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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 ...
11 years ago
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
11 years ago
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 ...
11 years ago
Philadelphia teachers union endorses Jim Kenney’s mayoral quest
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know it’s only been a week since the words “ ...
11 years ago
Watch Dave Davies help stoop-lady Patsy settle a ‘pay to play’ cannoli bet
In the second of a we-don’t-even-know-how-many-parts “Philly Politics 101” video series, “South Philly stoop lady ...
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Milton Street: I won’t run as independent in Nov. if ejected from Dem. mayoral primary
When Milton Street called a press conference outside the Philadelphia City Commissioner’s Office on Monday, he provided reporters w ...
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