Tag: philadelphia

• Know Your History: Octavius Catto

  I’ll admit. I was not familiar with the story of Octavius Catto – black activist after the Civil War – until I came across his story in an unexpected place: MLB historian John Thorn’s terrific book Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. Catto was very much a renaissance…

  sassevn

  April 17, 2021

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  19th century abolitionists, baseball players of the 19th century, philadelphia

• aPOPcalypse Upon Us: The Country’s First Soda-Pop Tax

  According to various new reports, Philadelphia passed the country’s first soda-pop tax – 1.5 cents per ounce, which will be used to fund educational and other projects. It wouldn’t have been hard to predict that this was coming. The amount of food-related bans and taxes have long foreshadowed the coming APOPcalypse. We’ve seen things like:…

  sassevn

  June 20, 2016

  Current Events

  big government, philadelphia, pop tax, soda tax, tax on food