campaign 2010: Philadelphia Metropolis

Controversy Over Secure Communities

By Daniel Denvir During the five-month period from October 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011, there were 49,983 immigrants who were administratively arrested or booked into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody through Secure Communities. Of the total, 23 percent... (Comments)

John Adams

John S. Adams, 31, one of 12 Democrats running for one vacancy on Traffic Court, has several criminal convictions.  In  2003, Adams pleaded guilty to conspiracy, theft and receiving stolen property in a case in Bucks County.  He received probation.... (Comments)

The Saga of Karen Brown

By Tom Ferrick Jr.» Karen Brown's life story is a melodrama, the stuff of a television miniseries. It is also a story that can be told in numbers -- most of them negative ones -- of mortgage foreclosures, taxes owed, gas bills unpaid, of bankruptcy and financial distress. We offer a profile of Brown, the endorsed Republican candidate for mayor, and her financial woes. (Comments)

Answer to No. 5

Ivy S. Staten is a Democratic candidate who lives with her parents on the 65-hundred block of North Broad Street. Records show her parents owe the city three years of back real estate taxes -- for 2009, 2010 and this... (Comments)

Answer to No. 4

Harry Levant is one of the 40 candidates in the Democratic primary vying for 10 vacancies on Common Pleas Court. Levant's web page talks about his qualifications. Court records talk about his tax liabilities, which include: -- Back Philadelphia real... (Comments)