It was 1974. Future Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney needed to talk to a politician for a high school paper. Then-U.S. Sen. Joe Biden was happy to help. Kenney never forgot it. But that didn't stop him from endorsing U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president instead of Biden.

Ciangalini is outgunned against Mayor Jim Kenney, but apparently someone with a City Hall number rang him up and called him a phrase we can't repeat here.

The Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council is launching a legal defense fund for Dougherty, who is fighting a federal indictment.

Also, Sherrie Cohen is back on the general election ballot for City Council at-large, thanks to a court ruling.

Agents from the AG's office have been visiting ward leaders in the 190th District of the state House, asking about campaign checks issued in the special election won by State Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell.

Rochelle Bilal, the lone candidate for sheriff in Philadelphia, is throwing a going-to-prison fundraiser Saturday for former Sheriff John Green, who reports to federal prison Monday to serve a five-year term for corruption while in office. But Green won't be there.

Rendell went after Warren, in defense of Biden and his fundraising, in a Washington Post opinion article. Meanwhile, the AFL-CIO in Philadelphia is still waiting to hear whether Biden will show up for its presidential forum Tuesday.

The president’s son described decamping from Manhattan at age 12 — where he lived in a tower topped with the family name — to learn the ways of the working class in the borough in Montgomery County’s northwest corner.

Remember Rasheen Crews? The controversial political consultant, accused of forging signatures on petitions for judicial candidates in the primary that forced several to drop out, is back and telling people about his next big job.

A team connected to Soros has created a political action committee to spend money in statewide and local races.

Tucker Carlson sent a crew from his Fox News show to Philly this week to interview U.S. Attorney William McSwain about Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. McSwain has trash-talked Krasner on Carlson's show before and plans to do so when the television host returns from vacation.

He created the popular political column Clout, edited the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of police corruption, and shepherded the careers of countless journalists.

Also, Krasner says his staff calls “war criminals” those assistant prosecutors who left rather than work under a progressive boss, and slams former Vice President Joe Biden.