Tomorrow is the sentencing court for Lin and an opportunity for some long sought closure. I won’t re-hash the events leading up to this date, but encourage readers to visit the archives to gain a real sense of the tragedy that has unfolded over these past two years.
This case could’ve been handled so much better [...]

[Received via email on February 16, 2009]
Open Letter to the PSPCA Board of Directors
We have failed in our responsibility to care for the animals of our city - well over ten-thousand animals are killed every year in Philadelphia, and I can’t understand how anyone can feel anything but absolute outrage.
I have never experienced an environment [...]

Reader comments from Gail Schister’s article in the Philadelphia Inquirer that appeared on Friday February 13. Happy to see other readers calling the Inquirer out on their one-sided pro PSPCA bias.
1derwhy suggests therapy is in order for Mr. Nelson. I won’t disagree.
Posted by 1derwhy 10:06 AM, 02/13/2009
Again, sad. Doesn’t matter if this guy did a [...]

For me, the best part of news articles frequently unfolds in the reader comments section.
It is there that you start to get a sense of the “real picture” of an issue - as opposed to the individual reporter’s presentation of it.
Here are some of the early comments on Stu Bykofsky’s article: PSPCA top dog suddenly [...]

In his most recent “Shelter News From Around The Country” blog post, Nathan says:

Chaos in Philadelphia
So now the future of Philadelphia’s homeless animals rests with the part-time, volunteer Board of the PSPCA. Will they use this opportunity to hire a director fully committed to a No Kill Philadelphia? Or will they repeat the mistakes of [...]

“Redhot” isn’t just for candy
I’ve been listening to Howard Nelson for a year. I know what his policies are. I know what his stated plans are. I don’t need 400 words to describe my hope for Howard Nelson; I need four: “I hope he fails.”
My point… that I do not want Howard Nelson to succeed [...]

By Susan Koomar
Record Senior Managing Editor
January 29, 2009
The Pa. SPCA board of directors held an emergency meeting this week where it voted to close its Monroe County shelter, according to state Rep. John Siptroth, D-189.
“Emergency meeting”. Hmmm. Little bit of a meltdown going on in Philly, no?
Siptroth said PSPCA chief executive Howard Nelson told him [...]

May 2-3, 2009 - Washington, D.C.
From www.nokillconference.org:
Join us in the nation’s capital where the most successful shelter directors and top animal law attorneys will help you create No Kill communities and use the legal system to save lives. The national No Kill conference in Washington D.C. is unlike any you have ever been to.
The No [...]

Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association
2002-08
R.I.P.
THE FIRST ERUPTION after the city’s decision on Monday to hand the city’s animal-control contract to the Pennsylvania SPCA (which dropped it in 2002) was not between the PSPCA and ousted provider PACCA, but between Councilman Jack Kelly and Mayor Nutter.
During a previously scheduled meeting on the budget, a furious [...]

It’s time to put animal control into the hands of the law.
by Tara Murtha
Philadelphia Weekly
December 3, 2008
Philadelphia’s turned yet another page in our gruesome ongoing struggle for humane animal control.
Late Monday, the Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association (PACCA) lost the contract for animal control when the city awarded it to the Pennsylvania Society for [...]