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This article was published by The Philadelphia Daily News. Click here to read the article on the publisher’s website.

THERE ARE 2,565 municipalities in Pennsylvania. Only one has a law that raises the minimum wage above that set by the federal and state governments.

Can you guess which municipality is the ONLY one with a local law that raises the minimum wage? Go ahead. Take a stab at it. If you guessed Philadelphia, you get a gold star.

Welcome to the recently enacted “Philadelphia 21st Century Minimum Wage Standard.” This impressive-sounding ordinance is another instance of City Council and Mayor Street putting politics over good government and pandering to special-interest groups.

It simply makes it more expensive to do business in Philadelphia. Read More

This article was published by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Click here to read the article on the publisher’s website.

Let me get one thing out of the way: I am against slavery. It seems like it was never a good idea. Of course, I have no experience with slavery since it has been outlawed since about a century before I was born.

Even though there is not any slavery here, Philadelphia City Council seems unnecessarily obsessed with it. They passed a bill that will require any business seeking a city contract to search their records and disclose whether their company ever profited from slavery.

Let’s see. City Council could not bring to a vote a bill to ban smoking in public places. City Council could not pass a new ethics bill at a time when the federal corruption trial brings embarrassing revelations every day that point out why we need a new ethics bill. Yet, City Council passed a slavery disclosure bill. Read More