Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Nobody knows better than Mayor Nutter the seething recriminations that follow soaring expectations in this city. Except maybe the Philadelphia Eagles.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Mayor Nutter is seeking sweeping concessions on salary, work rules, health care and pension benefits in early contract negotiations with the city's police and fire unions.
ThinkingShift (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
I am nominating someone for the ThinkingShift 2009 idiot of the year award. And this person has an apt name - Mayor Michael Nutter. And a nutter this dude appears to be. He is the Mayor of Philadelphia and wants to contribute to the dumbing-down of contemporary society. He (wait for it) wants to close [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mayor Nutter today will ask a Common Pleas judge to reconsider her ruling that the administration can't close 11 libraries without City Council approval.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
As The Inquirer reported last week, Mayor Nutter met privately with the chairman of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association before the city's budget crisis fully emerged and agreed to send the orchestra an unscheduled $250,000 grant. The unusual move appeared to subvert the typical rules governing equitable city funding of the arts.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mayor Nutter stood at the center of a hot and cramped room at the Kingsessing Recreation Center three weeks ago, repeatedly interrupted by hissing, booing and foot-stomping as he pleaded his case.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
All city libraries will face cuts in their hours of operation unless a judge reconsiders an order forbidding the closing of 11 branches, Mayor Nutter said yesterday.
Overheard.it (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
"you can tell a nutter, they wear winter clothes in summer"
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
All city libraries will face cuts in their hours of operation unless a judge reconsiders an order forbidding the closing of 11 branches, Mayor Nutter said yesterday.
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
The tendency not to want to believe in mental illness festers across the Western world, and particularly in Britain, the nation that gave us Shakespeare, concentration camps and the stiff upper lip. From the friends and families of sufferers to the upper echelons of government, the suspicion that mental health difficulties are forms of weakness [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Philadelphia City Solicitor Shelley Smith will await a written legal ruling in the hotly contested library-closings case before the city files its formal notice of appeal, Mayor Nutter said yesterday.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
With homicides down 15 percent and violent crime off 3 percent from last year, Mayor Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey yesterday declared their anticrime initiatives a success despite falling short of lofty goals set in January.
Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Philadelphia Inquirer - “The city hopes to transfer management of 11 library branches scheduled to be closed in less than three days to private foundations, wealthy individuals, companies and community development corporations, Mayor Nutter said in a press conference today.”
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
... seize the chance to go on to higher education. Mr Patten had described Professor Brighouse as a “nutter” who roamed the streets frightening little children. ‘)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Seven Fire Department companies were closed and 130 firefighters reassigned to other parts of the city yesterday as part of Mayor Nutter's budget cuts.
