Stu Bykofsky

Stu Bykofsky has been a columnist with the Philadelphia Daily News since 1987. Prior to the column, his assignments included theater critic, TV critic, copy editor, general assignment features reporter. A native of New York City, Stu has won numerous public service and journalism awards. His professional affiliations include the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and Philadelphia's Pen and Pencil Club. He supports civil-rights, human-rights and animal causes. He is married.

Email Stu at stubyko@phillynews.com

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Posted 02/04/2010

ON A COLD South Broad Street sidewalk outside U.S. Rep. Bob Brady's office, a half-dozen speakers were demanding that he support HR 4321, a bill to reform America's immigration and enforcement policy.

Stu Bykofsky: From the bitterest pill, gifts of life - 02/01/2010: TIMOTHY Michael Strain, the youngest of their three sons, had always been a gift to his parents, Beverly and Bernie Strain.
Stu Bykofsky: No more soft cell: Enforce the car-phone law - 01/28/2010: CARE TO make a bet? Not Saints vs. Colts. (I'm taking the Saints and the points.) Here's my wager: I bet that if you go to any busy Center City intersection, in less than two minutes - oh, hell, make that one minute - you'll see a driver yakking on a handheld cell phone.
Stu Bykofsky: Flying on a wing and an unfamiliar prayer - 01/25/2010: JOKES FLEW FAST and low after that US Airways flight made a surprise landing in Philadelphia when a 17-year-old Jewish passenger began praying with tefillin.
Stu Bykofsky: It's time to bail out our court system - 01/21/2010: THAT PENNSYLVANIA voters will go to the polls in a few months to select candidates lurked in my mind Tuesday as I attended a couple of events looking at the house of mirrors known as the Philadelphia court system.
Stu Bykofsky: Want to know the future? There's no time like the present - 01/18/2010: IN THE YEAR 2025, if we are still alive (with apologies to Zager and Evans' "In the Year 2525") . . .
Stu Bykofsky: Financially unstable PSPCA: Can it be saved? - 01/15/2010: FOR PHILADELPHIA'S homeless animals, the hits - hard ones - keep on coming. As the Animal Care and Control Team, operated by the Pennsylvania SPCA, tries to claw its way back to the animal life-saving levels achieved by its predecessor, the PSPCA has endured a death duel between two leaders, while financial collapse looms. If the PSPCA closes, who will protect animals and prosecute cruelty?
Stu Bykofsky: City bike report is a flat tire - 01/14/2010: SEVERAL WEEKS late, buried in the middle of the holiday shopping season, the city released its Crosstown Connector/Pilot Project Finding, bureaucratese for a report on bike-only lanes.
Stu Bykofsky: Why the crime rate is going down, really - 01/11/2010: IN DOWN ECONOMIC times, any positive news is welcome, and that's what we got with the announcement that crime in Philadelphia is down, way down, across the board.
Stu Bykofsky: . . . plan needed to shut loopholes - 01/07/2010: ALUMP OF COAL the size of the Liberty Bell was dumped in D.A.-elect Seth Williams' stocking by the Inquirer about two weeks before Santa slipped down chimneys.
Stu Bykofsky: Still loving the incredible shrinking Mummers - 01/04/2010: THE 2010 MUMMERS Parade started weak but ended strong, even if it fell short of ringing up spectator numbers of the Good Old Days.