
Opinion & Essay
Former Republican mayoral candidate Sam Katz has changed his voter registration to unaffiliated, positioning him to run as an independent ...
10 years ago
Reviews: ‘Mothers and Sons’ — and Everyone’s a Critic
Accompanying Howard Shapiro’s review, we also present the reviews of three audience members who attended Wednesday’s ope ...
10 years ago
Bob Simon: ‘A reporter’s reporter’
I’ll tell you a little story about Bob Simon, the veteran CBS News correspondent who was ...
10 years ago
Knives come out in Philly mayor’s race
When Tom Wolf ran for governor of Pennsylvania last year, he was blessed to have never sponsored a bill or cast a legislative vote. ...
10 years ago
Sweet home Alabama: State’s rights and constitutional wrongs
There’s an old joke that Pennsylvania is a state with two big cities and “Alabama” in between. Perish the though ...
10 years ago
Speaking of lies, check out Scott Walker’s whopper
The Brian Williams brouhaha shouldn’t blind us to the other blatant lies currently in circulation. Lest we forget, February’s ...
10 years ago
Can $35 million buy the Philadelphia School District?
Is the Philadelphia School District for sale? That seems to be the central question facing taxpayers in the wake of a $35 million ...
10 years ago
ListenPSP-related political committee gives to Williams’ campaign
The Philadelphia School Partnership, the nonprofit that last week offered the school district $25 million to expand charter schools, now ...
10 years ago
ListenBrian Williams and the lame “false memory” defense
Since Brian Williams is still the topic du jour, I’ll weigh in with the material that fell outside the purview of my Frida ...
10 years ago
The not-quite-white lies of a Syrian-American
"So what are you, anyway?" — It's a question I dread. I'm third generation Syrian-American, and there are reasons why I've never been vocal about it.
10 years ago
School official runs PAC once associated with Williams
How weird is this? The political committee formed early in 2013 to support the exploratory effort of mayoral candidate State Sen. Anthony ...
10 years ago
Brian and Hillary swap war stories
“I thought I had the beach to myself!” Hillary Clinton yelled, smiling in delight at the guy trudging her way, his famous fac ...
10 years ago
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