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No Substitutes for Good Substitutes

In mid-June, the School Reform Commission voted unanimously to outsource school substitute management. “The vendor was able to commit to us to provide high quality […]

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What Everyone Is Avoiding Saying About Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal

Like everybody else, I’ve been reading way too much about Hillary Clinton’s emails. I’ve read that her use of a private in-house server violated federal […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

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Eagles Will Go 11-5, Win the NFC East

If you’ve been following the football writers, bloggers and ex-team executives — who once hated the media but now by the grace of a paycheck find […]

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5 Pope Visit Silver Linings for Philadelphians

By now, you’ve probably already decided how you feel about the upcoming Pope drop-in. Maybe you’re delighted to host Francis and his faithful flock in […]

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Dear Le Bok Fin Haters: Quit Your Whining

Did you hear about the latest scourge of Philadelphia? No, it’s not the violence in the streets or the corruption and incompetence in public office […]

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Stu Bykofsky Doesn’t Think I Should Have Had an Abortion

In an odious “story” in today’s Daily News, Stu Bykofsky, a man whom I have never met, makes the huge (and hugely male) presumption that […]

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Is There a Middle Way on Cop Anonymity?

Let me confess to a failing: When John McNesby speaks, I almost always decide to take the opposite position. It’s a knee-jerk instinct, and it’s […]

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Thanks, But I Don’t Need the Pope to Forgive My Abortion

By the time I graduated from college in 1978, almost every one of my women friends had had an abortion. The circumstances in each case […]

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Merging Daily News, Inquirer Newsrooms Would Be Dumb

The first day I walked into the newsroom at the Daily News, one of the editors pulled me aside to share an insight on the […]

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How Did I Go This Long Without UberX in My Life?

As is the case with most things that involve my phone, I was late to the UberX game. It’s not that I didn’t have a […]

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5 Porngate Questions Seth Williams Needs to Answer Immediately

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, you’ve got some explaining to do. While previously working for the Attorney General’s office, your prosecutor Frank Fina was part of an […]

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5 Logistics Lessons Pope Visit Organizers Can Learn From the Gospels

You can’t blame Archbishop Charles Chaput for trying. With the pope’s visit drawing near and Philadelphians still in a state of high–fret over the situation, […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

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Will Heath Evans Please Shut Up About Chip Kelly, Eagles Fans

As a lifelong Philadelphia sports observer, there is one thing that bothers me more than anything: when outsiders stick their big, fat nose into our […]