Mark Stehle NO WAY HOME: West Philadelphia’s Gerald Sterrett has been trying since January to get his daughter’s house back from an alleged con man. [ predicaments ] Gerald Sterrett is a man guided by a deep faith — a…

The city’s Board of Elections is currently counting absentee, alternative and provisional ballots from last week’s election to determine the winner of the second minority party City Council At-Large seat. On Tuesday, candidate candidate Al Taubenberger came in a close…

Yesterday, Mayor Michael Nutter said that Occupy Philly has “changed.” Following a vote by Occupy Philly to remain at their chosen site, on Dilworth Plaza, despite the city’s request for them to leave so that a major construction project can…

Neal Santos MILITARY MEDDLE? City Council candidate David Oh, at the Korean War Memorial, was accused of exaggerating his military record. For more reporting on the controversy surrounding candidate David Oh’s military record, see our news blog Naked City. […

10th District Councilman Brian O’Neill, the sole Republican District representative on Philadelphia’s City Council, commands a great deal of influence. He also commands a great number of jobs, according to many sources inside City Hall. While O’Neill’s district staff is…

The first words out of City Commissioner Joe Duda’s mouth last night were neither a greeting, question, nor the answer to a question posed to him. Instead, Duda marched onstage at a Monday’s City Commissioners candidates debate, sponsored by the…

Even M. Lopez When news of Arlene Ackerman’s imminent departure broke on Monday, Mayor Nutter announced to the press that negotiations for her leaving had been underway since June —  which means that much of what the public saw and…

Remember the drug-infested Conrail railroad tracks we wrote about this spring? The tracks, which used to host 8 busy tracks but now see only one active one, run from the waterfront along a viaduct over Lehigh Avenue, and then descend…

Unless a sudden (and successful) challenge to his filing petition emerges, International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement candidate Diop Olugbala, also known as Wali Rahman, will be on the ballot with Mayor Nutter and Republican candidate Karen Brown this November, affirms…