
Opinion & Essay
Review: In Broadway’s ‘Orphans,’ brothers and the City of Brotherly Love
“Orphans,” a gripping play that opened Thursday night on Broadway, is about brothers — and it’s full of the City ...
12 years ago
Gun reform debacle: A win for the ‘weaponocracy’
What a pathetic farce yesterday – and so tiresomely predictable. In fact, I predicted it last December – not because I’ ...
12 years ago
Fumo affecting property tax reform
As Philadelphia City Council members consider how to provide relief to homeowners in gentrifying neighborhoods as the city moves to a mar ...
12 years ago
Running is my therapy, it’s my drug and, more than anything, it is my friend. And so I had ...
12 years ago
Boston bombing: A blast from the past
The Boston bombing has jarred my memories of living in London in the early ’90s. It’s a cliche to say that peop ...
12 years ago
Saidel out, Boyle up, Margolies likely in congressional scrum
Seems like I just hung up the phone after listening to former City Controller Jonathan Saidel tell me what great prospects he had for win ...
12 years ago
Trade freedom for security? In times of tragedy and confusion, yes.
As images on CNN transitioned from a yellowish haze with billowing smoke to soot-covered people being wheeled away — with bones stickin ...
12 years ago
Take a moment to laugh — with Pat Toomey
If you need a break from contemplating the tragedy in Boston, there’s this: The crew at Saturday Night Live spoofed U.S. Sen ...
12 years ago
Boston bombs prompt Twitter toxicity
Shortly after Boston’s annual idyll devolved into mayhem, I posted a tweet. “Worst thing: People died…Second worst thin ...
12 years ago
Missed connections with Jesus, from a Girard Avenue strip club to the King of Prussia Mall
I first visited Kensington during the winter of 1992. I didn’t want to be there. I remember stepping out of a white van with ...
12 years ago
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