on a block with a block party permit is associated with about 2 percentage points more turnout at the polls. A 2024 study by Raychaudhuri, Davidson, and Jones-Correa found the association, and it is larger than most expensive get-out-the-vote campaigns.
Stop bleeding EV: Squeezing limpers must account for rake and non-ideal folds. The math is brutal, and most players are massively overestimating the EV of this spot.
What you actually do during a 12-hour poker session when 90% of your hands are garbage — Cowboy Bebop, reading Moby Dick, writing code. The poker room knows me as the honest guy. That's why the laptop is just a quirk.