Ed Rendell

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New Barnes Foundation Official Dedication

This morning, the fancy new Barnes Foundation on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was officially dedicated to its founder Albert C. Barnes. The doors opened at […]

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Ed Rendell’s New Book Is About the “Wussification of America”

Ed Rendell and the “Wussification of America.” Ed Rendell’s upcoming book A Nation of Wusses: How America’s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great […]

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Ed Rendell Says Barack Obama Should “Man Up” on Gay Marriage

Ed Rendell appeared on MSNBC today to talk about President Barack Obama’s stance on marriage equality. After MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart said that Obama wouldn’t […]

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Is the Inquirer Ed Rendell’s Propaganda Machine?

Here are two facts about Ed Rendell: Until very recently, he was the front man for a group of investors that will probably soon own […]

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Ed Rendell’s Records Subpoenaed for Link to Iranian Group

Ed Rendell Records Subpoenaed for Support of Iranian Exile Group. MEK is a group of Iranians classified as terrorists by the State Department. Rendell—along with […]

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Gerry Lenfest Replaces Ed Rendell as Chairman of Potential Inky, Daily News Investors

Lenfest Takes Over Investment Group from Rendell. Gerry Lenfest has replaced Ed Rendell as the chairman of the group of investors working on an exclusive […]

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Governor Tom Corbett Doesn’t Like the Idea of Ed Rendell Owning the Inquirer

Tom Corbett was on The Dom Giordano Show on 1210 AM today when he criticized Ed Rendell for attempting to buy the Philadelphia Media Network. […]

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Ed Rendell: Our Very Own Rupert Murdoch!

Poor Ed Rendell. He feels like everyone is picking on him for trying to control, er, buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. As Rendell […]

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Inky and Daily News Owner Antics Are Pathetic

Why all the Sturm and Drang about potential new owners for the Inquirer? Judging by recent history, whoever closes that particular dealYo won’t stick around […]

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Someone Must Have Waterboarded Ed Rendell

Someone Must Have Waterboarded Ed Rendell. The former guv had announced that he was done speaking to the media about his potential deal to purchase […]

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Buzz Bissinger Questions Ed Rendell’s Inquirer Motives

In an op-ed in the New York Times, Buzz Bissinger–as in the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author of the Ed Rendell-centered Prayer for the City, […]

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Inky and Daily News Cutting 37 Jobs

Inquirer and Daily News to Cut 37 Positions From Edit/Art Staffs. Yesterday afternoon, Victor Fiorillo learned that the Philadelphia Media Network, the papers’ parent company, […]

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Mass Layoffs Imminent at Inquirer, Daily News? [UPDATE]

This afternoon at 4 p.m., members of the Newspaper Guild labor union will meet with Philadelphia Media Network, the company that owns the Inquirer, Daily […]

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Rendell’s First Inquirer Bailout Didn’t Work

Famed political strategist James Carville once referred to Pennsylvania as two major cities with Alabama in between. What an insult to Alabama. From Ed Rendell […]

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Rendell’s First Inquirer Bailout Didn’t Work

Famed political strategist James Carville once referred to Pennsylvania as two major cities with Alabama in between. What an insult to Alabama. From Ed Rendell […]