
Opinion & Essay
Playing with house money – that’s the phrase Chris Christie used at the Committee of Seventy breakfast today to describe the free
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13 years ago
When I was preparing for our election night broadcast, I paid the city $15 to get a complete set of Philadelphia election returns for the
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13 years ago
Grow up, Americans. Stand still for a few seconds at the body scanning machine, then be on your way to the concourse. Put up with the pat
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13 years ago
When Gov. Corbett takes an axe to the state budget in a few months, he will have to take such big sweeping strokes if he really wants to
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13 years ago
Palin’s home state humiliation
Apparently we are doomed this week to endure another round of Palin Peekaboo. The former half-term Alaska governor has a new book –
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13 years ago
Philadelphia City Council now has to permit public comment at its regular sessions thanks to a lawsuit based on the state open meetings l
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13 years ago
Judgment lapse for a Pa. jurist
I knew Ron Castille when he was an assistant district attorney in the 1980’s, and watched him win the DA’s office in 1985 in an amazi
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13 years ago
In the interests of civility, and out of respect for the slaughtered innocents of World War II, would everyone please stop equating every
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13 years ago
Mayor Bill Green called it the worst legislative body in the free world, and its members have embarrassed themselves and our city at time
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13 years ago
If a president’s first duty is provide for the country’s defense, a mayor’s first duty is probably to keep the city financially sec
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13 years ago
Within a few steps of the birthplace of our liberties, the folks who run the Independence Visitors Center are stiffing a citizen of the r
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13 years ago
Just imagine what would happen, politically speaking, if the Senate Democrats ever threatened to block a national-security treaty that ha
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13 years ago
A King’s Stammer – and Dolls
A film director who keeps a couple hundred inflatable dolls at the ready is my guest on
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13 years ago
Elvis was there when the newly-accountable Delaware River Port Authority board held an evening meeting last night so the working and toll
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13 years ago
Is Philadelphia screwed, now that Dwight Evans is out of the leadership in Harrisburg, and the governor is being replaced by a Republican
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13 years ago
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