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Seventh District council candidate Manny Morales flanked by supporters at Friday's press conference in his Hunting Park Avenue campaign office. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Manny Morales: ‘I didn’t make those Facebook postings’; stays in Council race

No, Philadelphia’s Seventh District City Council race doesn’t technically fall under NinetyNine’s mayoral-cove ...

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Six mayoral candidates (and one policy director) spoke up at Thursday night's Better Mobility Forum. (Dena Driscoll/for NewsWorks)

Better Mobility Forum injects bicycling (and other) issues into the mayoral conversation

Earlier this week, NinetyNine asked the city’s top bicycling advocate ...

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Jim Kenney got some big endorsements this week while Lynne Abraham sits in sixth position on a ballot topped by Tony Williams. (NewsWorks, file art)

Ballot position, challenges and endorsements: NinetyNine’s mayoral campaign-coverage week in review

At high noon each Friday during Philadelphia’s mayoral-primary season, NinetyNine will post a roundup of noteworthy stories fro ...

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The unforgiving responsibility of finding hope for a stranger, peace for oneself

Immigration is a hot topic — and often a hot potato — in our culture, linked to many other potent bugaboos like race, health care, ed ...

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Lynne Abraham, Milton Street and Jim Kenney all factored into NinetyNine's favorite moments of the mayoral race so far. (NewsWorks, file art)

Leading Questions: NinetyNine’s top moments of the mayoral race so far [audio]

As part of WHYY’s “Leading Questions: A City Elections Special” which airs twice today (11 a.m. and 11 p.m.), NinetyNin ...

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FOP President John McNesby (left) said 72 members voted in the mayoral endorsement race; 59 sided with Jim Kenney while only two supported Lynne Abraham. (NewsWorks, file art)

FOP shuns former DA Abraham, endorses Kenney in Phila. mayoral race [updated]

To hear Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 President John McNesby tell it, mayoral candidate and former district attorney Lynne Abraham di ...

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A lot has happened since this February mayoral forum in Parkside. NewsWorks' election special will catch you up on Friday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Programming alert: WHYY’s first election special to air twice on Friday

The first of three “Leading Questions: A City Elections Special” programs about May’s primaries will air on ...

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Tony Williams responds to Jon Stewart’s ‘Philadelphia is awful’ quip

ICYMI: Jon Stewart took another shot at Philly on his television program called “The Daily Show” on Tuesday. ...

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Former City Councilman Frank Rizzo Jr. is seeking a return to office this year. He drew 19th position in a 21-candidate field for Democratic city council at-large. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Clout of the coffee can? Recent Philly elections suggest ballot position not that vital

As the vintage Horn & Hardart’s coffee tin returns to a place where it isn’t ...

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Tim Dowling, acting supervisor of city elections, holds the vintage Horn & Hardart can which will decide ballot position in six city races. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Philly’s ballot-position lottery will get underway in a City Hall courtroom at 11 a.m.

Starting at 11 a.m., the official May 19 Philadelphia primary ballot will start taking shape inside courtroom 676 at City Hall. Th ...

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Nominating petitions of, from left, Milton Street, who is running for mayor; Stephanie Singer, cmapaigning to keep her seat as a Philadelphia commissioner; and Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, seeking re-election, have been challenged. (NewsWorks File Photos)

Street, Blackwell among Philly candidates facing nomination petition challenges

Philadelphia mayoral hopeful Milton Street is among those now at risk of being knocked off the May primary ballot after Tuesday’s d ...

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KieranTimberlake offices, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

A workspace that tracks the Millennial creative process

“[Millennials] are a generation of workers that have learned to work in different kinds of spaces through their education and life ...

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The answers in today's quotes quiz, with City Hall as a backdrop. (NewsWorks, photo illustration)

NinetyNine’s Mayoral-Race Quotes-of-the-Day Quiz Vol. 2

There is quite a bit to examine nine Tuesdays before voters go to the mayoral-primary polls. So much, in fact, that we here at Nin ...

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The Vision Zero Initiative has been adopted in New York City and San Francisco. The Bicycle Coalition hopes it comes to Philly soon. (Image courtesy of Vision Zero's website)

Ask the mayoral candidates: How will you implement the ‘Vision Zero’ initiative?

As part of a regular series leading up to Philadelphia’s May 19 mayoral primaries, NewsWorks will pose various questions to the ...

7 years ago

Jim Kenney at a rally with Jerry Jordan, president of Philadelphia Federation of Teachers during the 2015 mayor's race. (Bas Slabbers for WHYY)

Philadelphia teachers union endorses Jim Kenney’s mayoral quest

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know it’s only been a week since the words “ ...

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