Heard in the Hall

Mayor-elect Michal Nutter endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser last night attended by former President Bill Clinton. We'll leave it to others to speculate as to what, if any, impact Nutter's endorsement will have on Hillary Clinton's fortunes, but it's worth remembering that Mayor Street has also already come out in support of Clinton. Street and Nutter have more in common then the casual observer might think. But that's a topic for another day.

There's a huge showdown brewing in City Council over the question of the use of non-union labor on the $700 million Convention Center construction site. Council's historically been very labor friendly, but the composition of the building trades unions - largely white laborers living outside of Philadelphia - has been a sore point for years. Gov. Rendell and the Convention Center board would have to sign off on any plan to use non-union labor, and that's not going to happen. Council itself may step back from the brink (the chamber appears evenly split), but there's a lot of frustration in play here.

The Daily News speculates that District Attorney Lynne Abraham may quit early next year to run for Attorney General. Earthlink was a no-show at a Council hearing on the future of Wireless Philadelphia.