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A trial by fireworks for managing director - 07/09/2007

It's been a rough two weeks for new Managing Director Loree Jones. Last week, she irritated thousands of Fourth of July revelers by telling them to leave the Benjamin Franklin Parkway when an electrical storm threatened - then proceeding with the much-awaited fireworks show a half hour later. By that time, however, almost every one of the thousands who had braved a downpour that drenched the festivities on the Parkway had left.

 

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Street likely to endorse Clinton during her visit here today - 07/02/2007

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.) continues to dominate national polls that gauge voter preference among Democratic presidential candidates – though she has work to do in Iowa – and her campaign is now putting the hammer down for endorsements.

 

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Does Knox's knockout reduce campaign cap? - 06/25/2007

When Tom Knox spent millions of his own money to finance his campaign in last month's mayoral primary, a city law was triggered that automatically doubled how much his four rivals could raise.

 

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'Pro-choice' stand put Council in a hard place - 06/18/2007

Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown didn't make any new friends among her colleagues when she forced them to take a stand on abortion rights two weeks ago as she offered a purely symbolic resolution declaring Philadelphia a "pro-choice city."

 

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Trash haulers as political plunderers? Not their bag - 03/26/2007

In the junkyard-dog realm of South Philadelphia politics, paranoia is just self-preservation. So it probably made sense to think dirty tricks were afoot when workers for a charity linked to State Sen. Vincent Fumo took trash bags from curbside at the homes of John Dougherty, business manager of electricians' Local 98, and the union's president, Harry Foy, on the morning of March 16.

Echoes of the past in Brady's present - 01/29/2007

Inquirer Staff

When Bob Brady announced his mayoral candidacy on Thursday by declaring that "help is on the way," veterans of past Democratic campaigns may have felt a sense of deja vu. The line was the key refrain of John Kerry's 2004 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention and a constant theme in the campaign that followed.

 

Some clown breaks into Street's Wikipedia page - 01/22/2007

Another reason not to trust Wikipedia, and this one's a doozy. According to the online encyclopedia - which has a well-earned checkered reputation as both an everyman's Britannica and a site where bias, slander and outright untruths reign - Mayor Street once played Bozo the Clown.