Commentary - The Temple News

University feminist group too extreme to debate

11 February 2008

Note: A correction for this article has been issued. The waves of the feminist movement have long been waning. Once eagerly sought-after privileges like suffrage, comparable worth and birth control are now casual liberties. The

Questions of my future are only mine to ask

11 February 2008

By the time graduation day rolls around in May, I estimate that I will have been peppered no less than a million times with a series of questions that sounds something like: “What will you

Philly slots lose hand

11 February 2008

Last week, Gov. Ed Rendell lambasted Philadelphia City Council members for delaying the progress of the Foxwoods and SugarHouse casinos, calling them a “City Council with no guts that can be extorted by community groups.”

Union white and suburban? Come to Philly

11 February 2008

Last Tuesday, the city’s unions and City Council took the first tentative steps toward ending a standoff over the billion-dollar, four-block expansion to the Convention Center. City Council had resisted contracting out the multitude

Alumna fights disparity with Teach for America

11 February 2008 Letter

Jessica Gasper Op-Ed Take a closer look at North Philadelphia. Slow that hurried walk to Tuttleman and make eye contact with those bright-eyed students waiting for the crossing guard to escort them across Montgomery Avenue.

Business privilege tax corrodes commercial growth

04 February 2008

Business is the heart of any city. It provides the rhythm a city needs to survive and prosper. Philadelphia policymakers do not seem to understand this. They have been taxing businesses out of the city

Dreamah’s nightmare

04 February 2008

She was young and energetic and fun. And then she was dead. Ejected through a windshield and pronounced dead on the pavement of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, amid broken glass and unlived expectations. It is

‘Spot the Asian’ again

04 February 2008

Do you want to know how Comcast will celebrate Asian American History month in April? By pulling the plug on AZN Television, a network dedicated to providing content for Asian Americans. Comcast announced last week

Sensible policing a start of positive change

04 February 2008

Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey unveiled his new policing strategy for Philadelphia last Wednesday, receiving thunderous applause from the legion of assembled officers and cadets at the Wachovia Center. Their cheers were for something rarely

Armbrister will put Temple in focus of City Hall

04 February 2008

Clarence Armbrister paid nearly $200,000 for the 10-minute trip down North Broad to City Hall. Armbrister, the former chief operating officer of Temple, accepted a nearly 50-percent pay cut to accept a role as new