It’s a jolly time of the year and the holiday spirit infuses the Philadelphia Inquirer’s series evaluating Jim Kenney, Philadelphia’s…
Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying nothing is certain except death and taxes. (He was talking about the viability of…
I’m not sure why Michael Days recommended I read the Pulitzer Prize-winning, “Slavery by Another Name,” by Southern journalist Douglas…
Journalism is the first draft of history, they say. Written fast, with deadlines bearing down on the reporter, those drafts…
Update: Ramon Lawrence waived his preliminary hearing; the judge put him into an Accelerated Rehabilitation Disposition program. Lawrence will take…
It is very easy, too easy, as you can see in this Washington Post column, to frame presidential contests involving…
It’s time for another installment of Lie Busters. The first chapter, a few weeks back, reported on the Three Great…
Well, technically speaking, it’s not a cartoon, but it is close enough to fulfill the promise of the headline. (That’s…
Here’s what I am not thankful about: The generational change in this country that may have catastrophic results, at least…
Wow, Thanksgiving crept up on me. So many other things are going on I nearly missed the annual column to…