UPDATE: Obviously, this is after the fact, but the station had a boxing special on during that time frame. We’ll be on air same bat time, same bat station, but on April 24. Lo siento for the inconvenience. The bride…
Category: Philadelphia
This Week’s Metro Column …
… 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…
Mark My Words: This will work; then, this will spread
When I get to thinking about municipal fiscal fitness — and, with the way things are going these here days, that’s often — I hearken back to a story I saw, oh, 3, 4 years ago about big cities shrinking…
My excuse to drop a “Time Bandits” shout-out
I’m still paying attention to the apparent uptick in bank robberies in Philly. Even wrote about it in September. Seems that the feds are paying attention too, as they’ll have a press conference tomorrow to launch … a new joint-venture…
Weekend Reading Roundup (And the Oscar for … Edition)
… Ridiculous non-recovery from attempted racial exploitation goes to: Capt. Troy K. Gore, an officer detailed to the Philadelphia Fire Department’s recruitment team, was placed on paid leave yesterday over allegations that he proposed a scheme to bring in more…
This Week’s Metro Column …
… can be found here. It’s a follow-up on a story about which I’ve written numerous times. I’d never met Kent, but he’s stuck with me to this day. … Despite police considering everything up to, and including, voodoo and…
Playing Kick-the-Can, again
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,…
Jesus Walks
The sign at 18th and Cecil B. Moore, not far from Temple Univ., says “New Thankful Baptist Church is back!”
Weekend Reading Roundup (Down with the Tea Party Edition)
I’m a firm believer in First Amendment rights. For obvious reasons. But I’m also a firm believer in my right to spend my money in ways I deem fit. Take the collection of quarters I spend weekly to have the…
All I Know is This …
Just say two 17-year-old girls killed by an Amtrak train on Friday weren’t actually mixed up in a “suicide pact.” Well, in that case, this story … The tragedy is almost too much for this small town to bear. Two…