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	Student Voices: Philadelphia: What Does the Mayor Do? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		According to the Home Rule Charter, the mayor of Philadelphia is the city's "chief executive officer." The mayor is responsible for all executive and administrative work by the city, which means he or she must make sure that the city's laws are carried out.
		The mayor must suggest ways to make sure that the operating budget for the coming year is balanced, meaning that the amount of money that the city spends on services is equal to the amount of money the city receives from the state of Pennsylvania, the federal government, and taxes from the citizens of Philadelphia.
		The mayor may recommend legislation (laws) to the city council that relates to any area of concern for the city of Philadelphia, and the mayor may require the council to meet in special sessions to act on that legislation.
	student-voices.org /philadelphia/mayor (0 words)

	Probe of Philadelphia mayor deepens racial split - The Boston Globe
		In the two weeks since the news broke that Street was a subject of a federal investigation, Philadelphia's second fl mayor has sought to cast himself as a man being persecuted because of his race, and the message appears to be resonating with fl voters.
		Philadelphia is nearly equally divided between fls and whites, and voters in city elections traditionally split along ethnic lines.
		"Philadelphia is in a moment of historic crisis, and unfortunately the mayor has fueled the fires with a blatant appeal based on race.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/10/21/probe_of_philadelphia_mayor_deepens_racial_split_boston_globe (0 words)

	FBI probe seen to boost Philadelphia mayor in polls - The Boston Globe
		PHILADELPHIA -- In the final weeks of his campaign for reelection, Mayor John Street may have received a key boost from an unlikely source: FBI agents who bugged his office.
		Invoking protection from a higher authority, the mayor paraphrased the Bible, shouting, "I walk by faith, not by sight," to about 200 unionized health-care workers and a collection of officials -- two congressmen, several City Council members, and a dozen judges -- at a rally in a downtown hotel ballroom Oct. 14.
		Since the discovery of the bugs, federal investigators have informed the mayor he is a subject, not a target, of a secret two-year investigation of alleged corruption.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/11/02/fbi_probe_seen_to_boost_philadelphia_mayor_in_polls (0 words)

	Welcome to Phillyville: Who Will Be the Next Mayor of Phillyville? (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Mayor of New York City had the vision to build the Erie Canal and thereby wrest the economic control of this country from Philadelphia's grasp.
		As noted by Larry Eichel of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Philadelphia is the most expensive place in America for a business to operate - in terms of taxes and fees." The BPT consists of a.19% tax on gross receipts and a 6.5% tax on net income.
		Philadelphia cannot afford to shoot itself in the foot by allowing yet another source of tax revenues be diverted from city coffers to the suburbs.
	phillyville.blogspot.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/08/who-will-be-next-mayor-of-phillyville_25.html (0 words)

	Religious Liberty Archive : Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, Colorado Springs, CO
		Under the act of 1832, the corporation of Philadelphia passed an ordinance providing for the building of the college, and the board of trustees created thereby was organized in March, 1833.
		That the corporation of the city of Philadelphia is not authorized by its charter to administer the trusts of this legacy, and that the intentions of the testator would be defeated by the substitution of any other trustee.
		Girard walked the wards of hospitals, not subdued by the groans of the dying or deterred by the fear of death to himself.
	www.churchstatelaw.com /cases/vidal.asp (0 words)

	Philadelphia's People in Power
		Ashbridge clearly states that he is taking on the position of mayor, most of all, to benefit himself and he is determined to get all that he can within the four year time frame, since mayors at the time were not allowed to exceed their service of four years in the position.
		Even though the Bullitt Charter's aim was to decrease the intensity of corruption in Philadelphia, by giving more authority to the mayor, the mayors of Ashbridge's time did not have as much power as do those mayors of today.
		Despite the fact that the mayor had greater authority than before, the city's government structure remained dispersed with significant offices independent of the mayor who as already mentioned, only could serve one term of four years.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~am482_04/emmanuel/Phila/power.html (0 words)

