2 New Judges Celebrate Their Robing
Judges newly elected to Common Pleas and Municipal Courts mark their accession to the bench with a robing ceremony in City Hall, followed by a reception for their friends. The attendees demonstrate the new jurists’ support by legal, political and civic leaders. Send article as PDF
STATE SEN. John Kane and State Rep. Mary Isaacson met on a cold day to discuss House-Senate issues in the warmth of the Famous Deli on South 4th Street. John Kane was business manager of Local 690 Plumbers Union for many years; he now represents a Delaware County district. Isaacson’s appeal to millennial and older […]
Pennsylvania’s newly complicated, shortened, two-stage petition drives for the spring primary have kept all candidates high and low in a state of campaign confusion. The city’s communities have leapt into the breach to provide opportunities for them to meet voters and recruit signatures. Send article as PDF
Ready to step out in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on the Sunday preceding were, from L, Jimmy Harrity with Marnie Aument-Loughrey, Councilmember David Oh and State Sen. Sharif Street. Harrity is executive director of Democratic City Committee. Photo courtesy of Harrity’s Facebook Page Send article as PDF
Loyal veterans of Philadelphia’s organized labor and political scenes gathered at a VIP get-together at Laborers’ District Council to honor former Building Trades Council head John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty as he cedes his offices. This warm-up preceded a larger fundraiser for Dougherty’s chronically ill wife at nearby Vie restaurant. Send article as PDF
STATE REP. Jordan Harris joined colleague Joanna McClinton at Bartram’s Garden to present a check for a $2.625 million RACP grant that the two supported. This funding will go towards building a new ecosystems education center and the world’s first freshwater-mussel hatchery to help improve water quality in local waterways. It constitutes a major investment […]
CITY COMMISSION Chair Lisa Deeley was joined by her colleague Seth Bluestein, R; City Council President Darrell Clarke; and Rev. Malcolm T. Byrd, a seasoned activist in both clerical work and City government, currently serving on the Governor’s Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, beside the statue of civil-rights crusader Octavius Catto. In the light […]
Democratic 51st Ward Leader Greg Benjamin, C, rallied supporters at Cedar Park to launch his primary campaign for State representative, hoping to unseat State Rep. Rick Krajewski. Benjamin and Krajewski were two of four contestants for the 188th House District, which runs from Penn and Drexel into the Cobbs Creek and Kingsessing neighborhoods of West […]
ON THE EVE of the 49th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson, R, stood with Rep. Mary Isaacson, Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania and two Democratic legislative challengers to advocate for women’s health and reproductive rights. 2022 is expected to host a major battleground in the fall election as statewide Republicans gear up […]
The new American Chinese United Association rang in the New Year at their new American-Chinese Museum located at 7345-47 Oxford Avenue. They were joined, top C, by State Reps. Jared Solomon and Joe Hohenstein; Councilmember David Oh and Bishop Robert Shine. Jason Lam of ACUA and Steven Zhu of the museum are seated. Photo courtesy […]
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