The Next Mayor | Issues Forums | Ethics

The Next Mayor project is an innovative, two-year multimedia partnership to focus on the issues - not just the personalities - leading to the 2007 Philadelphia mayor's race. It was created by the Daily News, WHYY and the Committee of Seventy.

We took what we what we learned from our travels around the region and identified 16 different issues that are important to the people of Greater Philadelphia. Tune in as we convene panels of experts to talk about those issues. They'll let us know how other cities are tackling those same problems and they'll make suggestions to the next mayor.

From the corrupt and contented city government that Lincoln Steffens described 100 hundred years ago to the more recent pay-to-play scandal, Philadelphia politics has a long and storied tradition of ethical lapses. Several of our The Next Mayor Community Forums and independent polls taken during the campaign indicated that the residents of the Greater Philadelphia region are fed up with it. They want the next mayor to restore trust and confidence in the government but aren't exactly sure how he can do that. We talk to the experts for suggestions.

Zack Stalberg is President and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, the city's leading good government advocate and election watchdog. Joe McLaughlin is a senior fellow at Temple University's Institute for Public Affairs and a longtime government official. Stella Tsai is an attorney and member of the recently-created Philadelphia Ethics Board. Norma Van Dyke is with the group Philadelphia United to Restore Ethics (PURE).

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[SSReichfurher]

As long as blacks and Democrats are running this town it will slide downward in a morass of corruption and unending scandal.