Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News: Politics
- Reports of flawed records and improper sales trigger call for investigation of city land deals
Wednesday - 12/05/2018 - 03:55 PMThe Philadelphia Coalition for Affordable Communities is calling on City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart to investigate public land sales, following Inquirer and Daily News reports about flaws in the system.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'My voice went unheard': N.J. Gov. Murphy staffer testifies campaign, administration ignored rape allegation
Tuesday - 12/04/2018 - 02:09 PM"I had access to people in the highest positions of power in the State of New Jersey," Katie Brennan, chief of staff for the state's housing agency, said at a legislative hearing in Trenton.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- One year, eight new gun-control laws in New Jersey
Tuesday - 12/04/2018 - 05:23 AMIn his first year, Gov. Murphy looked to strengthen the state's gun laws and its reputation as a gun-control leader.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - George H.W. Bush funeral cortege en route to U.S. Capitol
Monday - 12/03/2018 - 04:21 PMFormer President George H. W. Bush became the 32d person to lie in state beneath the Capitol rotunda as part of a memorial service that elicited memories of a less divisive era in American politics, when even rivals showed respect - and received respect - from their opponents.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bob Brady aide Smukler found guilty on 9 of 11 counts in campaign finance case involving $90K payoff of congressman's rival
Monday - 12/03/2018 - 02:15 PMThe verdict came after a three-week trial and months of legal wrangling between Smukler - a pugnacious political brawler - and prosecutors who described him as a "confident and cocky" operative who hoped to used his skills at spin and manipulation to escape his reckoning in court.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pennsylvania lawmakers, judges, others get pay raises - because it's that time of the year
Sunday - 12/02/2018 - 01:13 PMTheir annual salaries go up automatically. Too bad their governing skills don't do the same.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pres. George H.W. Bush taught me how to care about all people, even those I disagree with | Perspective
Saturday - 12/01/2018 - 09:33 AMHis example of service inspired me and his dedication to our nation's veterans and wounded warriors changed my life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No verdict yet for top Bob Brady aide in campaign finance case
Friday - 11/30/2018 - 05:50 PMThe federal jury weighing the fate of Ken Smukler, U.S. Rep. Bob Brady's top political strategist, concluded its first full day of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pennsylvania to receive $10M from Bloomberg Philanthropies to fight opioid crisis
Friday - 11/30/2018 - 12:30 PMThe announcement by former New York mayor and Bloomberg Philanthropies founder Michael Bloomberg follows reports that the life expectancy rate in the U.S. has declined for the last three years due to a record number of deaths caused by drug and opioid overdoses.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pa.'s pols again flock to NYC for annual weekend bash
Thursday - 11/29/2018 - 07:15 PMFor many of the established or aspiring state's political class, the annual trek to New York - ironically called Pennsylvania Society - is all about seeing and being seen.
