Brian Hickey

Unexpected arrival of surveillance cameras in East Falls prompt ‘big-brother’ concerns

The view from Mark Tarsiewicz’s front porch in East Falls recently changed. The telephone pole where Vaux Street meets India ...

8 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)

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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 ...

8 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)

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

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

8 years ago

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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 ...

8 years ago

Santino 'The Dragon Master' Stagliano presented a check for $2,500 to The Center for Autism on Tuesday afternoon. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

‘The Dragon Master’ donates $2,500 to The Center for Autism

The Dragon Master gives back. On Tuesday afternoon, 10-year-old Santino Stagliano posed behind an oversized novelty check (subject ...

8 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)

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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 ...

8 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)

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Kenney joins environmentalists to celebrate bolstered Clean Water Act

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

8 years ago

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

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Inquirer: Williams lauds Kenney campaign, slams Hughes and Nutter

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

8 years ago

Robert Lucas runs Donkey's Place in Camden NJ, which his prizefighting father opened in the 1940s. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Is Philly’s best cheesesteak really made in Camden? [photos + video]

Robert Lucas knows that his family’s 72-year-old eatery in Camden, NJ, will get much attention after Anthony Bourdain’s ̶ ...

8 years ago

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City Council honors 10-year-old autistic artist known as ‘The Dragon Master’

It all started in April when Lisa Stagliano, as many parents are wont to do, posted a photograph of her son on Facebook. It showed ...

8 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)

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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 ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)

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Next mayor should prioritize children, parents during education-funding battles

In an essay for NewsWorks, the executive director of an independent charitable organization providing Catholic-education tuition ...

8 years ago

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