campaign finance: Philadelphia Metropolis

Creating the New City: Part One

By Ada Kulesza» This is a story about lovers. It's no love story; rather, it is a story about people who love a city they have inherited, an ancient place founded by Quakers and built by Revolutionaries. Pockets of that old world are still scattered around Philadelphia, but the men who first built it wouldn't recognize it. Philadelphia is the bone yard of the Industrial Revolution. The ruins of extinct businesses stand like empty monuments to an economy that's gone. But, many of the young people living here today see beauty in its post-industrial shell. Look inside and you'll see people working, slowly, to create the city's new eco (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)

Say It Ain't So, Sam

It's been the worst-kept political secret in Philadelphia and now it is out in public.  As the Inquirer reported this weekend, Sam Katz is considering running for mayor against Michael Nutter in 2011 as a Democrat and at the urging... (Comments)

Oil & Gas Interests Top 10 Givers 2008-2010

                                                       East Resources Inc., Warrendale, PA $276,525 CNX Gas Company (Consol), Pittsburgh $116,600 Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City $68,640 Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, Texas $61,600 S. W. Jack Drilling, Indiana, PA $58,307 Equitable Production Co., Pittsburgh $53,550 Dominion Exploration... (Comments)

How the Money Game is Changing Harrisburg

By Tom Ferrick Jr. State Rep. Dwight Evans raised nearly $1.7 million for his campaign fund during the two-year cycle that ended with the 2008 election. But the most amazing part isn't the amount of money he amassed; it is... (Comments)