	CNN.com - Bugging device found in Philadelphia mayor's office - Oct. 7, 2003
		Philadelphia Mayor John Street responded Tuesday to the discovery of a listening device in his office.
		An electronic bugging device was found Tuesday morning in the office of Philadelphia Mayor John Street, a spokeswoman for the mayor said.
		The device, discovered during a routine security sweep by Philadelphia police, is now being investigated by the FBI, according to Barbara Grant, the mayor's director of communications.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/07/mayor.bugged/index.html (0 words)

	OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
		Mayor Street has operated under a cloud of controversy ever since his 1999 statement that people who gave to his campaign would have a better chance to win city contracts and those who didn't couldn't expect much.
		Despite the ethical cloud that threatens to engulf the mayor, he would normally be considered a favorite for re-election in a city where Al Gore won 80% of the vote in 2000.
		Mayor Street has tried to energize them by claiming the federal investigation of his office is part of a White House effort to discredit a fl mayor.
	www.opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110004170 (0 words)

	USATODAY.com - Philadelphia mayor plans to end homelessness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		PHILADELPHIA (AP) — City officials announced a 10-year plan to eradicate homelessness in Philadelphia after meeting with advocates and others trying to best tackle the problem.
		Mayor John F. Street said $10 million in city, state and federal funds have already been earmarked for the plan.
		The $10 million is in addition to the $64 million annual budget of Philadelphia's emergency services office and $30 million annually in other funds for counseling and medical care to the homeless.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-10-13-philadelphiahomeless_x.htm (0 words)

	FBI bug helps Street win re-election as Philadelphia mayor
		Street, a 25-year veteran of Philadelphia's political wars and a former president of City Council, was joined by Gov. Ed Rendell, a popular two-term mayor, and hundreds of cheering, clapping supporters in a joyous celebration at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel in Center City last night.
		Officials from the mayor's campaign wrote a street-savvy hip-hop song called "Street Life" to attract younger voters and it was performed by a rap group called Dem Boyz.
		Katz pledged to "get Philadelphia moving again" with more jobs and residents and complained the city had lost the economic momentum it had under Rendell in the 1990s.
	www.post-gazette.com /election/20031105phillymayoreln4.asp (0 words)

	City Mayors: John F Street - Mayor of Philadelphia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mayor Street’s flagship policy in his first term was the Neighbourhood Transformation Initiative, which saw housing renewal schemes and the demolition of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods.
		Philadelphia is also pioneering a city-wide wi-fi network in a bid to reduce IT exclusion among the poor and make the city more attractive to young professionals.
		The mayor’s ranking is said to reflect his indirect involvement in a corruption scandal arising from his 2003 re-election bid which saw former city treasurer Corey Kemp jailed for 10 years.
	www.citymayors.com.cob-web.org:8888 /mayors/philadelphia_mayor.html (0 words)

	City of Philadelphia \| Welcome to the Mayor's Office
		Mayor John F. Street´s first term as Mayor has been highlighted by an unprecedented focus on the city's neighborhoods.
		His Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI), a $1.6 billion strategy to rebuild the city's neighborhoods, aims to remove blight and attract private development.
		In May of 2002, Mayor Street launched a public safety component to the NTI program, Operation Safe Streets, which is successfully driving illegal drug sales from the city's neighborhoods.
	www.phila.gov /mayor (70 words)

	U.S. Mayor Article \| Philadelphia's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI) (April 15, 2002)
		NTI is unprecedented in terms of the $295 million commitment of City funds being made to get ahead of the problems that have been allowed to fester for decades.
		Philadelphia prospered during the first half of the 20th century.
		Philadelphia can design the best information technology systems to manage city business and streamline the land acquisition process.
	www.usmayors.org /uscm/us_mayor_newspaper/documents/04_15_02/philadelphia.asp (0 words)

