• 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…
Category: Local Politics
Today’s Metro story
… 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…
The Hon. Leslie Fleisher, state vs. Det. Lew Palmer
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. •…
Today’s Metro Story
… is about Obama’s GOTV rally in Germantown yesterday. “You didn’t elect me to do what was easy. You elected me to do what’s right,” he said. “We need to fight their millions of dollars with our millions of voices.…
Today’s Metro story
… is about yesterday’s Marcellus Shale hearing at Philadelphia City Hall. Here’s the link. A late update: Councilman Curtis Jones and Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds-Brown called on City Council to call for a moratorium on hydraulic fractured — aka “fracking” —…
A List of Interesting Stories I’ve Read Recently
• Education is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution; the creation of the world’s first system of universal public education—from kindergarten through high school—and of mass higher education is one of the great achievements of American democracy. It embodies a faith…
Today’s Metro Stories
Andy Keller set 45,000 plastic bags out across Dilworth Plaza, donned a costume of 500 more and played the role of the Bag Monster outside City Hall on Thursday. The display represents how many bags the typical American uses in…
Today’s Metro Story
Though Searle admits, “I don’t think we’ll be able to stop it,” former Pennhurst residents and activists will gather at 10 a.m. Friday at Liberty Resources, 714 Market St., because “abuse, neglect, victimization and inhumane treatment … should never be…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Bin Laden = Tea Party Edition)
Good move handing bin Laden exactly what he wants to say, “See, Christians really are at war with Islam,” Fox News, Tea Party. In short, the proposed community center is not just an issue on which Sarah Palin and Osama…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Shady’s Back, Tell a Friend Edition)
Sorry about not putting one of these clip-recommendation jawns together last week but nothing really rose to the level of me saying to myself, well, not even saying anything to myself, nothing was noticeably good last week in the funnies.…