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Clout: Florence Cohen was queried in spy probe 09/19/2008

PHILADELPHIANS remember Florence Cohen as the wife, tireless companion and chief of staff to the late City Councilman David Cohen. But an unknown chapter in Florence Cohen's life emerged into public view earlier this month, when hundreds of pages of grand-jury testimony from the investigation of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were made public.

 

Clout: Election results online, no thanks to the city 09/12/2008

AT LONG LAST, local political mavens can get detailed Philadelphia election results online. But not, unfortunately, on any Web site run by city election officials.

 

Clout: Grateful Dead & Allmans to rock for Obama 09/05/2008

THIS FIRST item is for our readers with gray hair, ponytails, tie-dyed T-shirts and VW minivans: The Dead are getting back together, man! Here in PA! For Obama, man!

 

Clout: Localite Amoore is GOP 'cheerleader' 09/04/2008

RENEE AMOORE, a working-class kid from Haverford who grew up to become a successful businesswoman, calls herself "cheerleader of the Republican Party."

 

Clout: Jailtime governs anarchists' behavior 09/03/2008

YOU'D THINK that the anarchists would be better organized. But, no, they ran amok in St. Paul Monday night, smashing windows at Macy's, trying to rip credentials from the necks of Connecticut delegates, mixing with antiwar protesters and members of the news media and provoking the cops into pepper-spraying and arresting the whole lot - 284 people - innocent and guilty alike.

 

Clout: For McCain, any port in a storm is here 09/02/2008

AS HIS nominating convention was buffeted by storms - Hurricane Gustav and revelations that running mate Gov. Sarah Palin's unmarried teen daughter is pregnant - U.S. Sen. John McCain rode them out in Philadelphia yesterday.

 

Clout: Now it's the GOP's turn to party 08/29/2008

THE DEMOCRATS are floating out of Denver today on an emotional high following Barack Obama's history-making presidential-acceptance speech last night.

 

Clout: From Philly, with love...& for history 08/28/2008

BETTY REID, vice president of a group of Philadelphians who call themselves "Girlfriends for Obama," got this idea in March that if they could get to Denver in August they could be part of history.

 

Clout: Ed has foot-in-mouth relapse 08/27/2008

GOV. RENDELL'S got a biiiiig mouth. Which is why the Pennsylvania news media love him. He'll say anything. But this endearing trait is not admired within a culture that requires lockstep obedience to a cause. A culture that requires speakers to rigidly stay on message - in other words, a political convention.

 

Clout: Gonna party like it's 1968 ... not 08/26/2008

FOR A SECOND DAY, protesters from the group "Re-create '68" demonstrated against the Democrats' decision to cordon them off in a "demonstration zone."

 

Clout: This week, it's one Dem thing after another 08/25/2008

 

Clout: Law tells conventioneers to get the fork out 08/22/2008

 

Clout: The men who would be Vince 08/15/2008

 

Clout: What a friend we had in Jesus, dead at 58 08/08/2008

 

Clout: Revenue boss Tom Wolf eyes guv's job 08/01/2008

 

Clout: Harrisburg gadfly sets reform pageant 07/25/2008

 

Clout: Miss Rain Day: Nice work, if you can get it 07/18/2008

 

Clout: To raise money for Pa., how about we pass the plate? 07/11/2008

 

Gar Joseph | Brady will use the lift if he's elevated to mayor 02/22/2007

 

Gar Joseph | Turn your radio on: Mary Mason's coming back 01/19/2007