- One man's metal trash is another's easy buck
My column on increased fines for litterbugs brought a flurrly of responses. Here are a few:
In my South Philly neighborhood, where people even roll their car window down to dump trash into the street, I've found a small solution: buy a trash can and put it out on the curb for the neighborhood to use. One minor problem: the city fines you for put
FOR ALL HER life, two things were true about Dolly Garber: She was an entertainer . . . and she was sickly.
- THE LATEST scandal swirling through Harrisburg proves there's nothing new under the sun, nor between the bedsheets. A dirty dozen politicians were indicted for illegally using state money to pay staffers for doing campaign work while on the clock, but Mike Manzo is a standout.
- THE TRAIL of yellowed newspaper clippings tell the tale of a terrible summer weekend a long time ago. At 8:45 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, 1970, Fairmount Park Guard Sgt. Frank VonColln, 43, was talking on the phone in a stone guardhouse in Cobbs Creek Park when he was shot five times and killed. Comfortable in his office, VonColln wasn't wearing his gun. His murder had the earmarks of an execution. No one later convicted of his murder was executed.
- DRIVING TOWARD Borough Hall in Swarthmore, you pass streets named Vassar, Harvard, Yale. Swarthmore seems like a town with serious educational aspirations.
- WELCOME, Americans. Not "Welcome, America!" That's the city's shindig. This born and bred American columnist says "welcome" to the 3,000 former foreigners who became newly minted American citizens yesterday. Two naturalization ceremonies in the Pennsylvania Convention Center were more emotional than usual, coming so close to our national birthday.
- WHO WOULD oppose increasing fines on thoughtless litterbugs who sully our streets, uglify our neighborhoods and allow wise guys to slur us as Filthydelphia?
- Nine years too much? Nothing too little?WOW, THE system worked! The Pennsylvania Instant Check system, designed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, worked perfectly when it blocked Aaron McKie, a sharp-shooter from the basketball-court wing, from becoming a gun shooter.
- NEW ORLEANS - America sometimes has the attention span of a gypsy moth, and the nation this week is heartsick over the raging floods that drowned the heart of the Midwest and made tens of thousands of Americans homeless.
- NEW ORLEANS - If one good thing came out of the crushing blow dealt the Crescent City by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 - and not much good did - it was the arrival of thousands of volunteers from around the nation who were dismayed, heartbroken or outraged by the failure of government to protect its people.
- NEW ORLEANS - I helped a presidential candidate fix up a home at Roman and Piety streets in the Upper Ninth Ward on Tuesday.
- A JOKE I like: I was depressed last night so I called the Suicide Lifeline. I got connected to a call center in Pakistan.
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