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The Homeless Have a Home: It’s Philadelphia

I know she didn’t mean it to be cruel, when she said it. She was just a sheltered kid from Roxborough doing a park cleanup […]

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Dear Philly: Let’s Embrace the Pope’s Visit

When I saw the headline, “Papal Panic! Could the Pope’s Visit Be a Giant, Embarrassing Flop??” I almost didn’t scroll to read it.  I see […]

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Is Archbishop Chaput Trolling Pope Francis?

“So,” a colleague asked me this week, “Is Archbishop Chaput trolling the pope?” It was a funny notion — putting the leader of the city’s […]

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Papal Panic! Could the Pope’s Visit Be a Giant, Embarrassing Flop?

I’m starting to get a little worried about this papal visit. I think it was a story in the Inquirer about gunmen on the Parkway […]

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PA Dems Donate Democrat T-Shirts to Soup Kitchen, Congratulate Themselves

It’s been a while since we’ve taken a shot at ridiculous press releases, so we’d like to thank the Pennsylvania Democratic Party for sending us […]

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Department of Duh: Of Course Margie Winters Got Fired

In some ways, I feel for Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. Yesterday, when he released a statement on the archdiocese’s position on the firing of Margie Winters, […]

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Bill Cosby Scandal Suggests We Still Don’t Take Sexual Assault Seriously Enough

Folks: If Bill Cosby, as has been alleged, sexually assaulted dozens of women, it would be wrong because sexually assaulting women is wrong. It wouldn’t be wrong […]

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The 7 Worst People at the Farmers’ Market

In theory, the farmers’ market sounds like a lovely place to spend your Sunday morning. And it should be. It could be. Sometimes it is. […]

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Why Are You Walking Barefoot Around Center City?

It was 11 a.m. on a Friday at 15th and Locust when I saw it: a man, in nice khakis and a polo, holding his […]

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Missanelli: Innes and Bruno Partnership Melts Down — I’m Still Standing

Many people lately have asked me to comment on the state of Philadelphia sports talk radio, which finds a competitor station acting out a myriad […]

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Which Shark Week Star Is Your Favorite Jersey Shore Point’s Spirit Shark?

Shark Week is upon us, friends. The Discovery Channel’s annual celebration of scary fish and worse puns kicked off Sunday, and it looks to be another banner […]

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Is Pittsburgh Really Better Than Philly? (Spoiler Alert: No)

So there’s this website, NerdWallet.com, that’s ostensibly a personal finance site but which often sends out press releases ranking cities compared to this or that criteria […]

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