NEWS> The Continuing Adventures of Philadelphia are Brought to You By ......!!

From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:20:30 -0600
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:06:04 -0500 (EST)


NEWS: The Continuing Adventures of Philadelphia are Brought to You By .......!!

There is a national emergency at the state, city, county and local levels
for funding state and local governments for a variety of reasons
including, in addition to bad economic times, Federal Government cutbacks
in a number of education technology programs and the use of Federal tax
dollars with church and religious organization run welfare programs rather
than state and local government run programs that are contributing to this
problem.  This funding crisis is leading to quite a few novel approaches
to funding of government including the creation of government run casinos
to raise revenues for running state government programs.

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Stigmatized and Standardized Varieties in the Classroom:
Interference or Separation? What is among the most serious social
problems that our country faces? The failure of inner-city schools
to teach children to read.
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Here is a novel idea for government funding found in a Philadelphia
Inquirer article:

Philadelphia Looks into Trading on Its Name
Officials are studying whether to let companies use the city as a
marketing tool. They say it could bring in millions.
By Anthony S. Twyman
Inquirer Staff Writer
<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/5151613.htm>

They are not quite ready to replace Billy Penn with a Pepsi bottle, but
the folks in City Hall think there is money to be made hawking everything
from soft drinks to computer software.

Street administration officials said yesterday that they planned to hire a
firm to look into whether Philadelphia should allow private companies to
use the city's name to market their products.

For a price, then, Dr Pepper could call itself the official drink of
Philadelphia, or Nike could slap its name on any number of recreation
centers.

"Each one of our citizens represent a potential market for these
companies," Janice Davis, the city's finance director, said during a
budget hearing before City Council yesterday.

City officials were sketchy on the details. But they said that they expect
such promotional deals could bring the city about $12 million over the
next five years. That revenue is sorely needed to offset a budget deficit
expected to climb to $834 million by mid-2008 if steps are not taken soon.

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