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 Jim Kenney celebrates his landslide victory in Tuesday's Democratic-mayoral primary. (Stephanie Aaronson/via The Next Mayor partnership)

Kenney wins mayoral primary, dines with GOP candidate: NinetyNine’s week in review

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

10 years ago

 Mayor Michael Nutter hosted Democratic-primary winner Jim Kenney at his City Hall office for a series of meetings on Thursday. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Mayor Nutter: Jim Kenney ‘will run this city well and make this city proud’

After fielding questions from the press several steps away from the front door to the mayor’s office, its current occupant and his ...

10 years ago

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The dual paths of insider and outsider can lead to insight, strength

Professor Elijah Anderson, the urban ethnographer and Yale faculty who ...

10 years ago

Mayoral candidates Jim Kenney and Melissa Murray Bailey choose Broad Street Ministry over the Palm

Maybe it was political symbolism. Maybe it was a sign of a respectable mayoral-campaign to come. Whatever it was that led Philadel ...

10 years ago

 Jim Kenney accepts the Democratic Mayoral nomination Tuesday night. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Kenney scores resounding victory; Council will get new faces [video]

Jim Kenney, who started his Philadelphia mayoral campaign late, wrapped up a resounding victory amazingly early on Tuesday night. ...

10 years ago

Kenney wins Dems’ mayoral nod; upsets brewing in Council at-large race [updated]

It’s primary day in Pennsylvania, and voters are heading to the polls. Check back here throughout the day for NewsWorks’ upda ...

10 years ago

Voting at the GW Childs Elementary polling place in South Philadelphia on Primary Day 2015. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)

Candidates are out and about as voters trickle into the polls [updated]

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10 years ago

Voters across the region will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote (WHYY, file)

9 things to know about before you head to the polls on Tuesday

On Tuesday, voters — translation: you, if you’re registered to vote in Philadelphia — will head to the polls to select, among o ...

10 years ago

 A mash-up of Quotes Quiz photoshops and candidate portraits, lovingly created by (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

9 top quotes from NinetyNine’s weekly quotes quizzes

Over the course of the past several months, NinetyNine has posted a “Mayoral Race Quotes-of-the-Day Quiz” on varying days of ...

10 years ago

 At an April mayoral debate held at St. Joseph's University, Nelson Diaz made a memorable quip about legalizing marijuana. (Stephanie Aaronson/via The Next Mayor partnership)

9 memorable moments from Philly’s mayoral debates and forums

Since speaking before the Business Association of West Parkside on Feb. 19, the six Democratic candidates embarked on a campaign schedule ...

10 years ago

 During a February interview with NinetyNine, Mayor Michael Nutter said it's important to consider his potential successors in the context of unexpected-event response, akin to last week's train derailment. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

9 interviews with former and aspiring Philadelphia mayors

Over the course of the primary season, NinetyNine spoke one-on-one with each of the candidates, as well as a former and current mayor. ...

10 years ago

 Mayoral candidates Milton Street, Jim Kenney and Doug Oliver at Quizzo night in East Falls. (NewsWorks, file art)

9 Quizzo questions about Philly’s mayoral candidates

Remember how Doug O ...

10 years ago

 State Rep. Dwight Evans applauds as mayoral candidate Jim Kenney accepts the endorsement of a wide swath of Northwest Philadelphia's political leadership. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

9 noteworthy endorsements from the Philadelphia mayoral race

Over the course of the mayoral-primary campaign, NinetyNine kept track of which candidate garnered support from various groups, people an ...

10 years ago

 For the past five months, six candidates have vied for the right to set up offices on the second floor of City Hall. (NewsWorks, file art)

9 top stories from NinetyNine’s mayoral-primary coverage

Over the course of the past several months, we have written a lot of stories about the campaign, the candidates and related happenings on ...

10 years ago

 Way back in February, the six Democratic mayoral candidates attended the first forum of the campaign, in Parkside. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

(Not) asked and answered: Jim Kenney wonders what foes would do differently if they could

In the waning days of the mayoral-primary season, NinetyNine is reaching out to the six Democratic candidates to pose a question about, w ...

10 years ago

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