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Published: Oct 1, 2008

Choose or Lose

It's too bad they couldn't print the paper with frosting this week [Cover Story, "CP Choice 2008: Just Desserts," Monica Weymouth, Sept. 25, 2008]. I have had at least a dozen different flavors of cupcakes from Whipped Bakeshop, and every time I am amazed with the creativity and innovation. It is a combination of baking and art. Great work Zoë!

Roger
Via citypaper.net

Attention Monica Weymouth: Just writing to let you know how much I truly appreciated your especially awesome segment in Shopping & Style titled "Best Use of the C Word." Especially considering you are a woman. I assume. ... So heartening to see such blatant use of the double standard at the City Paper. Sarah Pain is a c**t because she had the audacity to accept her party's nomination for vice president and you don't agree with her politics? You are a complete disgrace.

Meghan Tighe
Via citypaper.net

Parking Day was a truly amazing event, with participants all over the city [News, "Park It," Holly Otterbein, Sept. 25, 2008]. The organizers, the Parking Authority and the city are to be commended for making it happen. It's time to stop spending scarce public funds to move SUVs down our streets at top speed, and start looking at a different approach. Ms. Zimmerman and her colleagues are doing just that.

MiddleAgedBicyclist
Via citypaper.net

I am reading Citizen Mom's article from the Sept. 11 issue, "Back to School ... In the Suburbs" [News, Amy Z. Quinn] and it made me mad — not as mad as the current economic crisis and John McCain/Sarah Palin, but mad. Amy Quinn writes, "I still don't see many families with school-aged kids. By the time kindergarten looms, they've safely decamped to Havertown or Collingswood or Glenside."

Has she walked around the city at 8 a.m. or a little after 3 p.m. lately? There are hordes of families who are staying in the city and finding many wonderful educational opportunities for their children — private, public and charter. I live in Bella Vista, and my school-age children go to Independence Charter School (ICS), where they are in a Spanish Immersion program. In kindergarten, they not only became amazingly fluent in Spanish, but they studied the history and culture of Mexico and China ... on top of the regular required curriculum for all public schools.

Before picking ICS, we looked at McCall and Meredith, two neighborhood schools. We also looked at Greenfield, another public school in Center City, not to mention Friends Select and the Philadelphia School. Many parents I know go through the same circuit, and we have all found schools that are educating our children while keeping them not only safe, but nurtured, with expanded minds due to the diversity of thought, economic ability, ethnic background and so much more that these schools and the families within afford them. I have no issue with anyone who says that they choose to send their children to a school outside of the city. I just take serious issue with someone saying that they do so because there are no good options within the city of Philadelphia.

Fran Melmed
Philadelphia

Your newspaper has had a distressing trend of comparing other cities to Philadelphia. It usually comes out making Philly look lackluster and "trying" to emulate some of the best aspects of Europe, NYC, California or some other "wonderland." Philadelphia is a unique place that doesn't need to be compared. In fact, it's got a personality and culture that other cities and countries could only wish they had. I'd like to see you start writing more Philly-based news, Philly culture, Philly family life, highlight what makes this city great. After all, the City Paper should be about our city, not fads and politics from outside the region.

Alex Seigfried
Via e-mail

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