A driver of a green Jeep Liberty has been walking around Philadelphia University’s campus, asking “inappropriate questions,” to 18-26 year-old women. And in one particular […]

On Monday April 22nd, conservative pollster and talking head Frank Luntz gave a speech at Penn (he’s class of ’83). At one point he requested […]

Behold, the cover of this week’s Onion “Sunday Magazine.” Like the New Yorker cartoon in Seinfeld, this makes no sense. Unlike the New Yorker cartoon […]

The councilman reflects on its passage.

Last week, National Review lambasted Pennsylvania GOP State Senator Chuck McIlhinney for standing athwart Pennsylvania’s liquor privatization effort. A couple days later he was on […]

Consider this Matt Cartwright’s freshman hazing. The first-term Democrat, who represents a district that has been gerrymandered drawn to include Scranton, Pottsville, and Easton, was […]

19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been transferred from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to Federal Medical Center Devens, 35 miles northwest of Boston. It’s a low-security […]

Thursday was a busy day for multi-millionaire businessman Tom Knox. The failed 2007 mayoral candidate, who recently considered a bid for the Pennsylvania governor’s seat […]

The upshot of the new $100 bill, besides the fact that it should be harder to counterfeit: Good old Philadelphia is center stage. Look closer […]

Newsworks has crunched numbers on which council districts have the highest rates of tax delinquency. (The whole city, as Patrick Kerkstra has found, is basically […]

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The death toll resulting from the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh stands at close to 300, making it perhaps the worst such disaster […]

So much for gun control being a political third rail. At least in Pennsylvania, where we cling to our guns, Senator Pat Toomey’s recent, failed, […]

A case for out kicker Alan Gendreau.

Do you have the flu? Are you sneezing, congested, miserable? Good. Sixth District Congressman Jim Gerlach sees money in that. He wants to tax your […]