Opinion & Essay

One thing Ed Rendell brought us was casinos, making Pennsylvania one of 40 states that have embraced slots or tables. I’ve a ...

Some aspects of politics are universal. The players always change, but the same conflicts – insiders versus outsiders, principle ve ...

Did you hear about Gov. Rendell scolding Democrats for being so partisan? In our own Scott Detrow’s ...

For sheer brio, nothing beats the conservative message machine. Ever since federal judge Henry Hudson ruled Monday in Virginia that a key ...

Suppose City Council passed a law saying you can’t close your business unless you give the city two weeks notice? Well, they ...

Mayor Nutter and Council members Bill Green and Maria Quinones-Sanchez have agreed to take a breath and re-consider their differences in ...

The death of legendary diplomat Richard Holbrooke will barely register on the national consciousness. After all, he spent his long and pe ...

I’ve been saying since the 2008 World Series that the Phillies won back-to-back championships, because we beat every team we played in ...

Veteran Philadelphia political operative Pete Truman won’t go to jail after all. Even though he pled guilty to tax evasion last ...

A precious moment from this year’s Pennsylvania Society weekend came Friday night when Mayor Nutter was chatting with reporters in the ...

The Nixon White House is our perpetually open sewer, forever disgorging its waste matter. Every few years, the National Archives releases ...

  After another day of pol-watching at the Pennsylvania Society weekend: The most intriguing guest at Mayor Nutter’s fun ...

I made the trek to New York on the Bolt Bus to hang around events at the Pennsylvania Society, the annual gathering of the Keystone State ...

Whatever happened to the Republicans’ reverence for the heroes of 9/11?  In political news, the most common headline begins wi ...

While Pennsylvania’s political elite trek to New York for drinks, food and power talk at the annual Pennsylvania Society Weekend, I wan ...