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Andrew Biddle Surfaces, David Carr Passes, DNC 2016 $85 Million Pledge

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 02/13/15 10:17 am | updated: 02/13/15 10:17 am

For months police have wondered whether Andrew Biddle, the missing boater from this past summer in Longport was dead or alive. He's alive, and turned himself into police yesterday. The Egg Harbor Township man was wanted for allegedly staging a boating accident and disappearing in order to escape criminal charges. Biddle and his business partner were being investigated for fraudulent boat sales.

Media columnist David Carr, who wrote the Media Equation column for The New York Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction, collapsed at his office and died on Thursday. He was 58. Just hours before his death he had moderated a â€œTimes Talksâ€ conversation with Edward Snowden, director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald about the documentary â€œCitizenfour,â€ which chronicles Snowdenâ€™s leak of National Security Agency documents. Carr, also wrote â€œThe Night of the Gun,â€ a 2008 memoir about addiction and recovery.

A major factor in winning the 2016 Democratic National Convention bid was the cityâ€™s pledge to raise $85 million to stage it. That will be a challenge, especially coming on the heels of fundraising for the Popeâ€™s visit this fall. Comcast executive vice president David Cohen, the senior advisor to the cityâ€™s convention team says national companies will seek the promotional opportunity of the convention and give, but he says the cityâ€™s real advantage is supportive local leaders. This is the same pitch the Archdiocese is making for the World Meeting of Families. Blue Cross president Dan Hilferty is leading that fundraising effort but was also part of the convention bid team, and he thinks plenty of people will support both.

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