Brian Hickey

Radio Times: Nutter talks about last week’s primary and his final months as mayor [audio]

Michael Nutter, the 98th and current mayor of Philadelphia, appeared on Tuesday’s Radio Times with host Marty Moss-Coane. ...

8 years ago

Milton Street said his sixth-place finish is a victory since Anthony Hardy Williams didn't finish first. (NewsWorks, file art)

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Milton Street: I only ran for mayor so Tony Williams wouldn’t win

Milton Street finished a distant last in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, but he certainly did not seem to care about that whe ...

8 years ago

Pa. Game Commission checks on four peregrine falcon chicks atop City Hall [video + photos]

His bandaged left arm in a sling, Kevin Vaughan looked out a 15th-floor City Hall window on Friday morning and saw an agitated peregrine ...

8 years ago

Jim Kenney celebrates his landslide victory in Tuesday's Democratic-mayoral primary. (Stephanie Aaronson/via The Next Mayor partnership)

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Kenney wins mayoral primary, dines with GOP candidate: NinetyNine’s week in review

At high noon each Friday during Philadelphia’s mayoral-primary season, NinetyNine will post a roundup of noteworthy stories from th ...

8 years ago

Mayor Michael Nutter hosted Democratic-primary winner Jim Kenney at his City Hall office for a series of meetings on Thursday. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

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Mayor Nutter: Jim Kenney ‘will run this city well and make this city proud’

After fielding questions from the press several steps away from the front door to the mayor’s office, its current occupant and his ...

8 years ago

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Mayoral candidates Jim Kenney and Melissa Murray Bailey choose Broad Street Ministry over the Palm

Maybe it was political symbolism. Maybe it was a sign of a respectable mayoral-campaign to come. Whatever it was that led Philadel ...

8 years ago

Jim Kenney accepts the Democratic Mayoral nomination Tuesday night. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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Kenney scores resounding victory; Council will get new faces [video]

Jim Kenney, who started his Philadelphia mayoral campaign late, wrapped up a resounding victory amazingly early on Tuesday night. ...

8 years ago

Voters across the region will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote (WHYY, file)

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9 things to know about before you head to the polls on Tuesday

On Tuesday, voters — translation: you, if you’re registered to vote in Philadelphia — will head to the polls to select, among o ...

8 years ago

A mash-up of Quotes Quiz photoshops and candidate portraits, lovingly created by (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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9 top quotes from NinetyNine’s weekly quotes quizzes

Over the course of the past several months, NinetyNine has posted a “Mayoral Race Quotes-of-the-Day Quiz” on varying days of ...

8 years ago

At an April mayoral debate held at St. Joseph's University, Nelson Diaz made a memorable quip about legalizing marijuana. (Stephanie Aaronson/via The Next Mayor partnership)

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9 memorable moments from Philly’s mayoral debates and forums

Since speaking before the Business Association of West Parkside on Feb. 19, the six Democratic candidates embarked on a campaign schedule ...

8 years ago

During a February interview with NinetyNine, Mayor Michael Nutter said it's important to consider his potential successors in the context of unexpected-event response, akin to last week's train derailment. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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9 interviews with former and aspiring Philadelphia mayors

Over the course of the primary season, NinetyNine spoke one-on-one with each of the candidates, as well as a former and current mayor. ...

8 years ago

Mayoral candidates Milton Street, Jim Kenney and Doug Oliver at Quizzo night in East Falls. (NewsWorks, file art)

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9 Quizzo questions about Philly’s mayoral candidates

Remember how Doug O ...

8 years ago

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