Marc in the News

The Philadelphia Daily News wrote a story on how the Casino issue has become a great platform from which candidates can run. Marc has been interested in and committed to running for Council At Large long before the Casino issue became a hot topic. This issue is just another example of how ingrained and concerned Marc is with those issues that affect Philadelphian residents.
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Philadelphia Inquirer - The moment to drive a stake through the heart of pay-to-play. To create a politics worthy of the city's promise, not enslaved to its corrupt and contented past. The moment to choose leaders who will govern for the good of the whole, not the interests of the narrow tribe. To begin running the city as though its citizens, not the players and the pols, were the ones who mattered. A moment to nurture diversity, not exploit it as a bloody wedge....
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Philadelphia Daily News - At last glance, taking partial credit for Kenney's change of heart were the Young Philly Politics blog, Philadelphia Forward, the Committee of Seventy, mayoral candidate Michael Nutter, Council at-large candidate Marc Stier and a few others we've overlooked....

As counter intuitive and oxymoronic as it may seem, there was an organized group of Democrats in City Hall yesterday. Councilman Jim Kenney's legislation proposing, under certain circumstances, a rollback of campaign contribution limits brought candidates out to protest.
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Philadelphia Inquirer - If there is such a thing as a reform movement in Philadelphia politics, it showed up yesterday on the 4th floor of City Hall, a stone's throw from City Council chambers.

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Philadelphia Inquirer - I'm going to try to make it the pay-raise issue of Philadelphia," said Marc Stier, a founder of the liberal Neighborhood Networks group and at-large candidate for Council. He was referring to the populist uprising against state legislators last year ...

Philadelphia Daily News - Some people are wondering if this issue could become Philadelphia's pay-raise scandal," said activist and at-large Council candidate Marc Stier, referring to the pay-raise issue that led to the ousting last year of dozens of state House and Senate ...

January 25, 2007 Metro Philadelphia - When Marc Stier looked at the “Next Great City” report to be released today by PennFuture, it jumped out at him that a reported 21 percent of city homeowners have experienced some flooding in the last year, mainly because of an outdated sewer system.

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November 15, 2006
Op-Ed by Marc Stier & Daniel Hunter in Daily News
COUNCIL MEMBERS Clarke, Goode, DiCicco, Ramos, Reynolds Brown, Blackwell and Miller recently introduced legislation to bring "inclusionary housing" to Philadelphia just a few months after advocates first raised the issue. But the question is whether their legislation goes far enough in serving the Philadelphians who are suffering the most from our affordable housing crisis....