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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the span of 14 weeks, Philly and the world lost two heroes. Edward “Babe” Heffron and William “Wild Bill” Guarnere — World War II […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Guilt. And contempt. Those are the two feelings that competed for my attention on Tuesday upon finding out the “SEPTA Mom” — she of the […]
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 […]
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 […]