BY RORY McGLASSON/ The family of a slain Philadelphia police officer are still waiting on a report from the State Board of Probation & Parole about his murder. It’s been 68 days since police officer Moses Walker, Jr. was slain by an alleged killer who was on “house arrest†– and allegedly was unmonitored by parole […]
BY TONY WEST/ Bitter dissent has been brewing among the employees and board members of the Southwest Community Development Corp. for the last year over that agency’s management practices. Now it has spilled into the community, even as community activists have stormed its board meetings to demand the opening of its books and the removal of […]
BY BONNIE SQUIRES You know someone very important has died when the President of the United States, President Obama, issues a declaration announcing all American flags to be flown at half-staff on all government properties, military bases, embassies, etc., in the nation and around the world, to salute Senator Arlen Specter on […]
BY MARIA MERLINO City Council President Darrell Clarke was a special guest at a Vice Presidential debate watch party in South Philadelphia. Councilman Clarke joined council colleagues Kenyatta Johnson and Bobby Henon at a Vice Presidential Debate party hosted by electricians union boss John Dougherty at Doc’s Union Pub, 2nd and Mifflin Streets. A standing […]
Shortly after the first presidential debate started, the atmosphere turned electric at Cavanaugh’s Restaurant in University City, where three dozen Republican activists from across Philadelphia were cheering on their challenger candidate Mitt Romney. By the time the debate ended, 90 minutes later, they were jubilant, sensing their man had scored a solid victory over President […]
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Closeup pictures of President Bill Clinton are hard to come by. Our Contributing Editor Bonnie Squires pulled off this coup – but it was a struggle. She even had her camera confiscated for a while – despite the fact she was a paid attendee at Democrat Attorney General aspirant Kathleen Kane’s gala fundraiser at the […]
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