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Philadelphia’s primary election will be held on May 19. But today is the Snow Primary: a solid chance for the city’s mayoral candidates and mayoral-maybes to show […]

There’s been some speculation in recent days that Jim Kenney could more or less just take over the well-funded, professionalized campaign operation that Ken Trujillo […]

The Jim Kenney mayoral watch continued over the weekend, and what with snowpocalypse expected for the next two or three days, odds are his anticipated […]

So here’s something peculiar. Lynne Abraham’s first multimedia foray of the 2015 election features her holding a lap dog and going on at some length […]

There is, at last, drama and action in the mayor’s race. Still conspicuously missing, however, is any talk at all of policy, of governing, of, you […]

City Councilman Jim Kenney says he will make an announcement next week about whether he is running for mayor of Philadelphia. “I won’t have an answer […]

That was quick. Alba Martinez says she is not going to run for mayor of Philadelphia. Ken Trujillo, who dropped out of the mayor’s race this week, was urging her […]

Now that Darrell Clarke and Ken Trujillo aren’t running for mayor of Philadelphia, will City Councilman Jim Kenney finally jump into the race? He seems to be […]

Sam Katz, who has run for mayor three times and very nearly won once, sounds like a man positively itching to give it a go […]

Ken Trujillo shocked the city’s political class Wednesday when he announced that he was withdrawing from the mayoral race. You may be wondering: Why does it matter that a […]

(Editor’s Note: We’ll be updating this post throughout the day. For our analysis of what Trujillo’s departure means for the race, check out Holly Otterbein’s […]

Well, this can’t be good: Philadelphia’s mayoral field is apparently such a bore that now even the presumed candidates themselves are trying to explain why that is. Doug Oliver, a former […]

Terry Gillen may be out of the mayoral race, but it seems she can still shape the debate. In an Inquirer op-ed published yesterday, Gillen forcefully made […]

(Update: Trujillo dropped out of the race hours after this Q&A was published, citing family reasons.)  In the early days of this 2015 mayoral race, […]

Why is Philadelphia’s 2015 mayoral field so disappointing? Here’s one potential answer: Thanks to what some call a “loophole” in campaign finance law, incumbents such as state […]