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OK, it is the Philadelphia Land Bank but over 50 Frankford properties are now in the bank, so we have a big stake in it. This should improve the chance that they will be put back into productive use.
Follow this link to a map of the properties. Click on the icon for the exact address of each. Follow the link below to read the entire story.
Source: Phila. Land Bank now open for business
There is currently no state budget and no plan from our state as to how much funding will be given to the students this year. The school district taking out loans does nothing to remedy the solution long term and simply covers up a much bigger problem in the State legislature. If a budget does not pass, the school district gets one step closer to falling apart and if more money is not allotted to pay money back to the loan we just took out, future students suffer more.
Lack of funding has been a long-standing issue plaguing the Philadelphia School District. Over these past years, schools have seen cuts in teaching staff and faculty and student extracurricular activities – clubs and sports. Recently, we have seen a large number of schools shut down as a result of overcrowding, poor building quality and lack of funding, however, this problem can be managed and dealt with and worked out and for sure it will be.
The back and forth between our state legislators, however, seems as though it may never end. Almost three hundred million dollars are being paid each year towards outstanding debts. The situation is ridiculous and has been for some time. America is not, by any means, a poor nation and there is no reason for ten percent of our school budget to be paid to loans and interest that we wouldn’t need if not for a serious budget issue.
Could our schools have their loans paid off? A bailout of some sort? We know that we have received less than the students before us and we can only see this trend continuing and worsening for the students after us. It is imperative that a solution is found and quickly.
Tony Qiu and Devan Kartha
Masterman Class of 2016
Five people were taken to hospitals after an early-morning fire in Northeast Philadelphia.The Philadelphia Fire Department said crews were called to the blaze in the two-story rowhouse on the 4600 block of Oakland Street in the Northwood section just before 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The technologies just stopped a San Francisco neighborhood’s “wig” bandit. Is the loss of privacy worth making cops’ jobs easier?
A wise person, Jamie Fader (Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple), told me that crime has a season and November seems to prove that point. Crime is down, along with the temps. Do we have fair weather crooks in Frankford? It looks like it.
However don’t let your guard down, burglars do know you are going to be getting lots of new stuff for holidays and they want you to share it with them.
When you get all that new stuff, make sure you record the serial numbers of any equipment that has one. If the unthinkable does happen and it is lost through theft, that information makes it possible to reclaim the property if it is later pawned at a licensed pawn shop.
Joe Krause, President of the Northwood Civic suggests taking pictures of everything with your phone including the back where the serial numbers are. That is really a great idea as long as you then store the pictures someplace safe like Dropbox.com or Google drive.
Below is a summary of the data and you can follow this link to the detailed report.
| Dec-14 | Jan-15 | Feb-15 | Mar-15 | Apr-15 | May-15 | Jun-15 | Jul-15 | Aug-15 | Sep-15 | Oct-15 | Nov-15 | |
| Aggravated Assault Firearm | 5 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 9 |
| Aggravated Assault No Firearm | 17 | 11 | 12 | 19 | 14 | 26 | 16 | 24 | 16 | 24 | 24 | 12 |
| Burglary Non Residential | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Burglary Residential | 14 | 15 | 9 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 25 | 21 | 37 | 34 | 25 | 22 |
| Homicide | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Homicide – gross negligence | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Motor Vehicle Recovery | 26 | 15 | 16 | 29 | 24 | 32 | 27 | 22 | 21 | 17 | 19 | 16 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 6 |
| Rape | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Robbery Firearm | 22 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 13 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 17 |
| Robbery no Firearm | 6 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 12 |
| Theft | 49 | 36 | 32 | 45 | 37 | 78 | 64 | 63 | 54 | 49 | 33 | 41 |
| Theft from Vehicle | 21 | 19 | 9 | 17 | 17 | 9 | 20 | 42 | 22 | 19 | 55 | 29 |
| Total | 184 | 163 | 123 | 171 | 157 | 213 | 214 | 224 | 227 | 194 | 202 | 170 |
| days | 31 | 31 | 28 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 31 | 30 |
| Average per day | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 5.7 |
PSA1 includes the area between Bridge Street and the Frankford Creek from Roosevelt Boulevard to the Delaware River.
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