Opinion

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Trump’s Election Was a Bomb Dropped on a Calm Neighborhood

Almost exactly ten years after my family had left Guatemala — a country mired in a horrifically violent and bloody 36-year undeclared war waged by […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The New Wawa Opened

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I Took on the PPA and Won — and It Might Be Worth Millions to Philly Drivers

If you hate the robbers known as the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) and its conspiratorial kangaroo court known as the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication (BAA) […]

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How to Be a True Ally in Trump’s America

Who would have ever imagined living in a world where images of safety pins would be tacked onto buildings? Walking past Metropolitan Cafe in University […]

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Could the 2016 SEPTA Strike Be the Last One Ever?

Now that Transport Workers Union Local 234 has ratified a new, five-year contract that was pretty much what SEPTA had offered it on the eve […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Raging Bull!

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Enough With the Free Turkeys, Politicians — Get Serious About Reducing Poverty

The older I get, the more I realize that for all of the progress Philadelphia prides itself on, there is still so much that needs […]

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Pa. Senators: Defend American Greatness By Rejecting These Two Trump Picks

Dear Senators Toomey and Casey, We’ve got to talk — youngish Baby Boomer to youngish Baby Boomer, Catholic to Catholic, Pennsylvania voter to Pennsylvania legislators. […]

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To Resist Trump, Fix Philly’s Elite, Boring, Anti-Competitive Democratic Party

Philadelphia’s Democratic Party suffers from the same cancer as the national Democratic Party. Only it’s arguably much more advanced. Think the Democratic National Committee favored […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: A Hot-Air Balloon Landed in Kensington

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Trump’s Victory Has Me Considering Gun Ownership

Another day, another incident. Across Philadelphia and around the nation, you can’t help but notice that marginalized people — whether Muslim or of color, LGBTQ […]

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How We Became Me

When I was in grade school, I was a Girl Scout. To be in the Girl Scouts, you had to buy a uniform. You went […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Pundits Were Wrong

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White Men Must Bear the Blame — and Shame — for Trump

Let me get this out of the way right off the top: White men in American have it better than everyone else. Anyone who tells […]

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The “Stark” Political Calculus for Philadelphia Latinos

It was supposed to be the election where Latinos flexed our muscle – after all, Donald Trump started taking potshots at us from the day […]