	Special Reports : Mayor's Race -- Philadelphia Inquirer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The men who would be mayor are working to get their messages out, even as the city seems to be on vacation.
		The developing 2007 mayoral race shifted on its axis last week as Democratic U.S. Rep. Bob Brady signaled he might run during a fund-raiser that became a celebration of his 20 years as city party boss.
		Philadelphians are in a pessimistic mood, with 64 percent saying the city is moving in the wrong direction, according to the first Keystone Poll gauging opinions in the 2007 race for mayor.
	www.philly.com /mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/mayor (0 words)

	Intrigue in Philadelphia involves mayor, FBI, listening device and scandal
		PHILADELPHIA -- The remarkable mayoral corruption drama continues to unfold in Philadelphia, where a high-tech listening device was found in the office of first-term Mayor John Street and FBI agents acknowledge an ongoing investigation, but refuse to divulge what they're looking for or who, exactly, they're investigating.
		In any event, the circumstantial evidence accumulated since Tuesday, when the bug was discovered during a routine police sweep of the mayor's second-floor office, suggests that Street, his administration or all of City Hall are indeed being targeted, at least in the traditional sense of the word.
		Ali is emerging as one of the possible focuses of the two-pronged investigation, according to reports in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.
	www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20031011phillymayor1011p2.asp (0 words)

	PHILA.GOV \| Welcome to the City of Philadelphia
		City Takes Comprehensive Look at Philadelphia’s Children through Report Card 2006 Report Card 2006 is the 7th annual assessment of the well-being of Philadelphia’s children and youth.
		Mayor John F. Street unveiled the City’s new comprehensive, citywide violence prevention and reduction plan.
		Mayor John F. Street has announced three major steps the city will take to combat youth violence in Philadelphia.
	www.phila.gov (0 words)

	W2i: Digital Cities Convention: Mayor John F. Street: City of Philadelphia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mayor John F. Street, 60 years old, was born into rural poverty in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and came up the "hard way," growing up without electricity or indoor plumbing as a child.
		Mayor Street is known for his expertise on a range of issues including city budgeting and fiscal matters, housing, education and crime.
		Mayor Street is equally proud to have passed, during his council term, a liquor-by-the-drink tax that resulted in an additional $23 million per year for Philadelphia public schools.
	www.w2idigitalcitiesconvention.com.cob-web.org:8888 /bios/john_street.html (0 words)

	Pay to Play: The FBI Bug in the Mayor's Office and the Corruption Investigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Philadelphians are nothing if not proud of our history, so it was no surprise to me that Philadelphia Mayor John Street was recently reelected despite the discovery of a FBI bug in his city hall office shortly before the election.
		Street’s supporters protested the bugging of the mayor and claimed the federal investigation was political and racially motivated (the mayor’s opponent, Sam Katz, is white and Street is fl).
		After the news of the bug in the mayor’s office broke, the FBI raided the city’s Finance Department, the City Treasurer Office and the city Board of Pensions and Retirement.
	www.orchardpressmysteries.com /pay_to_play.html (0 words)

	(Philadelphia) Mayor's brother to keep ($1.2 Million)contract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The mayor said he asked officials at the airport to review the contract and void it "within the limits of the law." If it means an eventual court fight, so be it, the mayor said.
		Mayor Street also called the arrangement "suspect," suggesting that it was a roundabout way for Philadelphia Airport Services to meet minority hiring goals.
		Philadelphia is almost as bad as Wash., D.C. when it comes to accepting and tolerating government corruption.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/930403/posts (0 words)

	The Philadelphia Story
		Mayor Rizzo had been making overtures to the president about his interest in supporting Mr.
		If a substantial number of addicts were enrolled in the TASC program in Philadelphia and the local police and courts cooperated in not booking them for narcotics offenses or other minor crimes, there would be an immediate decrease in the crime statistics in Philadelphia (although no decrease in actual crimes).
		He was determined to repeat the "Philadelphia Story" in as many cities as possible, realizing that Congress could not easily refuse appropriations for any crime-control measures presented in an election year.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/History/aof/aof29.html (0 words)

