Politics & Policy

Professor Terell Stafford, Director of Jazz Studies at the Boyer School of Music and Dance opened the Temple University 2011 Commencement ...

With just days until the primary election, the two candidates in Philadelphia’s 7th District Council race are fighting a familiar b ...

Readers can conclude that I’m in the tank for PBS. It’s not because PBS affiliate WHYY sponsors the site of this blog. It ...

Philadelphia Catholic Church officials have been named in a sixth lawsuit, filed Monday by a group of lawyers on behalf of victims of all ...

With elections come endorsements.  Today Philadelphia’s District Attorney endorsed a City Council candidate: just the latest i ...

Pennsylvania voters will have the opportunity to elect or retain judges this year to the Supreme Court, the Superior Court, and the Commo ...

It’s that time of year. Mother’s Day. It is my 14th since the death of the complicated, mercurial woman who brought me into this worl ...

In response to my post earlier today on this subject, “Don” writes: ” I think your blog post would be a lot stronger i ...

With the primary election just over a week away, candidates are trying to dig up a few more votes.  This year council races in Phila ...

The earned income tax credit (EITC) is a refundable tax credit for qualifying low-income taxpayers, in effect a transfer of wealth to the ...

Public schools in both the city of Philadelphia and my home state of Delaware have been fighting uphill battles to improve student outcom ...

With the Pennsylvania primary just two weeks away, the fight is getting nasty in one Philadelphia City Council race. Seventh Distr ...

Nearly 10 years ago in the wake of the horrifying terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, nearly all Americans agreed with the New York ...

Now it’s called “mission creep”. In Vietnam it was called “escalation”, the process by which war for limit ...

I had the privilege the other day of a moderating a ...