soda tax – Temple Update https://templeupdate.com On Air. Online. On Now. Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:06:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://kleinsites-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/home/smcsites/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/47/files/2020/08/27112012/cropped-templeupdate-4-32x32.jpg soda tax – Temple Update https://templeupdate.com 32 32 Election Night: Mayor Kenney Wins https://templeupdate.com/election-night-jim-kenny-vs-billy-ciangalini/ https://templeupdate.com/election-night-jim-kenny-vs-billy-ciangalini/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2019 23:37:02 +0000 https://templeupdate.com/?p=20144 View More » ]]> Incumbent Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney has been declared the 99th Mayor of Philadelphia just after 10pm. In his acceptance speech, he recalled his initial bid for Mayor in 2015, a campaign he said wanted to do something radical, prove that “Every neighborhood and every child matters.” He said he’s proud to be the education mayor. Kenney won 84% of the vote, with 86,250 votes by 10:30pm…

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Philadelphia New Pre-K Program Dependent on Beverage Tax Funds https://templeupdate.com/13468-2/ https://templeupdate.com/13468-2/#respond Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:09:28 +0000 https://templeupdate.com/?p=13468 sugary beverage tax. View More » ]]> The City of Philadelphia’s Revenue Department has announced that they’ve collected about $6.4 million in the month of February from the sugary beverage tax. That amount is up $5 million from the first month that the tax was implemented in January of 2017. While the beverage tax continues to cause controversy among both distributors and consumers, many may not know that the city’s new pre-K…

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