Topic: Michael Nutter

The fiery ex-mayors shared important lessons for successfully leading American cities at our annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival. For starters: You have to take care of the basics.

Can Philly’s Innovation Management group make “bureaucrat” a synonym for “problem-solver” in City Hall, one employee at a time?

Eagles coaches have long mirrored the Philly political eras in which they worked. What does that mean today?

A former Nutter administration policy nerd has — not surprisingly — drafted an action plan for the city with depth and clarity. The next in an ongoing series wonders, will it matter?

Mayor Kenney seems more committed to the soda tax than to the programs it was meant to fund. Why?

Michael Nutter has written a book that raises an important question: Why?

What do Tom Wolf, Kathleen Kane and Donald Trump have in common? None are practitioners of the art of politics. Enough with on-the-job trainees

In two years, the city eradicated a shameful trend. Here’s how we did it.

Marc Vetri elaborates on what many were thinking: Did we really need to become a ghost town to host the Pope?