Dave Davies: Off Mic Archive

Playing with house money – that’s the phrase Chris Christie used at the Committee of Seventy breakfast today to describe the free ...

When I was preparing for our election night broadcast, I paid the city $15 to get a complete set of Philadelphia election returns for the ...

When Gov. Corbett takes an axe to the state budget in a few months, he will have to take such big sweeping strokes if he really wants to ...

Philadelphia City Council now has to permit public comment at its regular sessions thanks to a lawsuit based on the state open meetings l ...

I knew Ron Castille when he was an assistant district attorney in the 1980’s, and watched him win the DA’s office in 1985 in an amazi ...

Mayor Bill Green called it the worst legislative body in the free world, and its members have embarrassed themselves and our city at time ...

If a president’s first duty is provide for the country’s defense, a mayor’s first duty is probably to keep the city financially sec ...

Within a few steps of the birthplace of our liberties, the folks who run the Independence Visitors Center are stiffing a citizen of the r ...

A King’s Stammer – and Dolls   A film director who keeps a couple hundred inflatable dolls at the ready is my guest on ...

Elvis was there when the newly-accountable Delaware River Port Authority board held an evening meeting last night so the working and toll ...

Is Philadelphia screwed, now that Dwight Evans is out of the leadership in Harrisburg, and the governor is being replaced by a Republican ...

Maybe we finally have a chance to privatize Pennsylvania’s state stores and bring us out of the dark ages of alcohol sales. I’m all f ...

Is Sarah Palin the first crowd-sourced candidate? That’s the question explored by Matt Bai in an interesting piece in today’s ...

That dollar toll hike planned for Ben Franklin bridge in July could be postponed, if Electricians’ union leader John Dougherty has ...

Joe Biden’s appearance in Philadelphia today is reason enough to revive the Incomprehensible Politician Watch, in which we flag inscrut ...