With innumerable nonprofits operating in Philadelphia under a wide range of goals and missions, it’s becoming routine to learn how scores of them are coming under federal scrutiny for mismanaging or failing to properly use the funds they get – which in some cases are misappropriated by one or more of their officers. Unfortunately, […]
The Lesson —Maya Angelou  I keep on dying again. Veins collapse, opening like the Small fists of sleeping Memory of old tombs, Rotting flesh and worms do Not convince me against The challenge. The years And cold defeat live deep in Lines along my face. They dull my eyes, yet I keep on dying, […]
Momentous reforms in health care are commanding the attention of the entire nation. By an odd coincidence, they shed light on another proposed “reform†that keeps popping up in Pennsylvania: cutting the size of our General Assembly. A bill introduced by House Speaker Sam Smith passed the State House this week and was sent to […]
Only In America In China, the Communist government puts its highest officials in jail when accused of wrongdoing. In Russia, allegedly wrongdoing capitalists have found themselves behind bars in Siberia. In the United States, firms caught finagling billions from consumers get fined millions of dollars by the federal government. But no one is found responsible […]
Many are the public servants who have devoted their lives to making Philadelphia a better and safer city, and doing so without fanfare. They rise to the occasion and truly take on the yoke asked of them, move through problems and restore order. They don’t yell. They listen a lot, and in the listening take […]
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