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May 15 2009 | Comment 1

It’s really important, guys. Philly District Attorney Lynne Abraham was in office for longer than some of PW’s interns have been alive. And she was the wrong person for the job. A lot of Philadelphia politicians, once they have a foothold, achieve tremendous staying power. Whoever gets voted DA this time is likely to be around for a while. Here’s hoping you like him.

Vote on Tuesday, May 19, for judges, city controller. I’ll be running this post again.

To find your polling place, go here.

liz | 2:54 PM | politics

Steve Says:

I really don’t like lawyers. District attorneys, or private practice attorneys, they rarely have your concerns in mind.

May 16 4:57 AM

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Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.