Brian Hickey

Faith leaders unable to host services on papal Sunday plan City Hall protest [UPDATED]

A group of faith leaders uniting as the Greater Philadelphia Fellowship of Christian Churches plans to loudly decry security measures tha ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia (finally) honors legendary non-fictional boxer Smokin’ Joe Frazier with a statue

Editor’s note: Now that the city has done right by Smokin’ Joe Frazier, who should be immortalized in ...

8 years ago

On Wednesday, Republican mayoral candidate Melissa Murray Bailey called on City Council 'to defund the salary' of three people involved in the DA's office email scandal. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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Council members offended by Porngate issue, but don’t prioritize call for action

A day after Republican mayoral candidate Melissa Murray Bailey called on City Council to hold he ...

8 years ago

Delvin Barnes (right) pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping Carlesha Freeland-Gaither off a Germantown street in Nov. 2014. (NewsWorks, file art)

Carlesha’s abductor pleads guilty to kidnapping, faces 35 years in prison

Delvin Barnes, the 38-year-old man who ...

8 years ago

Republican mayoral candidate Melissa Murray Bailey called on City Council 'to defund the salary' of three people involved in the DA's office email scandal. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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Bailey calls for Council hearings into DA’s office porn-email scandal

Melissa Murray Bailey, the Republican candidate in Philadelphia’s mayoral race, called on City Council “to have the courage t ...

8 years ago

Margaret Downey, founder and president of the Freethought Society, vows to make sure taxpayers are reimbursed for expenses incurred during Pope Francis' visit. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

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Non-believers: Pope Francis is sorta cool, but the visit is a logistical nightmare

When Pope Francis arrives in Philadelphia later this month, officials expect more than a million people to flock to Center City for, amon ...

8 years ago

Jim Kenney sported casual wear at Monday's Labor Day picnic in Northwest Philadelphia. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

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Kenney, Northwest Philly leaders who backed him mingle at Labor Day picnic

Much was made of ...

8 years ago

The Democratic candidates in May's mayoral election collectively spent a lot of money. (NewsWorks/file art)

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May’s mayoral primary ‘the most expensive election ever in the city’

With Labor Day (and, unofficially, summer) behind us, attention should soon return to Philadelphia’s mayoral race. You know, ...

8 years ago

Mayoral candidate Jim Foster (Ind.) says his campaign will mimic 'one of the most successful and unexpected reversals of fortune in American political history.' (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

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Jim Foster channels Truman and the fifties in his 2015 mayoral campaign

When community newspaper publisher James Foster submitted more than 3,000 signatures to ...

8 years ago

The former Mt. McKinley seen on a rare sunny day, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, in Denali National Park, Alaska. (Becky Bohrer/AP Photo)

Would local governors make a Mt. McKinley out of area hills?

When President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he was changing/restoring the name of an Alaska mountain that honored an assassinated O ...

8 years ago

Osborne Hart of the Socialist Workers Party is running for mayor of Philadelphia.(Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)

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A socialist Walmart employee explains why he’s running for Philly mayor

Set aside those preconceived notions that November’s mayoral-election results were finalized in May, if only for the time it takes ...

8 years ago

Facebook posts from a Melissa Murray Bailey donor caught the negative attention of some activist groups in Philadelphia. (Images via Facebook)

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Liberty City, Arab American Institute cite Facebook posts in call for Bailey to return donation [UPDATED]

Both the Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club and the Arab American Institute issued statements on Wednesday calling on Republican mayoral c ...

8 years ago

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