Opinion & Essay

The cold-hearted spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and well in the U.S. Senate, which is essentially telling the jobless to buzz off.Am ...

I’ve seen City Council members engage in petty sniping, flagrant self-dealing, even fistfights. But for the past two days I’v ...

Back in September, when we last visited the issue (it should be a non-issue) of open gay service in the military, Senate Republicans were ...

Remember Dan Onorato? Not enough people ever got to know the Democratic nominee for governor of Pennsylvania to give him a chance in Nove ...

Mayor Nutter’s team never got to testify in a City Council hearing Tuesday on far-reaching proposals to overhaul the city’s b ...

  Actually, you’re welcome to say your piece to City Council every Thursday now, as long as you can finish in three minutes. ...

If it were a football game, I’d say Bill Green took an early 7-3 lead over Mayor Nutter in today’s City Council hearing over plans to ...

After many months of pondering, I have come to believe that WikiLeaks maestro Julian Assange is a menace to civilization. Wait, let me am ...

City Council chambers will host a 15-round bout today over an ambitious plan to change the way the city of Philadelphia taxes businesses. ...

Should no public official ever have a private communication? That’s the question raised by the release of a quarter million dipl ...

Those who pay attention to newspaper bylines noticed that the lead story in Sunday’s Inquirer was co-written by  Bill Marimow, who ...

To truly appreciate the increasingly rightward tilt of the GOP – courtesy of tea-party pressure; or, just as importantly, the t ...

Mayor Nutter held his own on the Meet The Press panel this week, occupying the partisan Democratic slot opposite Republican operative Ed ...

Buoyed by their success in the 2010 midterms, Pennsylvania Republicans are now lining up to take on Democratic  U.S. Senator Bob Cas ...

Mayor Nutter will appear on Meet The Press Sunday, we learn from our friend Catherine Lucey at the Daily News blog ...