Daily News - Jill Porter http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter RSS Feed for Jill Porter en-us Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:29:15 GMT Jill Porter: Time to ID state parole board http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20081010_Jill_Porter__Time_to_ID_state_parole_board.html WHY WAS he out on the street? That's the question we furiously ask whenever a horrendous crime is committed by a felon paroled before his full sentence was served. Jill Porter: 'Like Walking a tightrope' http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20081008_Jill_Porter___Like_Walking_a_tightrope_.html THERE'S BEEN very little Daren Dieter can do for himself since the catastrophic moment a bullet tore through his body and left him a quadriplegic. Jill Porter: Moose Flash: Palin knows how to (field) dress for success http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20081002_Jill_Porter__Moose_Flash__Palin_knows_how_to__field__dress_for_sucess.html WE'VE HEARD it said ad nauseam since Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was named the GOP vice-presidential nominee: She can field-dress a moose. Jill Porter: Let them see your blue colors shine through http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20080926_Jill_Porter__Let_them_see_your_blue_colors_shine_through.html DEVASTATED, angry and powerless. That's how so many of us feel in the aftermath of the savage murder of Police Officer Patrick McDonald. Jill Porter: A thank-you note arrives on a fateful day http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20080924_Jill_Porter__A_thank-you_note_arrives_on_a_fateful_day.html THE ENVELOPE was delivered yesterday afternoon. It had a photograph inside, of four uniformed police officers smiling for the camera. They were unidentified. The letter was anonymous. Jill Porter: People Paper readers come through for hard-working mom http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20080919_Jill_Porter__People_Paper_readers_come_through_for_hard-working_mom.html SHELLEY KAPLAN was up all night Wednesday, weeping on the telephone with her mother, trying to overcome her embarrassment and pain. Jill Porter: Back to the wall, mom gets a break http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20080917_Jill_Porter__Back_to_the_wall__mom_gets_a_break.html IF SPIRALING energy costs and the country's financial tumult have you feeling frightened, imagine what it's like to be among the "working poor." Jill Porter: What was the hammer attacker doing on the street? http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20080912_Jill_Porter__What_was_the_hammer_attacker_doing_on_the_street_.html YOU CAN'T look at the graphic video of the harrowing subway hammer attack without asking the obvious question: What was this guy doing on the street? Jill Porter: A helping hand, a life reclaimed,a way to say thanks http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20080910_Jill_Porter__A_helping_hand__a_life_reclaimed_a_way_to_say_thanks.html IT WAS preposterous, really. When Joe Davis showed up to apply for a job at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, he was laughably unqualified. Jill Porter: Obama should have picked Hillary http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20080905_Jill_Porter__Obama_should_have_picked_Hillary.html IT'S SAFE TO SAY that Democrats awoke yesterday with a serious case of Post-Palin Depression. "Electrifying!" said U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Palin's poised and feisty speech that had Republican conventioneers swooning.