College groups gather signatures for candidates
The deadline for getting on the ballot for the Pennsylvania primaries is rapidly approaching, and several candidates from both parties have been scrambling to fulfill the necessary obligations.
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The deadline for getting on the ballot for the Pennsylvania primaries is rapidly approaching, and several candidates from both parties have been scrambling to fulfill the necessary obligations.
University Police arrested at least two males -- and possibly as many as six -- around 10:30 last night, apparently in connection with an attempted mugging near 40th and Spruce streets.
The University held an official press conference yesterday to announce the formal nomination of Amy Gutmann as Penn's eighth president.
The Philadelphia Police arrested an armed man outside of University President Judith Rodin's house Wednesday night after receiving a report that gunshots had been fired in the neighborhood.
The Panhellenic Council passed the torch to its new executive board for the upcoming year on Sunday.
Just two weeks after the 2003 municipal elections might seem too early to start talking about voter awareness efforts for 2004. The newly elected candidates have not yet assumed their respective offices, and the final votes for some elections around the country have not even been tallied.
Following any major election, candidates are faced with the concrete reality that after months of intense campaigning, only one has secured a job, while the other, presumably, has not.
As the final numbers came in on Tuesday night, one thing was clear -- current Mayor John Street had won his bid for re-election by a landslide.
Mayor John Street put an emphatic punctuation mark on the end of the 2003 mayoral campaign yesterday, beating his Republican challenger Sam Katz by an enormous margin.
Somehow this seems all too familiar. Exactly four years ago, Philadelphians arrived at the polls to cast their vote for the man who they hoped would lead the city into the 21st century.
Major cities across the United States are spending time, money and effort on improving the quality of life for their residents, and Philadelphia is certainly no exception.
When Mayor John Street took office in January of 2000, Philadelphia schools were struggling to survive. The Republican-controlled state legislature was threatening total privatization of the school district, and the future of public education was anything but certain.
As the race for mayor of Philadelphia heads into the final two weeks and the federal probe involving John Street continues, campaign workers and political analysts alike are assessing just what needs to happen for either candidate to win.
In what may have been the first opportunity for substantive discussion of the issues facing the city of Philadelphia, Mayor John Street and his Republican challenger Sam Katz faced off yesterday in an hour-long debate at the Mandell Theater at Drexel University.
In yet another twist in the race for mayor of Philadelphia, Republican candidate Sam Katz filed private criminal charges Tuesday against the campaign of his opponent Mayor John Street.
With voter turnout at consistent lows and political participation in a state of decline, a group of students has undertaken a seemingly impossible task -- registering Penn students to vote.
Philadelphia Police have not named any suspects in what is being described as the robbery-shooting of University employee Patrick Yannul, according to police officials.
In any election cycle, receiving the endorsement of a local group or prominent individual can be a huge boost to a campaign.
During the mayoral campaign in 1999, then-Democratic candidate John Street pledged to focus specifically on neighborhood issues and continue the forward progress the city made under former mayor Ed Rendell.
The smell of pizza and the buzz of political chatter welcomed students to Houston Hall yesterday afternoon.