The new year of 2008 has offered a glimmer of hope for a city long on its knees. Michael Nutter, the 92nd mayor of our fine city, was sworn in Jan. 8, and with him
Although they have existed in several forms for many years, 2004 was a breakthrough year for the blog. If accepted language is the hallmark of legitimate culture, being named Merriam-Webster’s “Word of the Year” in
Temple announced last month that Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street will become an adjunct professor of political science on Main Campus for the Spring 2008 semester. Despite being highly criticized during his two terms as
I shook my head, not in disbelief, but in disappointment when I saw a noose dangling from a so-called “white only” tree in Jena, La. It was the final frame of a video about the
Movements are begun in a day. They are not completed in a day. Take a look at any worthwhile movement and you’ll see that it takes time. Witness the civil rights movement, which is still
As you prepare for your much-deserved winter break and, no doubt, begin holiday shopping for your loved ones, I would ask you to please keep in mind the importance of buying locally. Be it products
Despite repeated attempts to ask for an interview with Temple alumnus, booster and Board of Trustees member Bill Cosby, we, the 86-year-old newspaper of the community for which he is, invariably, the most public figure,
Mayor-elect Michael Nutter has chosen Charles Ramsey, former police chief of Washington, D.C., as Philadelphia’s next police commissioner. Ramsey has a long history as a police officer and chief, and helped lower crime in Washington.
My birthday is coming, but I haven’t been thinking about presents. See, I’ve been questioning when birthday celebrations, the way we are accustomed to seeing them today, with parties and gifts and cards and cake,
If you don’t involve yourself in Philadelphia boxing, then you’ll never find a boxer you’ve heard of fighting at the 1,200-seat Blue Horizon. The money isn’t there. Instead, you’ll find two fighters respectfully trying to