In fact, if we all try hard enough, we can envision an end to the decline in the city’s fortunes and a revival of political integrity and civic activism.This election could offer proof that there is a constituency for a Philadelphia that is neither corrupt nor contented. That we can be a city that draws new people and new jobs, an ancient urban place that is still brimming with vitality — with more to come. Hope is a fragile thing, but it’s out there, in the neighborhoods in the suddenly crowded streets of Center City, among the new and old […]

ALL SIX MEN arrested in an alleged plot to massacre soldiers at the Fort Dix Army base in South Jersey were ordered held without bail yesterday at a hearing in federal court in Camden. U.S. Magistrate Joel Schneider said the men posed a danger to the community and might flee if released. DAILY NEWS: Judge Says ‘Bail? No Fuckin’ Way!’ SAY CHEESE: Unidentified man attacks Daily News photographer Alejandro Alvarez outside Federal Courthouse in Camden, yesterday.

LATROBE, PA — The normally tranquil campus in the lush hills of western Pennsylvania has been riveted by a lively discussion over whether the choice of Bush as graduation speaker was appropriate in light of the school’s peaceful Benedictine traditions and the president’s policy in Iraq. Ronny Menzie chose to join a protest on the road to the college instead of standing with her fellow graduates. “I didn’t finish my thesis because I didn’t want my graduation with him,” said Menzie, 35, a philosophy major. “I think it’s a blight, an embarrassment on a Catholic college.” Some 30 current and […]