I spend a lot of time writing and thinking (and worrying) about the challenges that Latinxs face in our city. There are lots of those: […]
You would have thought Pennsylvania was still a blue state the way our city’s Democrats were partying this weekend. The Pennsylvania Society dinner, for which […]
The people that I work for tell me that they’re really happy with my job performance. I get good reviews. They’re flexible with my often […]
The news from last weekend was grim. Nine people, ranging in age from 20 to 40, died of drug overdoses. They included Victor Colon, a […]
Last week, Mayor Jim Kenney put up a blockade between his office and the press regarding what has turned out to be one of his […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