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- Gov. Wolf's redistricting reform v. political reality | John Baer
Tuesday - 12/04/2018 - 04:42 PMA new effort to fight Pennsylvania's gerrymandering is already meeting with partisan opposition.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Report: Phila. School District lost $62 million in revenue in 2017 to tax abatements
Tuesday - 12/04/2018 - 01:11 PMTax abatements and other tax breaks cost the School District of Philadelphia $62 million in 2017, according to a study released Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cherry Hill man sentenced for illegally selling at least 100 handguns
Monday - 12/03/2018 - 07:15 PMA Cherry Hill man was sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role in illegally acquiring and selling dozens of handguns to drug dealers and others.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pa. Supreme Court: Names of Catholic clergy will remain shielded
Monday - 12/03/2018 - 04:24 PMIn its opinion, the high court agreed with a group of former and current clergy members that passages in a state grand report on clergy sexual abuse, released earlier this year, are either inaccurate or unfairly harm their reputations
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - George H.W. Bush was a family man and war hero who gave America its horribly destructive politics | Will Bunch
Sunday - 12/02/2018 - 02:57 PMPart of George H.W. Bush's legacy is the dirty, racially charged 1988 campaign that made his president.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - At Pennsylvania Society, talk of bipartisanship, brotherhood … and bacon
Saturday - 12/01/2018 - 06:43 PMFor the second year in a row, Pennsylvania's political elite got dolled up and came to Manhattan for the state's biggest annual bash.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - More 'errors' found in records of city land sales to Point Breeze developer
Friday - 11/30/2018 - 07:18 PMCity officials recently blamed a clerical error, in part, for allowing a friend of Councilman Kenyatta Johnson to secure two city-owned lots this summer without bidding and then flip them for a cool $165,000 profit.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Meet Pennsylvania's new House leader, straight outta' Peach Bottom, Lancaster County
Friday - 11/30/2018 - 04:10 PMBryan Cutler will lead a smaller but more conservative GOP majority than his predecessor. He tells us what Philadelphia and its suburbs might expect in the new legislative session.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Amid change in Congress, Philly's Brendan Boyle, Dwight Evans vie for power
Friday - 11/30/2018 - 05:17 AMPhiladelphia is about to see a changing of the guard in Congress - and Reps. Brendan Boyle and Dwight Evans are each vying for influence. Only one is likely to get it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two City Council members are iffy on seeking reelection while the other 15 are all in | Clout
Thursday - 11/29/2018 - 07:24 PMClout polls Philly City Council members on reelection plans, recounts the wire former Municipal Court Judge Jimmie Moore wore to record former Mayor W. Wilson Goode Jr., and talks to campaign commercial pro Saul Shorr about shutting down his firm.
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- James F. Kenney, Sr., Philly firefighter and mayor's father, dies at 83
Tuesday - 12/04/2018 - 06:33 PMThe elder Mr. Kenney worked as a Philadelphia firefighter for 22 years before retiring in 1980. "He worked for all of Philadelphia's families," the mayor once said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Philly state lawmaker convicted of bribery refusing to resign
Tuesday - 12/04/2018 - 10:56 AMState Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown has yet to leave office even though the state constitution says she can no longer serve.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two dead, two injured in separate shootings in Philly
Monday - 12/03/2018 - 10:16 PMTwo people were killed and two were injured in two separate shootings Monday night.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Phila. Councilman Allan Domb's lonely fight to kill DROP
Monday - 12/03/2018 - 01:33 PMCouncilman Allan Domb introduced legislation in September to eliminate the controversial pension perk known as DROP for new non-unionized employees. But with elections coming up for all 17 council members, Domb has been unable to garner support for his bill or even get a public hearing on the bill.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 10 cartoons honoring George H.W. Bush's memory | Opinion
Monday - 12/03/2018 - 11:05 AMPresident George H.W. Bush died on Friday at age 94.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Photos: Remembering George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the U.S.
Saturday - 12/01/2018 - 09:15 AMA look back in photos at the life of George H.W. Bush, who died late Friday at the age of 94.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - To combat gerrymandering, N.J. Democrats propose drawing maps to entrench their power
Friday - 11/30/2018 - 05:51 PMAcross the country, states are trying to remove partisanship from redistricting, with Democratic support. New Jersey Democrats are moving in the opposite direction.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - N.J. pols should let voters pick their own representatives | Editorial
Friday - 11/30/2018 - 03:53 PMFundamentally, redistricting shouldn't even be about which political faction has the most power. Letting politicians control the process is like letting children lock the adults out of a candy store.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pa. Rep. Vanessa Brown gets probation for bribery in Philly sting case
Friday - 11/30/2018 - 11:20 AMBrown, 52, who has represented portions of West Philadelphia for almost a decade, must also resign from the state House, triggering an eventual election for her seat.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In 1970s, workers at this GM plant tried to re-invent the American Dream. Instead, they watched it fade away | Will Bunch
Thursday - 11/29/2018 - 02:25 PMWorkers at Ohio GM plant rebelled against alienation on the job - then saw their jobs vanish instead.
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