Opinion & Essay

“This case is about money, power and influence,” Philadelphia Ethics Board executive director Shane Creamer told me Friday. ...

It was an eventful week in the Philadelphia mayor’s race. As millionaire candidate Tom Knox dropped out, the ever-alert Catherine L ...

As recently as 2004, gay marriage was a divis ...

Some people are afraid of spiders. Some hate bats. After spending too many years as a city policy wonk, different things make the ...

Harry Reid has taken a firm stand against hookers. This may not be the weightiest news item of the week – given all the uprisings f ...

It was about as close to a good bar fight as government policy wonks will get. Yesterday the city Board of Ethics invited public c ...

My advice to the AWOL Democratic lawmakers who have fled Wisconsin and Indiana: Go home and do your job. As you surely know by now ...

If you subscribe to a newspaper, do you think you should have to pay to access the online version? The new owners of the Inquirer and Dai ...

Businessman Tom Knox told Mayor Nutter last Friday that he was bowing out of the 2011 mayor’s race and planning to endorse the incumben ...

Chris (“I don’t gotta be nice to you”) Christie appears to be the Republicans’ flavor of the month. There hasn ...

Businessman Tom Knox will abandon his plans to run for mayor and announce his support for Mayor Nutter today, a source familiar with his ...

Let’s not kid ourselves about what’s really happening right now in Wisconsin. The new Republican governor’s bold bid to ...

The once and maybe-again mayoral candidate Tom Knox says he’ll have an announcement next week, and a “surprise” is in s ...

Behold what can happen when the plunderers are permitted to roam free. Behold the spectacle of a political party working at cross purpose ...

Behold what can happen when the plunderers are permitted to roam free. Behold the spectacle of a political party working at cross purpose ...