- Clout: Now it's the GOP's turn to party
- Jill Porter: A reminder of how far we've come, and of what lies ahead
- John Baer: The speech? A bit showy. Obama? Worthy of consideration.
BACK WHEN Robin Leach made a small fortune spying on people with big fortunes, the "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" was something to aspire to.
DHS strives to protect children from abuse, neglect and delinquency. We also work to strengthen them and provide for families by enhancing community-based prevention services.
- THE 'SPACIOUS' one-bedroom apartment listed in the Internet ad sounded perfect for Sherry Murphy and her 13-year-old daughter. The stately three-story center-hall colonial at 2217 N. 52nd Street, in Wynnefield, looked even better than it sounded. It was on a quiet, tree-lined street. Her room was bigger than she had imagined it.
- WHEN WE LEFT this drama, the evil gaming moguls had conspired to despoil our pristine shores with their big boxes of flashing lights and spinning reels.
- WE HAVE SEEN the enemy and he is Osama Bin Laden's driver. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, 44, convicted this week by a panel of U.S. military officers of "material support for terrorism," is the first "terrorist" to be tried by a military commission in 50 years.
- MICHAEL NUTTER put on one of his mayor suits and positioned himself behind a podium emblazoned with the seal of the city of Philadelphia.
- THE GAMING hearings in Harrisburg this week reminded me of my favorite W.C. Fields line. It's in a scene from "My Little Chickadee" in which some soon-to-be sucker walks up on Fields and three men playing poker on a train:
- TWO WEEKS AGO, I was convinced that the era of pump prices under $4 a gallon was something we codgers would tell our grandchildren about someday.
- JESSE JACKSON should live to be 100 and then be laid to rest beneath a headstone that reads "finally off the record."
- OF ALL THE rights protected in the U.S. Constitution, my personal favorite is the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
- MORE THAN 1,200 former inmates returned to Philadelphia public schools this year. But don't start fitting them for caps and gowns just yet.
- ANNE MARIE Ambrose knew she'd have to hit the ground running yesterday when she took over the city's Department of Human Services. But she never even got to hit the ground before I was calling her about one of the toughest child-custody cases she will ever have to deal with.
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