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Gen Y to Boomers: You Taught Us to Be “Flaky Dreamers”

Bitching about an up-and-coming generation is nothing new. And now it’s Gen Y’s turn to bear the brunt of the complaining. We have been dubbed […]

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How to Thank Philadelphia Principals for Their Pay Cut? Let Them Do Their Jobs.

This week, and by an overwhelming 83% margin, the union representing Philadelphia’s high school principals agreed to enormous pay cuts, a 10-month work year, and […]

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Should Government Provide Services … or Jobs?

Quick question: What’s government for, anyway? There are lots of answers to that question, of course, but for the sake of argument, let’s boil it […]

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Cheer Up: Winter’s Almost Over. And Next Year’s Might Not Be So Bad

The latest iteration of FiveThirtyEight, baseball and politics geek Nate Silver’s quantitative journalism site, launched yesterday. And, in an article by Matt Lanza on this […]

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After Ukraine, Good Luck Getting Iran to Give Up Nukes

Hardliners in Iran are using America’s impotence in dealing with the crisis in the Ukraine as an example of what happens when you give up […]

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Trigger Warning: This Article Will Offend Those Who Like Trigger Warnings

A few days back, a student at Temple filed a grievance against the university with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office on Civil Rights. The […]

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Fred Phelps Will Likely Die Soon. He Will Not Be Missed.

UPDATE [3/20]: Fred Phelps has passed ORIGINAL: I talked to Fred Phelps just once in my career. The Anti-Defamation League in 2000 had released a […]

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It’s Not Patty, It’s Paddy — St. Patrick if You’re Nasty

In the name of all that is good and holy in this world, please do not order an Irish Car Bomb this weekend. For the […]

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Wild Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron: A Remembrance

In the span of 14 weeks, Philly and the world lost two heroes. Edward “Babe” Heffron and William “Wild Bill” Guarnere — World War II […]

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The One Question That Really Matters About the Proposed PGW Sale

Mayor Michael Nutter’s proposal to sell the city-owned Philadelphia Gas Works to a Connecticut utility holding company for nearly $1.9 billion goes before a skeptical […]

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12 Things You Need to Stop Whining About Now

Got complaints?  Hate your life?  Please stop whining.  I don’t want to hear it.  And I especially don’t want to hear… I don’t feel good. […]

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Would Philly Drivers Stand for a 20 MPH Speed Limit in the City?

Jon Geeting, who we last saw writing about ‘sneckdowns’ on East Passyunk Avenue, recently posted the harrowing map above: All of the city’s pedestrian-related crashes […]

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The Sad Grotesquerie of “People of SEPTA”

Guilt. And contempt. Those are the two feelings that competed for my attention on Tuesday upon finding out the “SEPTA Mom” — she of the […]

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#SEPTAResidency, Or: Writing the Market Frankford Line

I am in the last El car on the way to Upper Darby. I am in the last seat, too, watching the Philadelphia skyline disappear […]

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The Ultimate Philadelphia Klout Ranking

Klout, Inc. was founded in San Francisco in 2009. It measures online influence by using data from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, WordPress and a bunch […]