Politics & Policy
Palin a no-show in Philly, but tongues wag anyway
Was she coming, or not? Rumors floated around the Web and across Philadelphia that Sarah Palin’s hyped bus tour would visit the cit
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12 years ago
Pa. congressman bars audio, video at town meetings
Lou Barletta, a Northeastern Pennsylvania congressman, says constituents, but not their cameras or audio recorders, are welcome at his to
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12 years ago
Thoughts on a 40th college reunion at Oberlin: What happens when people stop reading newspapers?
Suppose you were invited to a party, with no guarantee that anyone you know was going to be there, but with a guarantee that you would ha
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12 years ago
Empty words don’t fill classrooms with learning
The kids are our future.
If we had a nickel for every time a politician has intoned that cliché, we could close the fisc
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12 years ago
The Grand Piano Extravaganza at Oberlin
Most people in the world will never have the opportunity to experience the Grand Piano Extravaganza at Oberlin. The best they will be ab
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12 years ago
No, it wasn’t “SB 1070”, the other Arizona statute challenged by the Obama administration, for which appeal is still pe
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12 years ago
Why U.S. aid to Pakistan should continue.
For some Americans the failure of the government of Pakistan to detect the terrorist Osama Bin Laden living in suburban comfort in a mili
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12 years ago
What’s N.J. Governor Chris Christie running for?
Less than 18 months before the next national election, the Republicans lack a frontrunner or anyone who can excite the Republican base as
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12 years ago
Corbett offers rationale for opposing gas industry tax
Could taxing the companies that are extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania scare pharmaceutical companies out of
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12 years ago
Is GOP race for Philadelphia Mayor finally over?
With about 50 registered Republican provisional ballots still to count, Philadelphia mayoral candidate Karen Brown has a 58 vote lead, in
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12 years ago
The current U.S. legal immigration system is the most generous (and most complicated) in the world, providing to immigrants each year mor
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12 years ago
End the stupid, discriminatory, and fraud-prone diversity immigrant green card visa lottery!
The U.S. State Department announced this week
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12 years ago
Fattah soon to have three proteges on Philadelphia City Council
It’s been widely noted that Tuesday’s primary election in Philadelphia brought a rise in influence for the electricians’
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12 years ago