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CIty Controller Alan Butkovitz on Wednesday released a letter suggesting City Hall operates a special hotline service that takes calls directly from Philadelphia’s powerful and connected […]

After years of working without a contract, AFSCME 33 — the city’s largest union — finally signed a contract with the city last week. The city’s […]

Looks like City Council is ready to move ahead with its review of Mayor Nutter’s proposed sale of PGW to a Connecticut company.

Used to be that the mayoralty of Philadelphia was a job worth taking a risk for, a gig deserving of a little personal sacrifice. Frank […]

Mayor Nutter did a good thing this week. Really. His decision to come to an accommodation with Councilman Jim Kenney on pot decriminalization will have widespread […]

Mayor Nutter is finally on the decriminalization bandwagon. The mayor today said he would sign a bill decriminalizing possession of small amounts of pot — […]

After a summer of waiting, we should find out this week whether Mayor Nutter will sign a City Council bill that decriminalizes possession of small […]

And with this picture, Thursday’s re-opening of Dilworth Park became the best Philly event ever: Michael Nutter and Philly Jesus: Together at last.

Chaka Fattah is talking — but not about that. Everybody else is talking — about who might replace Fattah if the legal scandals in his […]

The old deadline is dead. Now there’s a new one. Mayor Nutter, who failed in his efforts to get a City Council vote on selling […]

It looks as though Mayor Nutter is charting a new course on pot decriminalization. Newsworks reports that the mayor — who still has several weeks […]

I was writing and doing laundry, and it was hot out anyway. So instead of walking the four and a half blocks from my place […]

All hail the end of summer. Sure, that means it’s time to stop being lazy and get back to work. But for journalists, that means […]

Don’t forget: The city’s parade to celebrate the Taney Dragons appearance in the Little League World Series starts at 2 p.m. today.

OK, we’ve probably beat up on the Philadelphia Police Department enough for one summer. We’ve suffered through a new scandal, retreaded an old scandal, questioned […]