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Michael Nutter

City Life

Want A Strong Mayor? Elect One!

“If you want a strong mayor,” my old boss used to say, “elect one.” I was offered that perspective in 1994 when I was on […]

City Life

Michael Nutter: The Mayor Who Cried Wolf

The latest round of budget battles in Philadelphia and Harrisburg further exposed Mayor Nutter’s political ineptitude and the city’s weak leadership at the state level. […]

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Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Great Chefs, Tyson Bees, Vetri, Sbraga and Mayor Nutter’s Secret Career as a Karaoke Superstar

The week started with some bad news (partners Tyson Wong Ophaso and Cliff Asavadejpakdee leaving the Tyson Bees food truck that they’d made famous) and […]

Foobooz

Quick Bites: Rapper’s Delight, Serafina Opening & Perrier’s Donation

Mayor Michael Nutter thrilled Karaoke participants at McGillin’s last night with his now classic rendition of Rapper’s Delight. No teleprompter was needed. Serafina is opening […]

City Life

Will Philly Finally Pull Itself Up by the Bootstraps?

You have to give credit where it’s due. Thanks to Mayor Nutter, folks have laughed more over the last two weeks than at any time […]

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R.I.P. Tax Cutter Mike Nutter

See if you can identify this unnamed elected official: “We cannot grow, or even preserve, our revenue base unless we cut taxes.” Tax reductions, “are […]

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Rest of the State to Philadelphia: Drop Dead

In 1979, Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic didn’t effectively plow the streets after a snowstorm — and as a direct result, he lost his primary election […]

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Nutter, Ackerman Split

It looks like the strange, strained alliance between Mayor Nutter and Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is finally over, a victim of good news delivered at the […]

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Nutter’s Humiliation and Other Election Fallout

The dozen or so Philadelphia voters who turned out  yesterday provided answers to a few questions I raised ahead of Tuesday’s election.

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Nutter Is Improving Philly One Block At a Time

It’s not what you could really call a comprehensive redevelopment plan, not yet, but for the first time since Mayor Nutter took office, his administration […]

City Life

Michael Nutter, Mayor Enigma

Councilman Michael Nutter was the confrontational policy wonk who got results. Candidate Nutter was the anti-crime crusader who would clean up City Hall. What about […]

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Can Michael Nutter Be Beat?

According to a poll released last week, a majority of Philadelphians say Michael Nutter doesn’t deserve a second term. Given his first three years in […]

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Re-Elect Nutter? Philly Gets What It Deserves!

Stupidity isn’t a crime. But neither is it a particularly endearing trait. Just look at some voter stupidity displayed this past election: • In Nevada, […]

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Would You Rather Be a Nutter or a Boner?

So I had to listen all through yesterday’s Vikings-Cardinals game to the announcers mispronouncing Brett Favre’s name, which really gets on my nerves. Whoever decided […]

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Philadelphia Is the Next Greece

In a recent speech, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter urged college students to stay in the city after graduation, stating, “we have a more knowledge-based workforce […]