… doesn’t have a readily accessible link yet. Good thing I still have a rough-draft here for cutting-and-pasting. Enjoy …
The Trashman Speaketh
By Brian Hickey
As the mayor shared his administration’s screenplay for 2010: A Budget Balancing Odyssey, State of the Union-esque applause breaks outshined even the inexplicable animosity of a swastika-laden sign likening the...
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You want to know why I’m gathering tons of garbage direct from the landfill, don’t you? Easy to explain: Read this column by Ronnie Polanesky in today’s Daily News.
God, it’s almost been a year since I wrote …
Listen, I don’t like my taxes going up, and a trash-pickup fee would have resulted in...
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Gots to get myself back downstairs to watch Ed Rendell (D, East Falls) and Arnold (R, Total Recall) discuss how we can all just get along before heading off to Babies R Us (I know, I know). So let’s dispense wit this with the quickness …
– Go, Herb Magee (Basketball Coach, East Falls), go!
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First Kenney and DiCicco came for the bicyclists and I kind of agreed with them, but not entirely, so I spoke out (in a Dec. 15 Metro column for which I can’t seem to find the link; I’ll post the rough draft in ital at the bottom).
Then, they came for social media yesterday, and...
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… Just got a letter from Corey Kemp which came after a pen-pal lag necessitated by his move from Ayer, MA to another facility. But he’s all settled in at Ashland, Kentucky now. Which means that Kemp, T. Milton Street Sr. and Vinnie “The Thief” Fumo now have the same mailing address.
Note to federal...
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UPDATE: The hit-and-run hearing was wrong in my column. Sorry about that. It’s not in Harrisburg, but at Nazareth Hospital at 2601 Holme Ave. in Northeast Philly. Also, it’s from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 11.
… is about a subject near-and-dear to my brain (and this site), but worthy of a little...
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Pop quiz, hotshots: Didn’t think I’d ever come running to Arlen Specter’s defense, didja? Me neither. But then again, I never thought a lady like Michele Bachmann would ever achieve a position of power. I figure that’d lead to rabbits getting microwaved from sea to shining sea. And who knows, maybe it has.
I guess...
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