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Some things in life are funny. Not uproariously, laugh-out-loud funny but “able to make you smile inside” kind of funny. These small enlightenments are all […]

Virgin America announced that its newest destination will be Philadelphia. PHL will be the 17th American destination for the California-based airline. Additionally, Virgin America announced […]

We’re Still Talking About Arlene Ackerman. It’s been nearly half a year since Ackerman was chased from the Philadelphia School District. And by “chased from” […]

As if flying via Philadelphia International Airport didn’t already suck enough, now word comes of an increase in unscheduled refueling stops for supposedly nonstop transatlantic […]

If you take SEPTA with any regularity, you know that there are some impolite people who use the city’s public transportation. While putting your feet […]

I have always found North Korea to be one of the most fascinating countries on earth. From the creepy cult of personality that surrounded Kim Jong-il […]

We were lucky enough to have exotic visitors over Christmas break—two of my daughter’s roommates, one from college, one from grad school, both from Kenya. […]

Two NYPD officers appeared to be visibly intoxicated while aboard a Greyhound bus in Philadelphia Tuesday night. The driver asked them to leave and they […]

Four masked gunmen robbed tollbooths on the Garden State Parkway early this morning. The four men pulled up to one of the tollbooths and one […]

Interstate 287 in Harding, New Jersey is currently shutdown after a small plane heading from New York City to Georgia crashed onto the highway. Reports […]

The best thing about being a columnist is that there’s never a shortage of material—especially the kind that leaves you shaking your head.  The bad […]

There are more than 5,600 bills winding their way through the legislative maze that is the 112th U.S. Congress. And in between the latest efforts to […]

The Pennsylvania turnpike has been awarded $1 million to install electric car-charging stations at 17 service stations along the interstate. Car Charging Group L.L.C. got […]

Thanksgiving, I flew to London for five days to see my older son, Sam, 22, studying there this fall. I found his tube stop—Farringdon—easily enough, […]

Planners predict that a high-speed rail in the Northeast Corridor would make Philly the center of the region’s economy by 2050. The city would be […]