Why do the candidates in Pennsylvania's attorney general race have so much to say about Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner? Plus, the history of Phillies Franks.
District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks in front of press and community members about the recent shooting at an Eid al-Fitr event that left three people injured in Philadelphia.
“Philly’s progressive DA has consistently been mentioned on the campaign trail among the five Democrats and two Republicans hoping to get their party’s nomination in the April 23 primary election,” McGoldrick told me. “The relationship between Krasner and Gov. Josh Shapiro, who are both Democrats, was strained when Shapiro was attorney general. And whoever is the next AG will need to work with Krasner and the other 66 district attorneys across the state.”.
Dozens of protesters blocked traffic across Center City Monday morning during a spate of coordinated demonstrations that called for an end to the war in Gaza.Pennsylvania saw a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents in 2023 amid a nationwide surge fueled by the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, See, Medford Meats — founded in 1864 in Frankford, later bought by Hatfield — supplied the Phillies with hot dogs once The Vet opened in 1971, and produced a whopping 300,000 dogs per day during the baseball season. A doomed cost-cutting measure changed that for two terrible years.
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