Opinion & Essay

A free-for-for all is taking shape in Philadelphia’s first Councilmanic district (that’s South Philly and center city east of ...

The pace of events in Egypt continues to accelerate, and the White House keeps scrambling to stay apace. A mere eight days ago, Secretary ...

Don’t you just have to know when Mike Huckabee hires a new campaign scheduler, and what Mitt Romney says on his 54th visit to Iowa, ...

This might be a first in my endless decades of political reporting: A campaign announces it’s holding a fundraiser in a press relea ...

Nobody was shocked yesterday when a conservative federal judge, tapped for the bench by Ronald Reagan, struck down the health care reform ...

When Michael Nutter emerged from a pack of five Democrats to win the mayor’s office in 2007, one of the big reasons was his determi ...

While everyone is busy dispensing advice about how Washington should respond to the crisis in Egypt, I am reminded of what famed screenwr ...

Once in a while a local story gets hyped to the point that it’s practically unrecognizable to anybody close to the actual events. ...

On Wednesday, a 39-year old former city clerk named Kelly Kaufman Layre was sentenced to two years in prison for illegally selling city t ...

Warning: This is not a sexy story. Legislative procedure is never sexy.But it’s worth noting what didn’t happen this week in the scer ...

Just how worried should an incumbent City Council member be when his opponent pops up in the Washington Post? I’m not sure, ...

Sick of the State of the Union coverage? Me too. So many good stories were ignored this week. For instance this little gem, which further ...

What if Michael Nutter created a Mayor’s Office of Political Affairs so a couple of senior aides could do political work on city ti ...

Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech should finally obliterate the right-wing canard about his purported devotion to “soc ...

When Ed Rendell was running for governor, he said it would be wrong for him to do exactly what he’s now doing – returning to the ...