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 ...

9 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 ...

9 years ago

Community

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 ...

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

Community

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 ...

9 years ago

Community

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 ...

9 years ago

Community

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

Much was made of ...

9 years ago

Community

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, ...

9 years ago

Community

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 ...

9 years ago

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 ...

9 years ago

Community

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 ...

9 years ago

Community

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 ...

9 years ago

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