The new college student housing complex soaring at Fourth and Cooper Streets in downtown Camden provides unique perspectives on structural problems strangling that city located across the Delaware River from the Penn’s Landing waterfront in…
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This week, I have been seriously neglecting my duties here at the paper — with the full knowledge and approval of my boss. I have been given a higher calling, you see, a more important…
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Too many things in today’s world just make too little sense. Where’s the consumer safety sense in selling snack crackers as a rye-based offering when those crackers contain more wheat than rye? Many people buy…
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What’s happening with the School District of Philadelphia these days is beyond tragic. Even action adjectives like “crisis” or “troubled” just don’t cut it anymore. The situation is not troubled, folks, it is catastrophic. What…
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This is about a U.S. president who has and other officials who should reconsider their stances. This is about a revenue source scornfully rejected by federal and state officials despite their desperate need for new…
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If, as the old saying goes, politics is a contact sport; then Philadelphia politics is a no-holds-barred, steel cage death match. Every campaign season, we are inundated with candidates whose shameless win-at-all-costs philosophy embarrasses us…
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