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The Inquirer did not cover the House vote on SB 862. In the past the paper has largely ignored the debate about whether Philadelphia should retain its zoning power occasionally running wire service stories like this one, but doing nothing in the way of original reporting. For example, in the past month two press conferences and a symposium concerning SB 862 took place. The Inquirer did not cover two of them and ran this brief, narrowly focused report on a two day symposium attended by three state representatives and labor leader John Dougherty.
The Inquirer's lack of interest in an issue affecting large numbers of its readers is a mystery. It's not resources that is preventing the Inquirer from covering SB 862. The paper has a well-staffed Harrisburg bureau of three full time reports--Mario Cattabiani, Amy Worden and Angela Couloumbis. This is more staff than the two Pittsburgh papers have stationed in Harrisburg. In addition the Inky has put Jeff Shields on the state-wide casino beat. Any one of these four reporters could have covered the House vote--yet no one was assigned.
The fact that the Daily News--with a fraction of the Inky's staff--has published two original news stories--also suggests that whatever the hold-up at the Inquirer it's not lack of staff.
Does the lack of coverage strike you as odd? Write a letter to the Inky's top editors and ask for an explanation.