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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray pitches soda tax. Wonder where he got that idea from?

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Feb 21 2017  ·  1:20 pm
Feb 21 2017  ·  1:20 pm
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    • Inside the TV ad war between pro- and anti-soda tax forces
    • Soda tax ‘killing’ corner stores that rely on summer sales
    • June soda tax totals were $6.9M, still placing Philly under its revised projections
    • Soda tax backers get a cash-rich ally again: Michael Bloomberg’s blitzing Philly media with ads
    • Big Soda appeals the Philly beverage tax to the PA Supreme Court
    • Philly soda tax fans shut down Senate committee hearing with vuvuzelas, chants
    • Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court upholds Philly soda tax
    • Philly admits it will earn less money from the soda tax than it planned
    • In food & bev industry, wage taxes up over last year, suggesting soda tax has had little effect on jobs
    • Soda tax revenue comes in under projections for April
    • Speculation: Will ABA and the anti-soda-tax crowd put money behind a Butkovitz bid to unseat Kenney as mayor?
    • The American Beverage Association has spent more than $2M on lobbying efforts in Philly since July
    • Coke: The Philly soda tax has cost us 40 local jobs
    • Philly soda tax revenue way up in March
    • Dr. Physick soda creator, whose ancestors hung with the Founding Fathers, is worried about the soda tax
    • McDonald’s ad bears a soda tax reminder
    • What happened after Berkeley’s soda tax, and what it means for Philadelphia
    • The Philly soda tax had a big day in court today… in Pittsburgh (naturally?)
    • The soda tax will be argued in the Commonwealth Court today
    • Philly’s independent grocery stores: The soda tax is killing us
    • The Philly soda tax brought in $6.4M in February, putting the city on track to meet its goal
    • Philly soda tax: Pepsi tells grocery stores it won’t offer 2-liters or 12-packs
    • After pissing off the Kenney administration over raising meal plan prices b/c soda tax, Temple will reconsider
    • Board rates at Temple are going up almost 5 percent, and the university is blaming the city’s soda tax
    • Philly gets support in soda tax lawsuit from Berkeley and the American Heart Association
    • Pepsi says it will lay off up to 100 workers at 3 Philly plants, and they’re blaming the soda tax
    • After criticism from Council, the Mayor’s Office is adjusting its soda-tax-funded Rebuild program
    • Mayor Kenney wants to recruit technical high school grads to work as part of the Rebuild program
    • Philly soda tax impact: We drank about 40 percent less in January
    • Philly soda tax earns $5.7 million in first month

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