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Brett Mandel: Potty tweeting (ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

Tweet reveals 'leak' in controller's race

Urinal picture prompts Butkovitz supporters to question Mandel's judgment.

Philadelphia Councilman Bill Green speaks out against raising taxes on soft drinks among other things during a City Council session in 2011. This year, however, he´s missed 15 of 16 council budget sessions. (David Maialetti / Staff Photographer)

Who's been MIA at Philly budget talks?

During two months of hearings on the city's budget, some Council members were missing in action.

Harold A. Schaitberger (left) General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters and Local 22 President Bill Gault speak with members of the International Association of Fire Fighters. Members of the union that represents the Philadelphia fire department International Association of Fire Fighters Local 22 and the International Union marched down N. Broad St. to City Hall on Thursday afternoon July 26, 2012 to protest against Mayor Michael Nutter so that he sign the arbitration award for Local 22. ( ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER )

Fire union president Bill Gault loses re-election

It was old versus young in the election for president of the city firefighters union yesterday - and the kids came out on top.

Philadelphia firefighters battle a blaze last year at the Julia de Burgos school on Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. (David Maialetti / Staff Photographer)

Firefighters' union sues city over promotions

The firefighters' union filed a lawsuit Monday to compel the Nutter administration to fill a number of vacancies within the Fire Department and a Common Pleas Court judge ruled yesterday in their favor.

Mayor Nutter has proposed raising taxes on cigarettes and alcoholic drinks served in the city to pay for increasing school costs. (Photo: uofmhealth.org)

Nutter: Tax cigs, booze for schools

Mayor Nutter is proposing a new $2 per pack cigarette tax and a 5 percentage-point increase in the city’s “liquor by the drink” tax...

Inmates sue, claim cleaners poisoned them

Inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility say prison officials denied them protective gear, training and medical treatment and fired those who complained.

Philadelphia Traffic Court at Eighth and Spring Garden Streets was in session Thursday, but some of the judges hearing cases were from out of town. (Yong Kim / Staff Photographer)

Philly Traffic Court one step closer to extinction

The state House's Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to approve two pieces of legislation designed to abolish the court.

John D. McDaniel leave Federal Court in Philadelphia, Pa. on February 14, 2013. McDaniel, former campaign manager to City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal wire fraud charge in the theft of more than $100,000 from Brown´s campaign fund and another political action committee heavily funded by the Laborers Union. ( DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer )

Ex-Brown aide gets 1 year in $100K fraud

John McDaniel, former campaign manager for City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, was sentenced yesterday to one year in federal prison for stealing more than $100,000 from her campaign account.

City Controller Alan Butkovitz has not hid his desire to run for mayor in 2015. (File photograph)

Black Clergy issues endorsements

The Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity gives its blessing to a full slate of candidates in the city's May 21primary election.

Boos for booze

DN Editorial: Taxes on drinks and smokes won't save our schools.

Tweet reveals 'leak' in controller's race

Urinal picture prompts Butkovitz supporters to question Mandel's judgment.

New city Managing Director Richard Negrin, formerly the interim executive director of the BRT, speaks to the media. (File photo: Michael Bryant / Staff Photographer)

Is the city's managing director looking at the top job?

Clout: There's no shortage of potential candidates being floated for the 2015 race for mayor. The latest name: city Managing Director Richard Negrin.

Nutter sets aside firefighters arbitration $

The Nutter administration switched gears and has now set aside $31 million to pay for a portion of the firefighters’ arbitration award.

Mayor Nutter greets Anna Henderson, who´s 58 years his senior, yesterday at an event in City Hall honoring Philadelphia´s oldest citizens. At 113, Henderson is also the sixth-oldest American. (David Maialetti / Staff Photographer)

Nutter honors oldest Philadelphian

Anna Henderson, the sixth-oldest American, has experienced more than a century of change.

Is Philly ready to boost cigarette tax enforcement, too?

PhillyDeals: If Philadelphia really plans to boost alcohol and tobacco taxes, the city had better be ready to spend money on extra tax enforcement, and on busting city residents and visitors who try to buy their smokes outside the city, scholars warn.