Politics & Policy
Pa. House panel to weigh Kane impeachment plan
A resolution calling for the impeachment of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane campaign is up for review by a legislative commit ...
12 years ago
The problem with executions is not just the quality of the execution
Last week, the people of Oklahoma tried to kill someone. As you may have heard, they made quite a hash of it. The execution ...
12 years ago
ListenAs always, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report for April was rel ...
12 years ago
Where do Dem candidates for Pa. governor stand on energy, fracking?
Pennsylvania remains the only drilling state that doesn’t tax the drillers. As budget deficits sap public education, all four Democ ...
12 years ago
ListenAt a crossroads, can Pa. act like a real commonwealth?
Pennsylvania is crumbling, both literally and figuratively. Pennsylvania has more structurally deficient bridges, both in raw numb ...
12 years ago
ListenWhy did 58k Americans die in the Vietnam War, and 3 million Vietnamese? ‘Embers of War’
The thesis of Fredrik Logevall’s Pulitzer Prize winning history, “Embers of War,” is that the die for the tragedy of th ...
12 years ago
Where do Dem candidates for Pa. governor stand on crime, prisons, and marijuana?
Criminal justice isn’t one of the top issues for Democrats running in this years gubernatorial primary in Pennsylvania, but that ...
12 years ago
ListenBreaking up with the School Reform Commission will be hard to do
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first grant their wishes. Two out of three Philadelphians want to see an end to the School ...
12 years ago
ListenNutter’s executive order on ICE detainers will put more violent criminal aliens on Philly’s streets
When Arizona tried to enforce its own standards on illegal immigration, that state was told immigration is exclusively a federal matter. ...
12 years ago
Asian American voters not getting language help at Philly polls, complaint says
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund has filed a complaint against the City Board of Commissioners over what it says ...
12 years ago
Philly police will no longer hold immigrants on behalf of ICE
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has publicly signed an executive order that the city will no longer keep immigrants in police custody a ...
12 years ago
McCord wants to nearly triple Pa. spending on early education
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob McCord stopped by a Philadelphia nursery school on Wednesday to stress Pennsylvania’s need f ...
12 years ago
Fracking dialogue has been a classic case of nobody listening
Politics are Newtonian. That is, they follow ol’ Isaac’s Third Law of Motion. To wit: For every action there is ...
12 years ago