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Dave Davies has covered government and politics in Philadelphia for the past twenty years. He is senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, where he has worked since 1990. He is also a fill-in host for National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and WHYY's Radio Times. Before joining the Daily News, Dave was city hall bureau chief for KYW News Radio, and city hall correspondent for WHYY-FM. He was also a founding editor of Community Focus, a weekly newspaper in Philadelphia's Kensington and Port Richmond areas. He's also worked as a teacher, a cab driver and a welder. He was born and raised in Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas in 1975. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marna Sternbach. They have two grown children.
 
He deflects a dart of a query on roots of economic disaster
Posted 07/01/2008
IF YOU HAD a few minutes with Republican presidential candidate John McCain, what would you ask him? I confronted this dilemma when his campaign offered me half an hour with him yesterday on his campaign bus, "The Straight Talk Express," along with four other print reporters - "just the four of you and him having a conversation," campaign spokesman Paul Lindsay said.
 
Obama defends his patriotism
 
A NEW CALL TO THE POWER OF CITIES
 
Complete coverage of politics
Posted 06/20/2008
SOME YEARS back, I lived next door to a crackhead. He owned the house adjoining mine in Germantown. After he ripped off his wife's cash, sold his kids' toys and drove the family out, there were periods when he was gone for months. The deteriorating house was occupied by a series of squatters, some of whom brought cockroaches and pit bulls.
 
Jill Porter: Whatever they are, Francisville 4 have same rights we all do
TONIGHT Mayor Nutter will put on a nice suit and welcome guests to a $1,000-a-head cocktail party at the Franklin Institute to raise money for his campaign fund, which reported $1.1 million on hand in January. Does he really need to start raising money for his re-election now?
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