Opinion & Essay
In a farewell address 50 years ago tonight, President Dwight Eisenhower
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Know somebody who’s made a difference and ought to get recognized for it?
Nominations for the prestigious Philadelphia Award
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The Kennedys, shrewd authors of their own mythology, have always played hardball with the media. Way back in 1952, when the influential B
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I can’t get enough of the Montgomery County
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Sarah Palin was blessedly silent for four successive days in the wake of the Arizona shootings, but, alas, all good things must come to a
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I was working at the Philadelphia Daily News when the company filed for bankruptcy, and I was there when an earlier corporate parent, Kni
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Former city housing director John Kromer announces his candidacy for Philadelphia sheriff today, running on a platform of abolishing the
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In Arizona tonight, Barack Obama’s healer-in-chief speech may well sound something like this: “Today is a day for mourning an
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Granted, it’s the gun lobby’s world, and we only live in it – and sometimes, as in the case of the Arizona shootings, w
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A United States Senator who lacks the guts to stand up for his or her position has blocked a bill in Congress that would protect governme
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The digital beyond and the meaning of Tucson
If you died next week, what would become of all the stuff in your Facebook account, your Yahoo e-mail, or the photos you have on Flickr?
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It wasn’t a full bore, heavy-lava flow Mount Rendell eruption on Sixty Minutes last night, but there was enough smoke and ash that
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I wasn’t surprised to learn this weekend that a member of Congress had been shot in the head by a would-be assassin, nor was I surp
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For the last several years I worked at the Daily News, I would occasionally receive poems and jokes lampooning Philly politics. At first
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As we ease into the silly season of speculation about the 2012 presidential race – Donald “The Donald” Trump
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