Above photo of Republican mayoral candidate Al Taubenberger (center) speaking in German with Franz Portmann, at left, Honorary Consul of Switzerland, while actual Consul General of Switzerland in New York, Christoph Bubb, at right, listens. Photo courtesy of Next Mayor, taken for Philadelphia Daily News by Gina Gayle.
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Photo of the two candidates in the courtyard of City Hall, courtesy of Great Expectations.
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The delightfully simple, effective and well-received campaign advertisement supporting Michael Nutter. The catch, of course, is that Michael doesn’t say much at all, but rather his daughter Olivia, who boasts being the only child of any of the other candidates for mayor to be in a public school, does the talking.
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Suddenly October is melting away, and I need to move on this thesis project.
After a summer of intellectual wandering, casually Philadelphia-focused reading, broad urban political reading, and comparative city campaign research, I am returning to a focus on Philadelphia.
Today, I got the chance to briefly sit down with Karen Kaufmann, an associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and author of the Urban Voter, which I may likely use to frame a
portion of my final paper.
It was the first interview of my thesis, for which I expect to do many, and a fine start, indeed.
