BUZZCommunications - Public Realtions, Political Consulting, Advocacy and Community Relations in Philadelphia

the latest buzz

PR maven Harriet Lessy thinks waitstaff ought to be required to know what's on their menus. Case in point: She recently dined out with friends whose granddaughter is dangerously allergic to nuts - especially peanuts.

"We were assured that there was nothing in the dish she ordered that was cooked with the offending legumes," says Harriet. But when the fish entree was delivered, "it had crushed peanuts as a garnish."

Issues we care about

Online Social Services

For Philadelphia-area residents in need of counseling, food assistance and other social services, help is now just a mouse-click away. A Web site connecting people to thousands of social-service organizations in southeastern Pennsylvania is now online.
Read more...

Junk Food

Banning soda and snack food from the Philadelphia School District in 2006 was meant to make students healthier, but it has also had an unintended effect: the loss of $2 million to $3 million in revenue to the district each year.
Read more...

Saving the House

Thanks to a recent court order by Common Pleas President Judge C. Darnell Jones II, lenders must sit down with delinquent borrowers in front of a judge and make a good- faith effort to rework the mortgage loan and save the owner-occupied house from foreclosure sale.
Read more...

Arts and Needs

The civic uproar over the pending sale of Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic for $68 million raises complex questions about our society's priorities and values.
Read more...

Green Lightbulbs

Wal-Mart has a bright idea to save energy, reduce air pollution, and slow global warming: Sell better lightbulbs.

If every household replaced just one standard lightbulb with an energy-efficient compact fluorescent, the savings could light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent global-warming gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars.