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By Chandler Fattah The world is constantly evolving, adopting new traditions and parting with ideas that no longer appeal to the majority of the public. The impetus for social change is typically a …
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By George Coates, Jr.
Shortly
after the protests over the horrific death of George Floyd began, it became de
riguer
that academic and cultural institutions regardless of their stated …
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8/19/20
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In the last year, we’ve suffered remarkable national and global crises – both the unrelenting spread of Covid-19 and a complete reexamination of our country’s long, long record of racial …
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8/19/20
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By Howard A. Myrick
“It’s
all local.” So goes the familiar expression about politics. It is a truism that
applies (or should apply) also to news analysis and reporting in the …
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8/14/20
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Amid the many, many aspects of life that have been disrupted during this long pandemic-induced period of working and schooling from home, a noted loss for people in Chestnut Hill and nearby …
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8/13/20
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Dr. Geri Lynn Utter By Geri Lynn Utter, PsyD. As I sat down to write this article, I thought to myself, what should my first sentence say? “During these uncertain times” or “during this …
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8/6/20
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This week’s front-page story by Kate Dolan will likely not come as a surprise to most readers. As is the Local’s nearly annual tradition, we’re again reporting on young people diving and …
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8/6/20
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As I think back on how the coronavirus pandemic played out in the months since March, I can’t help but be struck by the prevailing changes in outlook from one week to the next. The only thing that …
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7/30/20
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(Ed. Note: I am sure we all had teachers throughout our
school years who we thought were just so-so and those we thought were
magnificent, who may have even changed the course of our lives …
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7/24/20
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In a little more than a week, federal bonuses of $600 a week to the unemployed are set to expire. If that happens, our economy, which has managed to chug along if a little crippled since the …
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7/22/20
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By State Senator Art Haywood
Nationwide, Americans continue to staunchly protest systemic
racism. The country has not seen action like this since the Civil Rights and
Black Power …
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7/16/20
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Let me begin by saying I don’t know the answer to this question. I’m not sure anyone really knows the answer to this question. And as this pandemic looks certain to persist through the rest of …
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7/15/20
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US Airmail stamp commemorating Philp Mazzei, the forgotten Italian founding father. by Pete Mazzaccaro As statues of Christopher Columbus have been toppled around the country, an angry and violent …
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7/9/20
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By the time you read this column, more than 130,000 Americans will have died due to COVID-19. In late May and early June, it looked like we had left the pandemic’s worst days behind us. But the …
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7/8/20
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In normal, non-pandemic times, I am ravenous listener of podcasts. I’m a dedicated fan of some of the most tried and true of the format: Terry Gross’ “Fresh Air,” Marc Maron’s “WTF” …
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7/2/20
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The Chestnut Hill Local is often referred to as a “community newspaper.” It’s a simple term that defines a straightforward purpose. The Local is a newspaper that was created to cover the …
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6/25/20
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by George Stern
It’s not easy to say, “I was wrong.” It’s so much simpler to
pretend that everything’s OK, to make excuses (“I really meant…”), to blame
others (“he …
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6/24/20
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By Howard A. Myrick
What?! Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill …boarded up shop
windows and buildings …shuttered windows in nearby Mt. Airy … looted stores and
vandalized historic …
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6/18/20
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by Len Lear
Now that police brutality is
front and center as a national issue, it feels like the reign of Frank Rizzo,
who essentially encouraged his almost all-white police department …
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6/18/20
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Because I’ve worked in journalism for a long time, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to talk to police officers over the years. From district captains to homicide detectives, patrolmen to public …
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6/10/20
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