SugarHoused

I try to avoid posting links to current events when my only comment is "Yeah!" or "Nuh-uh!" I owe it to all of us to have something more substantial to say.

But I'm basically in the "Yeah!" camp on this story about our new mayor revoking the SugarHouse casino license.

The mayor reiterated that he is not a fan of the site for the SugarHouse or the Foxwoods casinos. In the case of SugarHouse, he said, concerns about traffic, parking, congestion and more were "brushed to the side" by the Street administration in a process that he characterized as improper. "It was an abuse of a discretion," Nutter said.

Mayor Nutter has not only 135 square miles of genuine problems to manage, but the mile-high, and perhaps unreasonable, hopes of tens of thousands of Philadelphians that he can be the fulcrum for change in this city. He might not achieve everything we hope for him to.

But if he accomplishes little else, I will remember this moment fondly: when Mayor Nutter neatly and plainly overturned the decision of the prior corrupt administration, frustrating a backroom deal that benefits rich and thoughtless people at the expense of those who live in their wake turbulence.

He didn't do it on moral grounds; he did it on professionalism grounds. How novel. How refreshing. Yeah.