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Welcome to Center City west!This is the city's Ward 8, or Eighth Ward. Its boundaries were established many years ago by the political parties and elecoral commissions. Its extent is from Broad Street to the Schuylkill River, from Lombard Street to Spring Garden Avenue (more or less).
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If you're a member of Philly NN and know of an event that should be posted here, log in to submit an event, or email: . News'RUNNING AGAINST THE MACHINE' City Progressives publicize Party Reforms8th Ward Leader Stephanie Singer, others, interviewed on WHYY 91FM radioBy By Bill Marston LEED AP 8th Ward / 9th Division February 2, 2011 Dave Davies (Daily News, WHYY radio 91FM, www.newsworks.org) did a report about running for office within a political party's organization in Philadelphia. He interviews Marge Trataglione, John Kromer and my own 8th Ward's Stephanie Singer.... Read more... Coming September 25: POW (the Progressive Organizing Workshop).What you'll learn: everything you need to know about beating Republicans, and Keeping Democrats . . . democrats.By Stan Shapiro August 15, 2010 OK, let’s start with first things first. We must defeat the Republicans this Fall. The Republican Party has scuttled all pretenses to moderation, particularly in Pennsylvania. Its candidates for Governor and Senator, Tom Corbett and Pat Toomey, are far to the right of the last Republican holders of those offices, Tom Ridge and Rick Santorum. Yes, that’s right, Pat Toomey is far to the right of Rick Santorum. And Tom Corbett, who claims that the unemployed like being out of work, and that national health care legislation is unconstitutional, thinks taking Pennsylvania back to the 1920’s would be really swell. Read more... 8th WARD RESULTS of May 18 2010 DEMOCRATIC Primary Election
By by Bill Marston LEED AP May 20, 2010 Center City's 8th Ward voting results show that we supported the candidates endorsed by Neighborhood Networks citywide: Joe Hoeffel - governor; Joe Sestak - US senator; Babette Josephs - state representative. We also voted overwhelmingly for Philadelphian Jonathan Saidel for lieutenant governor.... Read more... © 2005-2007 Philadelphia Neighborhood Networks, All Rights Reserved. Site Design by Nancy Brigham; logo design by KC Ellis. Special thanks to Don Engel and D. André Dhondt for the software.
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