We took a long look at the Philadelphia Parking authority in Sunday's Inquirer, a place that somehow manages to be both ruthlessly efficient and indisputably bloated. Send PPA tips this way.
Friend to the animals and City Councilman Jack Kelly is bankrolling his campaign with $30,000 in contributions from three limited partnerships all affiliated with a big Northeast developer. It's likely legal, but the Ethics Board nonetheless would "like to get more information."
Two of three challangers to Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller in the 8th district have agreed that the whichever one of them wins the majority of three newspapepr endorsements will stay in the race while the other drops out. The idea is not to split the "anti-Donna" vote between a large field of challengers, which is what's happened in the 8th district in every election since 1908.
The Daily News takes a look at the city's ailing Republican Party.
John Baer has some legal advice for Vince Fumo.
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