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This Is What I Think Of Arlene Ackerman

From my freelance column in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer about the superintendent of Philadelphia public schools: More than any state or federal funding cuts, such revelations grease the rails for the flight to the suburbs of families that can afford to…

Too much time on their hands

Who says journalism’s dead? The Philadelphia Inquirer certainly didn’t, having two reporters look into the details of how Bam Margera got hit by a bat the other night in West Chester. It’s official: The Mayans were right. It’s all over.…

Brave New (Parenting) World

Here’s a link to my column in today’s Inquirer about my take on pre-parenthood in a social-media era … In the era of To Catch a Predator, safety is one obvious (and overplayed) issue. But so is simple privacy. Both…