Axe-throwing. Hibachi. But not a place where the chefs throw axes at you.

Pretty much. (Same with the now-ended Vincent Hughes flirtation with running.)

Welcome to politics.

A room which seemed to have The Dot and the Line playing in constant loop.

After a few weeks of allowing open speculation and courtship.

That's some nifty Wall Street accounting trick to let you simultaneously claim "he’s not on her campaign team" but "he is providing expert advice from his experience on a daily basis to my campaign."

I don't know why a Rhynhart supporter would want to minimize Mayor Street's role if they're proud of having his endorsement.

He's on her campaign team.

>“He is providing expert advice from his experience on a daily basis to my campaign,” Rhynhart said. “Mayor Street is a huge asset to my campaign with the endorsement and then also, his time, energy, knowledge and constructive criticism.”
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>“I am going to be in meetings. I’ll go to the wards,” Street said. “I will be helping with public policy. I am going to do whatever I can.”

It is incredibly early right now; no one's going to be voting for at least two months before mail ballots are issued.

Read the Inquirer every day, read Billy Penn, read City and State PA, the Philadelphia Citizen, etc. The information will come to you. There are many talented candidates in the field and only a few (Amen Brown, DeLeon, Bloom) who are truly unworthy of consideration regardless of ideology.

Oh, I'm not discounting that. (Especially if Sharif is on the same page.)

I just wouldn't look at that particular data point.

Given his current health issues (the only former Gov not to attend Shapiro's inauguration), Rendell may not endorse anyone. If he does, it's likely Rhynhart, Brown, or Domb.

I don't know that Street was personally corrupt. I don't believe he enriched himself. But he didn't know, or didn't care that others like Ron White and Corey Kemp certainly did.

>The indictment alleges that White corrupted City Treasurer Kemp, from January 2002 through October 16, 2003, by making payments and giving other benefits to Kemp. In exchange, Kemp followed White’s direction regarding the decisions Kemp was required to make regarding the employment of financial service companies to carry out bond transactions, and other matters. Kemp’s decisions created large financial gains for White and those White favored....
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>The indictment states that, throughout 2002 and 2003, White showered Kemp with payments and other gratuities, with the intent to influence Kemp in his official actions. These gifts included at least $10,000 paid in 2002, a $10,350 deck for Kemp’s house in 2003, a trip to the Super Bowl in San Diego in January 2003 (including transportation by private jet and limousine, and a ticket to the game), tickets and limousine rides to all three days of the NBA All-Star events in Philadelphia in February 2002, and numerous other meals, parties, and choice tickets to sports and entertainment events. The indictment asserts that White also held out the promise of vast future riches, assuring Kemp secret participation in what White represented would be lucrative financial opportunities in the development of the Philadelphia International Airport and a racetrack/casino proposed at the Philadelphia Naval Yard....
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>The indictment states that in exchange for these benefits, Kemp permitted White to direct Kemp’s decision-making as Treasurer of the City. On a daily basis, White instructed Kemp regarding which providers to select for participation in City transactions, and which to exclude, and Kemp followed those instructions. Kemp successfully recommended that White himself be hired as counsel in City bond deals, more frequently than any other attorney, earning White $633,594 in fees during Kemp’s tenure. Kemp also repeatedly recommended the selection of a printing company nominally controlled by White’s paramour, defendant Janice Renee Knight, which earned $308,632 in City bond deals during the same period. On one occasion, according to the indictment, Kemp told a financial advisor to the City that White would be paid $35,000 on a deal “just for the hell of it,” even though White “didn’t really do anything.” Kemp then informed White of the same thing, saying, “you got your boy sitting in, in the Treasurer’s seat, man . . . that’s what we do, man, take care of each other.”

I'm not sure that Street's results in a general election tell you that much about his continuing pull in a primary.

Most politicos expect Nutter to endorse Rhynhart as his protege, but I think the extent to which he was content to leave the rumors of his availability out there raises questions.

If minors are involved (and even if not), Songbird in Collingwood is a nice option.

I wouldn't want to put an elderly passenger through that schlep.

Like, ten minutes? It's not that anything is far, at all -- it's just that you have to wait for the shuttle to arrive.

Yep, they are always my "oh, fuck, I forgot that I also need and I don't want to run to the supermarket" place -- tomato paste, a particular flour, they have so much.

I think it's probably the opposite: "if we stop asking the city for money, they won't have the power to make us sit through sensitivity training."

That threat is already manifest.

So, basically, "you can impeach a DA, but not for weaksauce like this."

I'll say this much: there's a lot of analogues there -- they have a Stuffed and Mounted Animals and Dinos Museum, so do we. They have a great Art Museum, so do we.

What they have, and we don't (among other things), is Second City. An amazing comedy institution. And amazing architecture tours of a city wholly rebuilt after The Fire. Enjoy their river.

Never Waffle House. Still an iHop.

(Added: there also used to be an 24/7 iHop just off Rittenhouse Square where the Lululemon is now.)

On 2, those neighborhoods changed in ethnic composition mostly; the economic change is much more recent and that's what disrupts. 25-30 years ago, Queen Village and Graduate Hospital did the same. The Northeast, by contrast, has only changed in ethnic composition but never in economics.

Bethesda Project for men's stuff.

How much time do you have to kill?