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This Week's Issue
The Inscrutable Nutter
The mayor talks about his first two years in office, and what 2010 holds.
by Isaiah Thompson
On Dec. 22, City Paper sat down with the mayor for a brief Q&A. Nutter was polite, of course, but inscrutable as ever.

The Bell Curve
City Paper's Quality-o-Life-o-Meter
When news breaks in Philadelphia, we make jokes.

A Million Stories
2009 in Review, in 763 words.
In lieu of actual work, we decided instead to use this space for a trip down memory lane, a recap of those things from 2009 that we choose to remember, or would like to forget.

Smarty Pants:
Escalator to Hell
Good money after bad.
by David Faris
Why would Obama, with such an ambitious domestic-policy agenda at stake, choose to sacrifice his presidency at the altar of Afghanistan?

Man Overboard!:
An Homage
by Isaiah Thompson
I was meditating on something else now: how much I loved this great, insane city and all the great, insane people who call it home.

Sports:
Awards Show, Part 2!
by E. James Beale
Editor's note: Last week, E. James Beale kicked off the First-Ever (Possibly Annual, But Maybe Not) Sports Complex Awards. This week, the thrilling conclusion.

 
 
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