http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06312/736519-178.stmw
snowballs at Dallas Cowboys
http://www.governor.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=3080&&level=1&css=L1&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true
Photo courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University.
Archive for June, 2007
Ed Rendell
Posted in Other People, tagged Ed Rendell on June 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Jack Kelly
Posted in Other People on June 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Photo courtesy of Hallwatch.org.
Atlanta: give me your Republican mayors
Posted in Other cities, tagged Topic on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I may be finding a trend.
At some point, two party systems went missing in our country’s great cities, and no one seems to care.
Scant a city is without some complaints of at least a lackluster Republican Party, yet I am finding a dearth of even academics or journalists who know where – or even when [...]
Joe Hoeffel
Posted in Other People on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Phoenix: an active urban Republican Party
Posted in Other cities, tagged Race, Topic on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A few hours ago, I got an email from Ed Montini, a political writer for the Arizona Republic, a regional newspaper based in Phoenix.
It comes as no surprise that a city of 1.5 million, better than 75 percent of whom are white, can sustain some form of a Republican Party.
Date: Tue 12 Jun 17:02:51 EDT [...]
Thatcher Longstreth
Posted in Other People on June 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
W. Thatcher Longstreth died.
Photo of Longstreth at left, City Paper Columnist Mary Frangipanni Patel in middle, and Councilman Jim Kenney at right, courtesy of Young American PAC.
Photo of Longstreth at left from days at Princeton University, courtesy of Princeton.
Frank Rizzo
Posted in Other People, tagged Frank Rizzo on June 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Photo of Frank Rizzo mural at , courtesy of Philadelphia Reflections.
Photo courtesy of Internationalist.org.
Temple College Republicans
Posted in Other People, tagged Young Republicans on June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Temple a bit too liberal for you? Join the Temple University College Republicans today and make a difference!
Contact Ryan McCool:
ryanmccool@temple.edu
Shame of a City: a Philadelphia mayoral election documentary
Posted in News, tagged John Street, Sam Katz on June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In 2003, the Philadelphia mayoral contest was set to be of epic proportions.
It was a rematch of now-incumbent Mayor John F. Street and Republican Sam Katz. In 1999, Katz lost by less than 8,000 votes, the closest election in the history of mayoral popular votes in Philadelphia, particularly considering more than 425,000 votes were cast.
Filmmaker [...]