Fra Noi Embrace Your Inner Italian
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court unanimously ruled 7-0 that former Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney didn’t have the power four years ago to replace Columbus Day as an official city holiday with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The court found that former Mayor Kenney violated the city charter. “The power to establish, change or eliminate official city holidays is essentially a legislative power,” Judge Patricia McCullough wrote in a unanimous 21-page opinion. “This unanimous decision affirms both the rule of law and the value of our Italian American heritage,” declared George Bochetto, national counsel for the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations and the attorney who spearheaded the legal effort to preserve the statue.
— Ralph Cipriano
