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Emergency plan for Philly schools
May 15, 2013
Seen this movie before? I know I have. The Philadelphia school system is broke, in a financial crisis even worst than the last one, and, with the clock counting down on fiscal Armageddon, we have to figure out a rescue plan. More »
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Philly political operative gets a year in jail
May 14, 2013
John McDaniel, the former campaign manager for City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown who was appointed by Mayor Michael Nutter to a job at the airport, got a one-year prison sentence late Tuesday ... More »
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Philly controller candidates go at it one more time
May 10, 2013
The three Democratic candidates for Philadelphia city controller faced off Friday in their final debate of the campaign, an event sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Committee of Seventy. ... More »
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Philadelphia's Republican civil war is over - why it matters
May 9, 2013
Did you even know that for years now an insurgent group of Republicans has waged pitched battles to overthrow the leadership of the Philadelphia party? No, you say, and why should I care? All right,... More »
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Cracking a minority contracting scam; Corbett still in trouble
May 8, 2013
When Philadelphia began requiring minority participation in city contracts in 1982, the enabling law had a sunset provision shutting the program down in 10 years. The idea was that the preference for ... More »
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Philadelphia controller candidates trade accusations
May 2, 2013
You wouldn't expect at this point that a debate among the three Democrats running for Philadelphia city controller would be anything but a knife fight, and the face-off Thursday moderated by Comc... More »
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