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When I began working in Philadelphia years ago, one of the first people I met was a young musician named Jim Stephens. He was open, earne ...

John Dougherty, the powerful business manager of the electricians local, was elusive on the campaign trail, exerting his influence behind ...

For several minutes on Wednesday morning, former mayors Wilson Goode and Ed Rendell, current mayor Michael Nutter and mayoral aspirant Ji ...

In an essay for NewsWorks, the executive director of an independent charitable organization providing Catholic-education tuition ...

Michael Nutter, the 98th and current mayor of Philadelphia, appeared on Tuesday’s Radio Times with host Marty Moss-Coane. ...

Milton Street finished a distant last in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, but he certainly did not seem to care about that whe ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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