Have you seen the recent weather report, the one about the threat of major blizzard conditions scheduled to hit the Northeast part of the country? When you hear about those things, do you simply resign…
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One hundred and fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a flawed document that freed enslaved people in Confederate areas that he did not control. At the same time, it…
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If you really want Washington's chattering classes to pay attention to something, an old saying goes, leak it to the media. Whoever leaked the Justice Department's 16-page confidential "white paper" memo on the use of…
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I’ve always been a person who has encouraged more people at the table as opposed to less.. especially if it involves the betterment of a situation or at least the encouragement of thought that would…
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There is a line from Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ spoken by Mark Antony: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." This is one…
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With the city of Philadelphia still staring over the precipice of our own fiscal cliff, with local unemployment still north of 10 percent for some demographics and a shrinking tax base - it makes good…
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