Opinion & Essay

In an agreement both parties are calling historic, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has committed to use union labor on city-funded cons ...

New Jersey officials have finalized the rules governing a program to dispense medical marijuana to chronically ill patients, but the stat ...

At first glance, it’s hard to understand why the New Hampshire Union Leader’s endorsement of Newt Gingrich is being taken so ...

Tom MacDonald reported yesterday on a Philadelphia City Council hearing to explore prayer in the public schools. The council took no ...

Do Pennsylvania legislators deserve $82,000 a year when Texas legislators get $7,200? It’s kind of a trick question, since y ...

Philadelphia beats the national average of teens in grades 9-12 in rates of obesity and lack of exercise. Every one of those kids ha ...

The Eagles’ latest embarrassing loss on Sunday, 38-20 to the New England Patriots, left the team with a 4-7 record for the season a ...

Tom Wicker, the retired New York Times columnist who died on Friday, frequently assailed the artificial constraints of “objective ...

It’s a clever ad. The new Democratic National Committee spot attacking Mitt Romney features an announcer familiar from movie ...

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