Chris Satullo

20 years later, memory of a little girl’s shooting still haunts

Nearly 20 years ago this month, my wife started work as a social worker at Children’s Hospital. On the same day, I joined the Edito ...

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What if your daily performance got analyzed on Baseball Tonight?

Have you hired your personal data analyst yet? The New York Times last week reported on how professional athletes are now hiring p ...

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Auction of Philly papers draws near

Tuesday morning in Philadelphia, the partners who’ve been dueling for control of Interstate General Media will end their squabbling ...

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Who played the villain in last week’s Pa. primaries? The ‘voters’

Last Tuesday, Pennsylvania offered all of its adult citizens a major say in the future of our Commonwealth. And about five out of ...

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Well, Malcolm Gladwell was at least right about tipping points

Malcolm Gladwell wants you to know that everything you think you know about how the world works is probably wrong. Gladwell lives ...

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‘Smart’ handgun a bright idea whose time will never come, if NRA has its way

“Smart” handguns could cut down on a lot of the distressing things that happen when firearms fall into the wrong hands. ...

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The problem with executions is not just the quality of the execution

Last week, the people of Oklahoma tried to kill someone. As you may have heard, they made quite a hash of it. The execution ...

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At a crossroads, can Pa. act like a real commonwealth?

Pennsylvania is crumbling, both literally and figuratively. Pennsylvania has more structurally deficient bridges, both in raw numb ...

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Breaking up with the School Reform Commission will be hard to do

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first grant their wishes. Two out of three Philadelphians want to see an end to the School ...

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Fracking dialogue has been a classic case of nobody listening

Politics are Newtonian. That is, they follow ol’ Isaac’s Third Law of Motion. To wit: For every action there is ...

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The time I nearly OD’d, and the thing that saved me

Narcan is in the news. It’s a drug that counters the effects of an opiod overdose. Since it needs to be injected, it hasn ...

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Moving day tugs at even a Vulcan heart

Last week, my wife and I moved out of the house where we raised our kids. In the busy run-up to the moment when the moving van edg ...

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