	Interview with Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell
		When you become mayor of a big American city, there are so many things that need attention and so many things that have to be fixed that there is no way you can do them all at one time.
		I thought he was a great modern day mayor, especially his first two terms because he was an unabashed and outspoken promoter of city life.
		Having won in 91 and having spent eight wonderfully satisfying years as mayor, that overwhelming desire to be a chief executive in public life has been fulfilled.
	www.insidepolitics.org /intrendell.html (0 words)

	Corruption Getting Close to Mayor - PhillyBlog - Philadelphia
		FOR MOST OF the past three years, Mayor Street's brother T. Milton Street has been paid $360,000 a year as a "consultant" by the company holding a lucrative contract at Philadelphia International Airport, according to a court filing.
		Mayor Street pulled the plug on that idea, saying it had "the potential to be looked at as a kind of insiders' deal."
		Mayor Street's spokesman, Dan Fee, said yesterday that before the Daily News' call, the mayor knew nothing of the size or duration of PAS payments to his brother.
	www.phillyblog.com /philly/showthread.php?t=5413 (0 words)

	Cerritos Mayor invited to Philadelphia for Independence Day
		Cerritos Mayor John F. Crawley has been invited to Philadelphia to celebrate Independence Day and participate in a series of events being organized by the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution (PSSR) to commemorate the patriotic holiday.
		Mayor Crawley will be one of 13 dignitaries to ring the Normandy Liberty Bell for the first time in the United States.
		Mayor Crawley said, "I’m proud to represent the City of Cerritos at these patriotic events.
	www.ci.cerritos.ca.us /comnews/PressReleases/2005/pssr.html (0 words)

	City Mayors: John F Street - Mayor of Philadelphia
		City Mayors reports on major national and international sporting events and their impact on cities.
		Mayor Street is married to wife Naomi and has four children.
		This year, as in 2004 and 2005, the World Mayor project is seeking out mayors who have the vision, passion and skills to make their cities amazing places to live in, work in and visit.
	www.citymayors.com /mayors/philadelphia_mayor.html (0 words)

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		Frank Rizzo, the heavy-handed police commissioner of Philadelphia, Pa., who later served as the city's mayor for two consecutive terms, gained national notoriety when he and a number of high-ranking city and police official were charged by the United States Department of Justice with either committing or condoning acts of police brutatlity.
		As mayor, Rizzo continued to support the strong-arm tactics of the police department, and he himself made liberal use of them.
		Rizzo was in the process of staging another bid for the office mayor when he was struck down by an apparent heart attack and died on July 16, 1991.
	www.dsl.psu.edu /civilrights/articles/frankrizzobio.html (0 words)

	Worldandnation: Bugs in Philadelphia mayor's office cause furor
		PHILADELPHIA - Federal law enforcement officials on Wednesday confirmed that listening devices found in the offices of Mayor John F. Street were planted by the FBI - a discovery that touched off a political furor just weeks before Election Day.
		Three federal law enforcement officials, speaking to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that the FBI was responsible for the bug but refused to comment on whether the Democratic mayor is a target of an investigation or to provide any details about the nature of the inquiry.
		Philadelphia police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said he turned the matter over to the FBI.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/10/09/Worldandnation/Bugs_in_Philadelphia_.shtml (0 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Mayors of Philadelphia (including Kensington, Moyamensing, Northern Liberties, Southwark, ...
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	www.politicalgraveyard.com /geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html (0 words)

	Meeting Planners (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With years of experience, state-of-the-art facilities, multicultural heritage, culture, entertainment and lively activity, Philadelphia is prepared to make your meeting or convention a success from start to finish.
		Philadelphia has been the site of numerous prestigious conventions and meetings including the Corporate Council on Africa, the Hispanic National Bar Association, National Urban League, and the Telugu Association of North America.
		In 1987, the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PCVB) started a division which would eventually be called the Multicultural Affairs Congress (MAC), to increase Philadelphia's share of the multicultural convention and tourism markets and to ensure that the multicultural community in the Philadelphia region are an integral part of Philadelphia's growing hospitality industry.
	www.philadelphiamac.org.cob-web.org:8888 /meetingplanners (0 words)

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