Signe’s 2019 Year in Review
From impeachment to potholes, Signe Wilkinson’s favorites from 2019.
The year 2019 will be remembered by many as a year of division, starting at the top. I know from my regular emailers that the divisions are not new or due to the current White House occupants, because they really began under President Barack Obama. (Though, apparently, the economic recovery did not.)
Several things have stayed the same throughout the last decade, like the inability to stem gun violence, improve our poorest schools, or pave Philadelphia’s potholed streets.
In Philadelphia we just reelected most of the people who have presided over our violent, potholed streets, though City Council did just manage to improve our tax abatement on new construction and ban most plastic bags.
In 2020 we will likely have a chance to vote for someone who doesn’t cuddle up to porn stars, racists, and dictators who use poison and dismemberment to quiet their critics. We the voters will be the impeachment jury.
We weren't the first on this continent to face hordes of strangers fleeing persecution.
Everyone has dreams.
If we were looking for a way to do reparations, we could do worse than give the poorest among us the same educations as the richest.
A taxpayer rip-off that drains money from all public and regular charter schools.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 98 leader John Dougherty has yet to plead his case in federal court but is still plugged in to City Hall.
It would be easier to vote the bums out if we could get to the polls in Philadelphia.
You just can't be too careful these days.
I'm all for the "well-regulated" part of the Second Amendment.
It takes two.
Block that fact. And that one. And that one…
I'm looking forward to voting on impeachment come next November.
We are all in this together.