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It's Our Money/City Howl Four billion dollars -- that's about how much city government spends every year. Where does all that money come from, and where does it go?

Are we getting the most bang for our tax buck in Philadelphia? “It's Our Money” is a joint project between the Philadelphia Daily News and WHYY, funded by the William Penn Foundation, designed to find out. "It's Our Money" seeks answers to these questions. Visit our site to learn about and discuss Philadelphia city government. You can also check out our podcast every Monday at Newsworks.org, and r

ead our "Help Desk" column about city services Wednesdays in the Daily News. If you want to tell us about a recent experience with city services, go to www.thecityhowl.com, call 215-854-5855 or email [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter: for budget news, for city service news.

The Pension Blob might eat the budget alive. See how pension costs have been growing since '96 & how much of the city's ...
03/15/2012

The Pension Blob might eat the budget alive. See how pension costs have been growing since '96 & how much of the city's pension liability is unfunded in our graphs.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/our-money/The-Pension-Blob.html

News blogs, sports blogs, entertainment blogs, and more from Philly.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.

Check out our guide to the monsters lurking in the city budget. First, an easy-to-read pie chart of where the city's mon...
03/14/2012

Check out our guide to the monsters lurking in the city budget. First, an easy-to-read pie chart of where the city's money comes from and where Mayor Nutter wants it to go: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/our-money/Philadelphian-Horror-Story.html

News blogs, sports blogs, entertainment blogs, and more from Philly.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.

03/07/2012

In this week's City Howl Help Desk, we clean up a greasy street in Northern Liberties. Have people been dumping cooking oil or leaving 5-gallon containers of oil in your neighborhood?

http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/city_howl/20120307_City_Howl_Help_Desk__IT_S_THE_SQUEAKY-CLEAN_STREET_THAT_GETS_THE_GREASE_IN_NOLIBS.html

IT TAKES only a day to turn a well-kept side street into a big, greasy pit. It's happened twice in the last month on Orianna Street in Northern Liberties, a local business owner named Christina tells us. One day Orianna looked fine. The next, there was a huge, sticky wet spot on the sidewalk.

03/07/2012

Last month, Holly Otterbein wrote about legal advocates who say that as many as thousands of the debts allegedly owed to the Philadelphia court system are inaccurate. Now, the court system is planning to enact reforms that will make it easier for people to challenge debts they believe are wrong: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120307_Debt_cases_court_reform.html

For her first piece on how thousands of court debts could be wrong: http://articles.philly.com/2012-02-13/news/31054956_1_court-administrator-debt-first-judicial-district

PHILADELPHIA's court system, the First Judicial District, is enacting reforms to make it easier for people to challenge court debts they believe are inaccurate.

03/07/2012

Sorry we've been neglecting our page, everyone -- we'll get back on it!

Could you go a month without power? Help Desk checks in on two Philly neighborhoods that complained to 3-1-1 in Septembe...
10/26/2011

Could you go a month without power? Help Desk checks in on two Philly neighborhoods that complained to 3-1-1 in September and just got their streetlights turned back on:

EVERY KID knows that he's not supposed to walk down a dark street. But that old rule is tough to follow if the dark street is your own block. Unfortunately, the residents of two Philly streets recently had to deal with this dilemma for nearly two months after their streetlights went out - and their ...

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