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Archive for February, 2008

Today I interviewed Phil Goldsmith.
Photo of Phil Goldsmith at right and Streets Commissioner Clarena Tolson at a meeting about Cresheim Valley Drive in March 2005, courtesy of Chestnut Hill Local, a community paper serving northwest Philadelphia.

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Carol Ann Campbell, one of Philadelphia’s super delegates and a city Democratic committee cog, has endorsed Barack Obama after a conversation with the candidate’s wife, the Associated Press is reporting.
Campbell is as involved in partisan politics and the Democratic machine in Philadelphia as anyone.
Previously, the former City Councilwoman had said she wouldn’t endorse either candidate [...]

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Today, I also interviewed Brett Mandel, the executive director of Philadelphia Forward,
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Photo of Brett Mandel, presenting during a real estate taxation conference held at Temple University on Feb. 23, 2007. He was using a model to show that in Philadelphia similar properties pay different real estate tax bills. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Forward.

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I shared lunch with Fred Voigt, the longtime executive director of the Committee of Seventy, today.
Photo courtesy of Chestnut Hill Local, a community newspaper in northwest Philadelphia.

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T. Milton Street

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