Ronnie Polaneczky has been an award-winning columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News since 1999, offering a front-steps perspective on every aspect of city life, from the sublime to the stupid. In her past life, she was the editor-in-chief of Atlantic City Magazine, associate editor at Philadephia Magazine and a fulltime freelancer published in Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, MarieClaire and others. She lives with her husband, daughter, dog, two cats and hermit crab in the city's Fairmount section. You can also read Ronnie's blog, So, What Happened Was... and even enjoy her musings in podcast form.
THE SIDEWALK in front of Northeast Catholic High School can be a loud place to hang out.
Torresdale Avenue bustles with traffic, and the clatter and screech of the Market-Frankford El adds to the decibel level.
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So who would you pick if you learned MIT and West Philadelphia High had entered a $10M international contest to design a green car?
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BEFORE MASS began this past Sunday at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul, a seminarian asked the congregation if we'd consider supporting St. Charles Borromeo Seminary with a financial gift.
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FOR TWO YEARS, David Grooms put up with what he says was routinely nasty customer service from SEPTA, because it beat driving into work from his home in Lansdowne.
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YO, SEPTA WORKERS. As a fellow union member, I'm having a big problem with you, solidarity-wise.
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WHEN YOU walk into the chapel at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, in Northeast Philadelphia, it's not immediately apparent that you've entered a sacred place.
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RICHARD WEXLER can be a jerk. He sent me a nasty e-mail this week in response to my column about the child-abuse death of Charlenni Ferreira. I had noted that a handful of neighbors appeared to have witnessed Charlenni's slow, torturous murder.
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IT WAS THE hair weave that got to me. Someone in Charlenni Ferreira's life had used it to hide the head gash that Charlenni had suffered. The wound had been stuffed with gauze, then hidden beneath the weave. The injury was old enough that skin had begun to grow aross the gauze.
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IT'S BEEN TWO weeks since the Philadelphia Archdiocese announced it would close Cardinal Dougherty and Northeast Catholic high schools in 2010.
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THE MEMBERS of Fishtown Action have one question for Mike O'Brien and Larry Farnese: "Why are you mucking with our hard work?"
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TWO-AND-A-HALF years after Little Flower High School senior Lacey Gallagher died in a prom-night car wreck, two things remain unchanged:
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IFEEL A LITTLE bad for America's blackmailers. One of their best ways to make a buck has gone the way of the cassette tape.
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