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Inside Par Funding: The Wild $550 Million Financial Scandal That Rocked Philly and the Main Line
The lure was a free dinner and the promise of returns as high as 14 percent. The key pitch came from Joe LaForte, a two-time […]
Wilmington Is Becoming the It City Next Door
The bar is three or even four people deep, making it tough to get through the door. Inside, millennials and boomers alike are sipping fancy […]
Emanuel Freeman: The Man Who Duped City Hall
“Miss Rogers, there’s flies, there’s flies.” “What? What are you talking about?” Sherri Rogers (not her real name) figured the girl in the back of […]
The Last Mouthpiece
YOUR EYE LEAPS to it the instant you enter the room. You’re tempted to blink hard, just to be sure it’s really there. But it […]
The Brilliant Professor Ward
As if the rigors of a 10-hour direct flight from Brazil aren’t enough to make a man irritable, it’s not even eight in the morning, […]
Ed Rendell Still Has a Few Things to Say
I begin to get, more than anything, worried. I’ve been waiting outside Ed Rendell’s small stone Tudor in East Falls for him to answer the […]
The Rise and Fall of Kathleen Kane
Ruth Lenahan remembers the feeling she had when she sat down with her friend Kathleen Kane in a political operative’s office in downtown Scranton back […]
Meet the New Doc. Same as the Old Doc?
I’m searching for the good Johnny Doc, the one he wants me to find. The new one. And here he is, in plain sight, on […]
The Kingdom and the Power of Johnny Doc
Johnny Doc is as literal as they come. He’s a union boss, with a union boss’s brick-and-mortar vocab. His speeches are latticed with I-beams of […]
The Fight for the Future of Philadelphia’s Newspapers
The meeting is lore, now: a story about a table for two that likely caused all South Jersey to wobble, ever so slightly, on its […]
Press Lord 2.0
THEY HAD LET the place go to hell. Tierney could see it the first day he walked in the door. In the lobby alone, the […]
The Lost Accord
IT WAS LIKE no other labor dispute Philadelphia had ever seen. World-renowned cellists and harpists with placards picketing in front of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association […]
The Dead of Night
“A male is beating a female between two buildings,” the dispatcher says. “13th and Lehigh.” It’s just past 2 a.m. on a Friday night, and […]
The Trouble With Harry Jay Katz
It’s a sultry summer evening, and the pulse of Philadelphia night life is flat-lining. By dusk on this Monday, most of the dwellers of America’s […]
The Shore ’08
LONG BEACH ISLAND THE VIBE Thought of as Jersey’s answer to the Hamptons in recent years (one of its towns is called Loveladies, for God’s […]