You could easily miss this note from "Heard in the Hall" in the Inquirer this morning, but it looks like Councilwoman Tasco is doing right by the long term interests of the city. More big box development near Roosevelt Boulevard is tempting, but we won't really be happy with it. I hope she can make something a little more in the vein of Northern Liberties happen up there.

It's going on 22 years since Logan Triangle was declared a federal disaster area. This year, Councilwoman Marian Tasco was hoping to find a proposal that could integrate some housing with retail and commercial uses and possibly a community center. Instead, the two proposals that came back, one from Tower Investments and one from the Goldenberg Group, had the look and feel of a suburban, big-box shopping center, said Tasco's chief legislative aide, Derek Green.

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The Legislator and the Agitator. Rep. Payton and I were talking recently about the lack of podcasts about Pennsylvania politics. We're both pretty involved in it in our own way, so we had the idea of starting our own podcast. The intent is to give the inside and the outside perspective of two people working on the same political side. This is our first episode. In the future, we'll go more into each other's background and also try to spend more time talking about how we do what we do.

This first podcast is pretty topical, though. Show notes below. It's a little under an hour, but divided into four main segments, of about 15 minutes each. In other words, we have your next four walks to/from work covered. Fire up that Ipod, Pennsylvania!

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