In today’s Pennsylvania primary, voters will get the chance to cast their ballots in numerous important races. Pennsylvania’s controversial Voter ID law remains challenged. It was not enforced in the November 2012 presidential election, nor…
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“Daddy,” the boy said, “I don’t want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will sneak off. If you think I deserve to be punished…
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In his role as chief fiscal watchdog, City Controller Alan Butkovitz has been both aggressive and responsible in exposing waste, fraud and mismanagement in government, which is why the Philadelphia Tribune endorses Butkovitz for re-election…
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When Beyoncé Knowles sang the Etta James song “At Last” at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the song could have had several meanings. At last we have an African-American president? At last, the muscle of…
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When some of us saw the first video of Charles Ramsey, the colorful Black dishwasher in Cleveland who is being celebrated as a hero for rescuing three white women captives from horrid conditions in a…
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They call it the “second term curse.” It’s where a recently re-elected president wins a second term with either a mandate politically from the people, and or a renewed sense of purpose based in the…
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