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 Jim Kenney prepares to deliver his victory speech after winning the Democratic mayoral primary on May 19. (Stephanie Aaronson/via The Next Mayor Partnership)

How ‘The Blues Brothers’ movie helps explain Jim Kenney’s mayoral-primary win

Three weeks after Jim Kenney’s overwhelming victory in the Democratic mayoral primary, the Inquirer‘s Chris Hepp dou ...

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 Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill greet mourners during the viewing for former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden inside St. Anthony of Padua in Wilmington, Del., on Friday, June 5, 2015. Biden, the eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, died of brain cancer Saturday at age 46. (William Bretzger/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP, Pool)

Thousands of mourners say goodbye to Beau Biden at public viewing in Wilmington [VIDEO]

Standing at the front of the line outside Wilmington’s St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church on Friday morning, Lois Lipton Parker c ...

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 Galit Carmely holds court at her Old City boutique My Little Redemption. (Images courtesy of Lauren Elena McGrath)

No matter how you dress it up, your ‘little redemption’ comes from within

If you wander Old City north of Market Street, you pass through a rich mix of charming boutiques, boarded storefronts plastered with perm ...

10 years ago

 Laughs were had by all when Nelson Diaz asked whether Jim Kenney had his microphone intentionally turned off at a primary-race mayoral forum. (Tracie Van Auken/for NewsWorks)

Diaz spokesman offers six ideas that Jim Kenney should steal

Our good friends over at Plan Philly ran a post today in which Barry Caro, the communications and policy director for Nelson Dia ...

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New Jersey

Democrat Barbara Buono accused of violating campaign-finance rules in her race against Gov Christie

A year and a half after her gubernatorial bid was crushed by Gov. Chris Christie’s reelection juggernaut, former state senator Barbara ...

10 years ago

 Doug Oliver garnered much support in a political website's push to find someone to run against U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah next year. (NewsWorks/file art)

Despite online push, Oliver has no definitive plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Fattah

Crowdpac, a political-technology startup site which ...

10 years ago

Jones: Is Gov. Wolf following Jim Kenney’s lead on marijuana decriminalization?

Over on The Philadelphia Experiment, Solomon Jones considers whether Gov. Tom Wolf saying he believes marijuana should be decrim ...

10 years ago

 Mayor Michael Nutter, mayoral candidate Jim Kenney and city Executive Director Eva Gladstein (R-L) spoke at Tuesday morning's early childhood-education plan launch. (Stephanie Aaronson/via The Next Mayor partnership)

Nutter, Kenney join education leaders to unveil ‘early childhood-learning plan’ [updated]

In a Children’s Village classroom packed to the hilt with likeminded adult ...

10 years ago

 Jim Kenney speaks at Monday's press conference held on a Fairmount Water Works gazebo to celebrate the restoration of Clean Water Act protections. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Kenney joins environmentalists to celebrate bolstered Clean Water Act

On a gazebo overlooking the Fairmount Dam, mayoral candidate Jim ...

10 years ago

 Anthony Hardy Williams and his wife watched mayoral-primary results with a small party of friends. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Inquirer: Williams lauds Kenney campaign, slams Hughes and Nutter

During a recent 75-minute interview at University City’s Pod restaurant, ...

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You Are What You Read

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 A rendering of Cesar Viveros' mural to honor the pope's visit to Philadelphia.
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Philly region preparing for holy sea of visitors when Pope Francis arrives

Dozens of Catholic school students in uniform Thursday morning helped unveil plans for a mural to commemorate this fall’s papal vis ...

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 Jim Stephens’ Full Tilt Boogie Band (Image courtesy of Athena Music)

Using music to connect victims of abuse to support resources

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 ...

10 years ago

 Labor leader John Dougherty is part of a coalition calling on the Pennsylvania legislature to boost funding for solar energy. (Katie Colaneri/WHYY)

Johnny Doc talks ‘true believers,’ the labor ‘do tank’ that drove Kenney (and solar energy)

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

10 years ago

 Former Mayor Wilson Goode congratulated Jim Kenney on his mayoral-primary victory before Wednesday morning's event in City Hall. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

A mayoral cavalcade honors literacy ‘champion’ at City Hall ceremony

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

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