City & Local News (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
THE 'SPACIOUS' one-bedroom apartment listed in the Internet ad sounded perfect for Sherry Murphy and her 13-year-old daughter. The stately three-story center-hall colonial at 2217 N. 52nd Street, in Wynnefield, looked even better than it sounded. It was on a quiet, tree-lined street. Her room was bigger than she had imagined it.
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
WHEN WE LEFT this drama, the evil gaming moguls had conspired to despoil our pristine shores with their big boxes of flashing lights and spinning reels.
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
WE HAVE SEEN the enemy and he is Osama Bin Laden's driver. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, 44, convicted this week by a panel of U.S. military officers of "material support for terrorism," is the first "terrorist" to be tried by a military commission in 50 years.
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
MICHAEL NUTTER put on one of his mayor suits and positioned himself behind a podium emblazoned with the seal of the city of Philadelphia.
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
THE GAMING hearings in Harrisburg this week reminded me of my favorite W.C. Fields line. It's in a scene from "My Little Chickadee" in which some soon-to-be sucker walks up on Fields and three men playing poker on a train:
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
TWO WEEKS AGO, I was convinced that the era of pump prices under $4 a gallon was something we codgers would tell our grandchildren about someday.
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
JESSE JACKSON should live to be 100 and then be laid to rest beneath a headstone that reads "finally off the record."
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
OF ALL THE rights protected in the U.S. Constitution, my personal favorite is the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
MORE THAN 1,200 former inmates returned to Philadelphia public schools this year. But don't start fitting them for caps and gowns just yet.
The Next Mayor (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Editorial: We don't know Jack about City Hall scandal Cartoon: What happens if minorities take over? Columnists: Elmer Smith writes about tenants being ripped off and Clout has a run down of all things Fumo related Letters to the editor:...
Pet Connection Blog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
And you wonder why we beg people not to buy puppies from retail puppy-mill outlets (a/k/a pet stores) or Internet direct-from-the-puppy-mill sites: Two Berks County [Penn.] commercial kennel operators shot and killed 80 dogs after dog wardens ordered some of the animals be examined by veterinarians, state dog law enforcement officials said Tuesday. And because they broke [...]
Dogster For The Love of Dog Blog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
What is wrong with people? Seriously. I just came across this story and was reminded of the depths to which humanity can go. Two Berks County commercial kennel operators shot and killed 80 dogs after dog wardens ordered some of the animals be examined by veterinarians, state dog law enforcement officials said Tuesday. And because they broke [...]
The Boy Genius Report (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008 | Technology
We’ve heard through the grapevine that Apple isn’t pleased with Rogers right now, due to their insanely high iPhone data prices. This isn’t 100% confirmed at the moment, but here’s what is rumored to have happened: Rogers hired additional sales staff to handle the iPhone launch, all of whom have been fired effective immediately Apple has [...]
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Filed under: Rumors , iPhone Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog has a juicy story that even they admit sounds too good to be true: Apple and Rogers could be on the outs over the negative publicity surrounding Rogers' voice and data plans for the iPhone 3G . Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes about Daniel Smith, a Canadian sales and marketing consultant, who posted a rumor from an anonymous "inside source" claiming...
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The issue this time? Licensing of downtown tour guides in Philadelphia, which is due to begin this fall and may eventually apply to all tour guides in the City of Brotherly Love.
