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Nutter Prepares For Tonight’s DNC Speech With National TV Appearances [UPDATED]
Mayor Michael Nutter will speak to the largest audience of his life tonight, and will put Philadelphia on display to a national audience. According to the official Democratic National Convention schedule, Nutter is set to go on between 8 and 9 p.m., likely after General Eric Shinseki, who became notable during the Bush years for his speaking out against the war...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: PW Abuse Awareness Essays Due in 3 Weeks
To reiterate from this week’s issue, PW Senior Editor Nina Hoffmann made a point to note Philadelphia Weekly is still looking for first-person essays for our upcoming sexual abuse project. “I called for first-person essays from abuse survivors, their loved ones and counselors in order to show that healing from sexual abuse does not occur in a vacuum. It requires...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Arlen Specter Has Cancer, Again
Arlen Specter has come clean on what’s wrong with him. “I’m battling cancer. It’s another battle I intend to win,” he said in a statement yesterday. Specter, a Democrat turned Republican turned Democrat, has fought cancer twice already—once in 2005, once in 2008. He says he looks forward to getting back to his regular life, and the...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Koch Brothers Group May Pull PA Ads After Low Romney Polling
Chuck Todd of MSNBC—or NBC News?—tweeted yesterday that Americans for Prosperity, a Koch Brothers-funded right-wing group, was pulling out of Pennsylvania after a series of bad polls for Mitt Romney’s campaign. Both an AFL-CIO and Inquirer poll showed Romney down by almost 10 points. Polls have consistently shown Pennsylvanians don’t care much for the...
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DAILY GRINDER: Nutter Talks Voter ID Education on MSNBC
Mayor Nutter went on Hardball with Chris Matthews last night to talk Voter ID. Specifically, the education and get-out-the-vote effort surrounding the issue now that a judge has held up the law. “My focus, our focus here in the city, city government: Utilizing every resource we can for all voters, is to make sure every eligible voter has the information...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Black Madam Charged
The so-called Black Madam, Padge Windslow, has been charged with third-degree murder, conspiracy, reckless endangerment and other violations. Padge got into trouble when her butt injection serum (meant to make for a bigger butt) allegedly killed an aspiring British dancer. She faces up to 88 years in prison. “Padge Windslowe’s arrogance and blatant...
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DAILY GRINDER: Sen. Casey Joins in Anti-Obama Smear
Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Bob Casey, a so-called “moderate” in the U.S. Senate, has voted with the President Obama over 90 percent of the time, but he regularly goes out of his way to pretend he doesn’t. He’s sort of like Joe Lieberman or Ben Nelson, except without the whole “Holding votes hostage” thing and with a penchant for trying to outlaw...
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DAILY GRINDER: Ramsey Wants New Gun Laws in Wake of “Dark Knight Rises” Shooting
Like Mayor Nutter, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey believes The Dark Knight Rises massacre should prompt more gun-control measures—but says politicians won’t do anything about it, because they are cowards. And he said all this, and more, on ABC’s This Week yesterday. “Many of our legislators unfortunately on the federal level lack the courage...
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Mayor Nutter Calls For Strengthened Gun Laws in Wake of Colorado Movie Theater Shooting
After a shooting that took place early this morning in Aurora, Colo., in which a gunman killed 12 people in a movie theater, Mayor Nutter has released a statement calling for stronger gun laws. “My most heartfelt condolences go out to the families and friends of the victims of this terrible act of violence,” begins the statement, which was sent out to media...
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