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Let’s Not Tax Airbnb for Pope’s Visit

Councilman Bill Greenlee has an idea: He wants to tax Philadelphians who rent out their rooms for the pope’s visit. I have a different idea: […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

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The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week Ending May 8th

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?

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LeSean McCoy Is Wrong

LeSean McCoy is still very hurt about being traded from the Philadelphia Eagles. That was the clearest conclusion anyone could reach about McCoy’s comments to […]

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Tony Come Lately?

As a full supporter of the #BlackLivesMatterMovement, I wield a hefty amount of skepticism towards any candidate’s newfound interest or consciousness on this matter — […]

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How Philly Police Kept the Peace at “Philly Is Baltimore”

Well, thank God for Philadelphia Police. I’m serious. Yes, it’s easy to find reasons to criticize our local department, and I do it all the […]

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5 Rules for Behaving During Philadelphia Street Festival Season

Somehow, I went almost three decades in this city without having to experience a neighborhood street festival. Actually, it was easy. I grew up in […]

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Chew On This, Anti-Vaxxers: America Has Wiped Out Rubella

In case you missed it with all the hoopla over the NFL draft, the World Health Organization made a big announcement last week: Rubella has […]

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My 10-Step Plan for Emancipation From Police Brutality

Municipal police departments, as they are now known, began as slave patrols. In fact, the first official one started in 1704 in the Colony of […]

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The Incredibly Simple Way to Fix the Attorney General’s Office

Quick poll: Who here thinks we can solve the problems that ail the state Attorney General’s office by making Pennsylvania’s political culture more like Philly’s? […]

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The (New) Jim Kenney for Mayor

In many ways, this has been the weirdest of Philadelphia mayoral elections. We mean that not in the sense of weird things happening — honestly, […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: They Held the NFL Draft. Finally.

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The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week Ending May 1st

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?

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Center City District: We Didn’t Know Protest Was Scheduled for Dilworth

Occupy Philly moved in to the old Dilworth Plaza on October 6th, 2011. The concrete plaza was quickly taken over by the activists, who made […]

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What I Learned About Philly Through My Google Search History

  I realize that I’m late to the Google search download game. The option to download your search history – as in, your entire search […]