
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 ...
12 years ago
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 ...
12 years ago
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 ...
12 years ago
Philadelphia City Council now has to permit public comment at its regular sessions thanks to a lawsuit based on the state open meetings l ...
12 years ago
Judgment lapse for a Pa. jurist
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 ...
12 years ago
Mayor Bill Green called it the worst legislative body in the free world, and its members have embarrassed themselves and our city at time ...
12 years ago
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 ...
12 years ago
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 ...
12 years ago
A King’s Stammer – and Dolls A film director who keeps a couple hundred inflatable dolls at the ready is my guest on ...
12 years ago
Elvis was there when the newly-accountable Delaware River Port Authority board held an evening meeting last night so the working and toll ...
12 years ago
Is Philadelphia screwed, now that Dwight Evans is out of the leadership in Harrisburg, and the governor is being replaced by a Republican ...
12 years ago
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 ...
12 years ago
Interesting Take on Sarah Palin
Is Sarah Palin the first crowd-sourced candidate? That’s the question explored by Matt Bai in an interesting piece in today’s ...
12 years ago
That dollar toll hike planned for Ben Franklin bridge in July could be postponed, if Electricians’ union leader John Dougherty has ...
12 years ago
Joe Biden’s appearance in Philadelphia today is reason enough to revive the Incomprehensible Politician Watch, in which we flag inscrut ...
12 years ago
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