Culture
If you are a Mummer or a fan of the Mummers, you might want to know that a Mayor Gym would likely spell the end of the 123-year-old parade, whose roots go back two centuries before that. What makes me think so? This tweet that she shot out after the
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I don’t recall a mayoral election in which I was undecided just days before Election Day. Can this Rebecca Rhynhart (left) beat that Helen Gym (right)? I usually vote for the person I like best, irrespective of their “electability” or political party. Not this year. This year we have
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Philadelphia City Council is about to undergo the largest change in recent memory. Why? Council candidates Melissa Robbins (left) and Donavan W. West A raft of incumbents ran away from their offices as if they were stocked with cases of Bud Light. Philly has 17 Council people -- 10 District,
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Well, this is not how I wanted my interview with Rebecca Rhynhart to go. Along with other candidates, I contacted her more than a month ago to sit down for an interview. Rebecca Rhynhart: Missing in action (Photo: NBC10) She agreed and turned it over to staff to arrange. Many
Helen Gym
Helen Gym “doesn’t play nice in the sandbox.” -- Progressive former Councilwoman Maria Quiñones Sánchez. ---- And Sanchez is a friend of Gym’s (but she endorsed Cherelle Parker for mayor). Helen Gym with her favorite fashion accessory (Photo: Philadelphia Inquirer) Another progressive admirer is Larry Platt, headman at
Immigration
As we get closer to the undeniable surge of illegals undocumented persons crashing our border, the AP put out a story that violates the norms of objectivity and fair treatment. Here’s the lede paragraph, which I will edit with italics to add missing words or note the errors: CHICAGO
Media
This is going to be shocking, at least to regular readers. I am going to defend Tucker Carlson, a little bit like Mark Antony speaking at Caesar’s graveside. Tucker Carlson: There is this much truth in what I say. (Photo: Bloomberg) The difference is I come neither to bury,
Journalism
After nearly four years of psychological trauma, legal expense, aggravation, and sleepless nights, I am free of all entanglements with my former employer, the Philadelphia Inquirer. And after nearly four years, I have removed a gag order, and I’m free to speak. But first, the background: It started on
Journalism
By Ralph Cipriano In a non-confidential settlement signed Monday, the Philadelphia Inquirer has decided to drop the vindictive lawsuit that it had filed against Stu Bykofsky, the newspaper’s own former columnist. In settling the case, the Inquirer agreed to forget about trying to recoup Bykofsky’s severance payment of
Culture
When Thomas Jefferson University President Mark Tykocinski “liked” some controversial tweets, he “should have known better,” Jefferson CEO Joseph G. Cacchione wrote in an email to the Jefferson community, and reported by the Inquirer, which published the “likes” a couple of days earlier. He should have known better than to
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Well, wasn’t that anti-climatic? I mean Friday’s Committee of 70 poll that seemed to show a five-way tie for mayor, with the three women candidates in the lead. (Unlike some, I can define “woman.” And each of the three is a mother, not a “birthing parent.”) Anyway. . . The
Political Correctness
It’s Friday morning, and I can guarantee you that most of the chattering class is hitting refresh, waiting for the release today of the independent mayoral poll commissioned by the Committee of Seventy. Why the intense interest in the poll? Because out of the nine Democratic candidates hoping to