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How to Deal With the Mummers: 4 Steps Inspired by Your Racist Aunt on Facebook

If you believe the Mummers, things will be different next year. In a press release issued Sunday, parade organizers condemned this year’s antics — including […]

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How Millennials Are Ruining the Workforce

As a boomer, I have a special interest in millennials. It’s the same sort of interest I have in car wrecks: I don’t want to […]

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Who Cares if the New Eagles Coach “Understands the Passion of Our Fans”?

The Eagles are looking for a new coach. This is actually quite a big deal, as it hasn’t happened very often recently. If we ignore […]

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A Modest Proposal to End State Budget Impasse: Fire Half the Pa. Legislature

I’ve got a solution to the ongoing budget crisis in Harrisburg — let’s tear down the General Assembly and start over again. Let’s abolish the […]

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People Are Angry at the 2016 Mummers Parade

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: The Mummers Parade was really offensive this year. Well, okay, don’t stop me. But here’s the deal: This […]

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Missanelli: On Chip Kelly, Jeffrey Lurie Made the Right Move — Finally

​Jeffrey Lurie did the right thing.​ It may have flabbergasted most of us when word came down early Tuesday night that Lurie had fired Chip […]

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The 17 Best Things That Happened This Year, Ranked

17. Kathleen Kane proved that people waste a lot of time trading really stupid emails at work. Of course, she also screwed up the Commonwealth’s […]

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Philadelphia’s Biggest Losers of 2015

Listen. Philadelphia is a great city. We love and adore it. But it’s not all hammocks on the waterfront, Indego and Bobby Hill. We must […]

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The Five Biggest Philadelphia Transportation Stories of 2015

If anything, 2015 was the Year of the Bike on the transportation front locally, with major new facilities opening up the promise of faster, easier bike […]

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2015: The Year in Philly Media

In a way, covering the big stories is easy. When there’s a big story to be covered, it’s easy to forget we’re in an era […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Brotherhood on a Bus in Kenya

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Here’s My Problem With Tina Fey’s Mean-Girl “Philly” Accent

Before we start, let’s get a couple important things out of the way. 1) Tina Fey is annoyingly talented and outrageously funny. There are a […]

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Missanelli: How Will Chip Kelly Solve His Sam Bradford and DeMarco Murray Problems?

Welcome to mid-December, where, when it comes to the Philadelphia Eagles, we never run out of issues. Just this week, as the Birds prepare to […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Homes for the Holidays

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Kathleen Kane Says Her Sister’s Emails Aren’t That Bad — Here’s Why She’s Wrong

Earlier this month, I attended a unique press conference at the National Constitution Center. (Clearly, this is what was envisioned when this museum was opened.) […]