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What Katy Perry song best represents each Philly mayoral candidate?
On Sunday, the Seattle Seahawks will attempt to defend their NFL championship versus the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX. You mig ...
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A daily reboot keeps this Philly teacher ‘there for today’ with his students
Teaching is a day-long journey that requires bucketfuls of energy. I talked recently to a Philadelphia public school teacher who relies o ...
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Ask the mayoral candidates: How would you solve Philadelphia’s kindergarten conundrum?
As part of a regular series leading up to Philadelphia’s May 19 mayoral primaries, NewsWorks will pose a question of the declar ...
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Milton Street: Don’t you dare call me a felon
As mayoral-campaign problems go, the one that has T. Milton Street, Sr., angry is uniquely Miltonian. Namely, Street can’t q ...
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Today in ‘Will Councilman Jim Kenney run for mayor?’ news: Yes he will?!
It all started with a Tweet that Dave Davies sent out while we were all still coming to grips with the blizzard that wasn’t. ...
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Doug Oliver lifts the veil on City Hall’s winter storm-prep messaging
As many Philadelphians exercised Monday’s early-workplace parole as “Juno” closed in, NinetyNine caught up with mayoral ...
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What would YOU ask Philadelphia’s mayoral candidates?
ICYMI on the page or in your ear, WHYY’s news veep Chris Satullo asked everybody a question this morning: “ ...
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The mayoral-campaign weekend that was
When the Philadelphia political world entered the weekend, most ever ...
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Lynne Abraham on why she’s running, personal responsibility, gender, race and more
On Tuesday morning, NinetyNine sat down with mayoral candidate Lynne Abraham in a 31st-floor Liberty Place conference room for a chat abo ...
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Alba Martinez does ‘not have plans to run for Mayor in 2015’
Remember this morning when recently withdrawn mayoral candidate Ken Trujillo was said to be “ ...
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So, about that ‘snoozefest’ of a Philly mayoral race …
I’d like to pretend we here at NewsWorks knew that NinetyNine’s launch day would be a seminal moment in Philadelphia ...
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How teamwork helps you be more fully yourself
We all know how good it can feel to have a colleague we can connect with, someone we can relate to, both within the scope of the work and ...
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Citing ‘family matters,’ Ken Trujillo withdraws from Philadelphia mayoral race
When I met with Ken Trujillo las ...
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Doug Oliver wants Philadelphians to face harsh facts and make tough choices when it comes to education spending. Having just stepp ...
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And then there were (officially) four: Diaz launches Philly mayoral campaign
The ubiquity of “Philly’s mayoral primary is so boring” articles/Tweets/Facebook updates is such that the narr ...
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