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by RORY McGLASSON If Mitt Romney is looking for a Vice Presidential candidate who can double as a secret service agent, he might find the right guy in Philadelphia. Saying that government has become too isolated from the reality most American families face today, Scott Cummings, a longtime Northeast Philadelphia resident, threw his hat in […]
The Alliance Française de Philadelphie will honor Derek Gillman, of Merion, president of the Barnes Foundation, with its Ambassador of the Arts Award at the annual Bastille Day dinner event on Jul. 14 at the Independence Seaport Museum. Nancy Gabel, of Wynnewood, VP of the Alliance Française and chair of the Bastille Day event, announced […]
BY CONGRESSMAN BOB BRADY/Â One of the most destructive and troubling trends in our nation is the growth of income inequality. The increasing concentration of wealth at the top, the shrinking of our middle class, and the growing number of people who are working but still poor threatens our future prosperity and, as research of countries […]
BY GREGORY BUCCERONI, Coordinator, Transit Crime Watch Victim Services/ The national press recently carried a legendary New York mobster’s obituary. Henry Hill died at the age of 69 peaceably at his home near Hollywood, Cal. He had “business†roots here in Philadelphia and that’s how I got to know him. The public learned about Hill from […]
BY RORY McGLASSON/ A kids’ play set at FDR Park will rise from the ashes, but that will not hide the disappointment of kids left devastated by an act of cowardice that destroyed their home away from home last weekend. The smell of soot and ash still lingers in the air at the Lakes, with police […]
BY RORY McGLASSON/ Legendary NFL coach Dick Vermeil is helping to call the plays in a bid to to save the SS United States. The Former Philadelphia Eagles was applauded for his volunteer work to save the historic ocean liner that sits rotting away in South Philadelphia, at a reception held at Independence Seaport Museum. Vermeil, […]
BY TONY WEST/ This fall, Philadelphians will be able to see the Delaware River shipping channel being deepened to 45 feet. It probably won’t look different from the routine dredging that is done to maintain the channel’s current 40-foot depth. But the five extra feet of mud and gravel that it pulls out of the riverbed […]
Both Republican and Democrat national campaign teams are developing articulate Pennsylvania political leaders as spokespersons for day-to-day press events, in what will be a key swing state in the November 2012 presidential election. Last Friday, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D-Phila.) was tapped for an Obama for America press conference call to discuss Mitt Romney’s economic philosophy, […]
BY JOE SHAHEELI/  Activists in the Republican Party in Philadelphia refuse to understand the reason for their existence. Rather than provide city leadership, attract voters, pick winnable candidates, raise election-day money and get their candidates elected, they are instead engaged in a civil war. Don’t blame the rank and file of the existing Republican City […]
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