And I quote (from a statement he just released) … Tonight President Obama laid out very clearly and powerfully the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling and deal with our deficit in a long-term, balanced manner. The fact that we have reached a point where the President of the United States needs to…
State Sen. Larry Farnese’s office just issued a release reacting to the release of a Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission report regarding drilling in the commonwealth. Considering the governor refuses to even entertain the thought of imposing a tax on drillers — as every other state under the American sun does — it’s not the…
Per the New York Times’s Media Decoder blog, “Gawker, the popular blog based in New York, is going to court to investigate the relationship between the Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. … The lawsuit has its origins in a New York magazine story in May which reported that…
Suffice it to say, I know a little bit about pedestrian perils. We needn’t rehash why. I’ll let that picture of a helmet I had to wear for several months while pieces of my skull sat in a Cooper University Hospital freezer waiting to be fused back in over my battered brain speak for itself.…
Believe you me, it was damn near impossible to keep the news to myself since last Thursday, when I met Milton Street at the McDonald’s at 10th and Market, but I had to, because the story about him declaring himself in the Philly Mayor’s race couldn’t run until today. Here’s a link to it. And…
I spoke with U.S. Rep. Bob Brady yesterday about how rhetoric between/by politicians has led to a breakdown in respect for public office and, tragically, human life. He said Tucson is a reality check, and a call that things must change. From the story… “A lot of this is our own doing. If both sides…
• The NHL, which has seen an average of 75 concussions in each of the last four years, had long talked about curbing head shots, but two incidents last season were catalysts: Philadelphia’s Mike Richards’s hit on Florida’s David Booth and Pittsburgh’s Matt Cooke’s blow to Boston’s Marc Savard. [Sports Illustrated] • About a year…
• What Mr. Kashin did after that was take on bigger and bigger enemies, a pattern that ended Nov. 6, when he was beaten nearly to death outside his doorway. His name has now been added to the list of journalists who have been silenced through violence in Russia, alongside opposition icons like Anna Politkovskaya…
… is about tomorrow’s Election Day. Big-picture breakdown with Ed Rendell and Chris Matthews. Dan Onorato says Tom Corbett will try to suppress votes in Philadelphia, and has video of Corbett saying as much backing him up. And Bryan Lentz vs. Pat Meehan for the old seat of Joe Sestak, who’s running against Pat Toomey…
Leslie Fleisher describes herself as a person with common sense who believes in the values of patience and listening. — “Judging the judicial candidates at Somerton Civic,” Northeast Times, April 14, 2001. This whole ex-cop/ex-judge domestic-assault case was something. • Here’s a notebook-dump blog post I did at Metro. • Here’s a link to Thursday’s…
