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Pennsylvania’s Wisconsin Moment

The future of the labor movement seems to hang in the balance in Wisconsin, and the national press is busy speculating where public employee unions […]

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Insert ‘Rat’ Cliche Here

Upper Darby Pizzeria Proprietor Plays To Win, Loses. The cops say he tried to infest a competing pizza shop with mice. If their report is […]

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Judging Judges: May 17th Primary and Beyond

Judges, especially criminal-court judges, are the most powerful elected officials in Philadelphia. They can do what the Mayor, the Governor and even the President can’t […]

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Killing Pirates on the High Seas Is Long Overdue

Water is wet. The sky is blue. Europe is cowardly. While all three are indisputable, only the last can change. But it will take sheer […]

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Better Cops Needed

The Police Department Needs Better Cops. So says the It’s Our Money crew in an editorial today: “Bad cops are a signal, not that all […]

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Mandel Bows Out

Another day, another would-be challenger to Michael Nutter says “pass.” This time it’s tax-reform advocate Brett Mandel. A Democrat, Mandel was being recruited by the […]

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Campaign Finance Reform Is a Joke

To paraphrase Casablanca’s Captain Renault (while a criminal is discreetly handing him a wad of cash): “We’re all shocked, shocked to find that federal campaign […]

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GOP: The Party Of No?

The nation’s largest, most influential gathering of conservatives — the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — was recently held in Washington. Based on the sheer […]

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Knox Will Endorse Nutter

Tom Knox promised a surprise this morning — and now we know what it is. The millionaire businessman, who has weighed running for mayor this […]

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Will Winter Ever End?

Agh, Will Winter Ever End? No. Well, not soon enough, anyway. [Inquirer] Tom Knox’s “Surprise” Announcement at 10 AM. The DN thinks he’s sitting this […]

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Planned Parenthood Needs Federal Funding

This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to ban federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Last Saturday, I cried in the lobby of the Elizabeth […]

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Are Dropouts Pushed Out?

Are High School Dropouts “Pushed Out”? In Philly, four in 10 public high-school students will never graduate, which is, of course, unacceptable. The group Youth […]

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We Stopped Caring About the Barnes a Year Ago

Milton Street Will—Quote—“Wax Eloquent All Up And Down.” Yesterday, John Street’s convicted-tax-cheat brother and his “army of ex-offenders” announced his bid for mayor, demanding that […]

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Good Work If You Can Get It

This Doesn’t Have an Appearance of Impropriety At All. State Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, who opposes imposing a severance tax on gas drilling […]

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Council Gets the Answer It Wanted

Couldn’t Have Seen This Coming. A few months after City Council kicked the DROP can down the road—by demanding a second study of the program’s […]