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Mayor Nutter will be easily re-elected next month. That was determined early this year, when serious potential challengers like Bill Green, Anthony Williams, Tom Knox […]

Ben Francisco Lifts Phils to 2-1 Series Lead. Of all the Phillies the Scoop thought might be the hero after three games in the postseason, […]

The Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ronald Tomalis will join Mayor Nutter and the SRC for a press conference at 1:30 p.m. at School District headquarters […]

The reaction to Chief Integrity Officer Joan Markman’s report that exposed the backroom politics surrounding the fight for control of a failing Philadelphia high school […]

When people think about dysfunction in Philadelphia’s city government, they think about the big things: pay to play, recalcitrant unions, the madness that is City […]

City Council has announced that it will hold two additional public hearings in the on-going effort to redistrict the city. A meeting for August 16th […]

When newspaper editors want to haze their young reporters—or drive older ones into early retirement—they send them to zoning board meetings. There, amid the ceaseless […]

Have you heard? Philly is rising. It’s not clear from what or where, exactly. From the ashes, maybe. Perhaps the depth of hell. Or it […]

Back when Michael Nutter first took office, the initiative called PhillyStat was as good a symbol as any that Change Had Come. Drawing its inspiration […]

John Street does not want to be mayor. Not again. He has said this many times, to many people, including me. “I don’t want to […]

After three years of non-stop budget drama that included massive tax hikes, huge spending cuts and endless political wrangling, Mayor Nutter delivered to City Council […]

In 1991, Philadelphia enjoyed the lowest bond rating ever recorded by a major municipality in America. It had a structural deficit in excess of $270 […]

The DROP Squad is under attack! And I’m here to come to their defense. In fact, I encourage them to run for re-election. Stu Bykofsky […]

By way of introduction, I’m still relatively new to this area and its customs, having only moved up here in September 2009. I say that […]

When someone does the inevitable recap of the year that was 2010 in Philadelphia, one of the trends should be name changes. SEPTA re-titled its […]