Politics & Policy
“Cash for diabetic test strips”
That’s what the bright yellow signs say stuck up illegally on telephone poles in the North Philadelphia neighborhoods around Temple ...
10 years ago
City ethics board fines, fires two Council employees for political work
Two Philadelphia City Council staff members will lose their jobs and pay fines after city Ethics Board investigators caught them doing po ...
10 years ago
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Arizona’s appeal of SB1070 immigration law. Kagan recuses.
The big news this morning is that the U.S. Supreme Court has grant ...
10 years ago
Will it be the (tax) holiday season in D.C.?
Here’s the opening sentence I had planned for this post: Good politics sometimes makes bad policy. My topic is the ex ...
10 years ago
Michael Lewis’s amusing stories from the financial collapse
Michael Lewis wrote Moneyball and The Blind Side, both of which have been made into blockbuster hit movies. He also wrote The Big Short, ...
10 years ago
Despite recession and high gas prices, why do Americans still love their gas-guzzling SUVs?
Is there another country in the world as fond of gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles and pick-up trucks as the good old U.S.A.? They ...
10 years ago
Pa. lawmakers, veterans’ advocates join forces to get more vets working
Pennsylvania lawmakers and advocates for veterans met Thursday for a state Senate Democratic Policy Committee round-table discussion of h ...
10 years ago