Covered the Philadelphia mayoral debate at St. Joe’s today. You can read my story about it via this link. But this post merely serves two purposes: To let you see Nelson Diaz saying he wants some marijuana and Milton Street…
Category: Local Politics
Philly Mayoral Candidate Milton Street Tells Me How He Would Have Handled MOVE
Imagine my delight when WHYY news-boss Chris Satullo asked me to moderate the Milton Street portion of Wednesday’s mayoral forum that was co-sponsored by business group PENJERDEL. Suffice it to say, Street and I had an insightful 20-minute chat covering…
Philly Mayoral Candidate Doug Oliver Drops By Murphy’s Quizzo Night
As most of you already know, I’m helming NewsWorks’ online mayoral coverage this year. And, as part of that coverage, I had the bright idea of inviting all of the Philly mayoral candidates to drop by the Quizzo night I…
Philly City Council Candidate Accused Of Nasty Facebook Posts Holds Incredible Press Conference
No, Philadelphia’s Seventh District City Council race doesn’t technically fall under NinetyNine’s mayoral-coverage auspices. But when said council race features racist, homophobic and otherwise insensitive Facebook posts purportedly written by a Democratic Party-endorsed challenger, and that challenger hosts a press…
Philly Mayoral Candidate T. Milton Street Sr.: Home Is Not Necessarily Where You Sleep
If you pay attention to Philadelphia politics, you already know who Milton Street is. If you don’t, you should. If only for this coffin-singing video. Here’s my story from yesterday, when he showed up to pay a $130 fine with…
In Which I Find A Way To Include Katy Perry In My Philadelphia Mayoral-Campaign Coverage
“Since at least one member of the NinetyNine team is a Katy Perry enthusiast — KatyCat is my, er, the preferred nomenclature — we got to thinking: Which of Perry’s pop offerings most apply to each of Philadelphia’s mayoral candidates?”…
An Essay On Katy Perry, AS Roma, Rocky Balboa (Both Real And Fake) And Philadelphia Landmarks
“Yeah, Independence Mall is nice and historic and all, but you could sense a palpably magnetic pop-culture connection on those ‘Rocky Steps’ that, while borderline cheesy, can’t be found elsewhere in town. … Why anybody would want to adulterate that,…
Today In Spell-Checking Ex-Con’s New Facebook Pages [Updated With Correction]
Welcome back to Philadelphia, former state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo. If I may leave the land of objectivity for a moment, I’m of the mind that Philly’s public school-funding debacle would be considerably less troublesome had you never gone to…
Bernie Goetz’s Compelling Gun-Control Debate Insight
Esquire did its annual “What I’ve Learned” issue this month. Interviews with noteworthy folks, broken down into concise quotes that summarize what was said in an interview. When Cal Fussman interviewed noted subway vigilante Bernie Goetz, both knew not that…
I’m Really, Really Happy That Gov. Christie Got To Meet His Hero
Far as I’m concerned, everything you need to know about someone can be gleaned from observing them while they face adversity. Take Gov. Chris Christie, for example. He’s a guy I didn’t respect for the longest time. This was solely…