Where’s the will to fix schools?
Opinion May 8, 2013 6 Comments
by Pete Mazzaccaro As the school year enters its final six weeks, the future of Philadelphia’s public schools looks as grim as ever. Short more than $300 million and having no interested parties willing to act to close the financing hole, the School District of Philadelphia has proposed a brutally austere budget that would limit [...]
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Heart-shaped beds and cars that go boom
Opinion May 8, 2013 0 Comments
by Hugh Gilmore Years ago my mother-in-law kindly agreed to take our 6-year-old son Andrew for the weekend, so Janet and I could go on retreat for the first time. Not the kind you’re thinking, but the kind where the hotel has heart-shaped beds and bathtubs. Going to one of those corny Poconos places seemed [...]
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Society – and sports – are changing for the better
Opinion May 8, 2013 0 Comments
by Clark Groome Remember when it was impossible to see a black man on a Major League baseball team? Remember when it was impossible to imagine a Roman Catholic being elected president of the United States? Remember when it would have been ridiculous for a presidential candidate to name a Jew as his vice president? [...]
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Mother’s Day: Is it really about Mom?
Opinion May 8, 2013 0 Comments
by Barbara Olson Mother’s Day, Sweet Mother’s Day, is the best holiday that Hallmark invented, right? Infinitely better than Grandparent’s Day or Boss’ Day. (Who really cares about their boss anyway?) My single childhood Mother’s Day memory was when I was about 10 years old. I was at Helen Leyshon’s house sprawled on the floor [...]
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They can meet Allen Iverson, Sarah Palin, etc. – New summer camps for area children not signed up yet
Opinion May 3, 2013 2 Comments
by Jim Harris As we all know, mandatory schooling for children was invented solely for the purpose of keeping kids out of adults’ hair. All that jazz about reading and writing is just an excuse to give school an air of respectability. After the passing of child labor laws, we couldn’t send them to work [...]
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Collaboration is the key to progress
Opinion May 1, 2013 0 Comments
by Pete Mazzaccaro This weekend, thousands will come to Chestnut Hill for the Chestnut Hill Business Association’s Home and Garden Festival. One of two annual festivals, the Home and Garden Festival is the product of a tremendous effort from the CHBA staff and other contributors. Or collaborators. It’s an effort by the whole neighborhood to [...]
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Exhaustive probe by undercover columnist – Exclusive: Linkedin, popular website, one big fraud!
Opinion April 26, 2013 0 Comments
by Jim Harris There are many popular online social media groups today — sites like MySpace, for bands and musicians; Facebook, for people who like posting pictures of themselves drinking beer, and Linkedin, which bills itself as “The World’s Largest Professional Network.” The Linkedin advertising says you can “Manage your professional identity, build your connections [...]
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