Opinion

SIGNE WILKINSON

EDITORIAL

When mental illness collides with criminal justice

PHILADELPHIA'S NEW Mental Health Court is a long overdue innovation: It is designed to help ease the transition from prison to the streets for inmates with mental illness. The court, which opened this week, will provide intensive supervision, mental health treatment and counseling to help prisoners stay out of jail by staying on their meds and in treatment.

Daily cartoon

SIGNE WILKINSON

Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson

A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO CITY CONTRACTS

"It's Our Money" (www.ourmoneyphilly.com) is a joint project of the Daily News and WHYY, funded by the William Penn Foundation, that looks at how city government spends our tax dollars. In order to demystify the process for citizens, we examined the 2004 contract details and consulted experts - like former city labor chief Thomas Paine Cronin - to help understand some of the key areas of pay and benefits. (PDF Format)

Christine M. Flowers: Que Sarah, Sarah - 07/10/2009: I COME not to bury Sarah Palin, but to praise her. Of course, after that somewhat rambling resignation speech last Friday where she talked about migrating fish and point guards in virtually the same breath, the praise part becomes trickier.
Letters: What teachers are up against - 07/10/2009: RE ROBERT Stewart's letter "Summer-school climate change": There are many pressures on teachers, but the greatest come from outside. Neither principals nor teachers have any appreciable control over who walks through the front door of the school.
Letters: Reaction to the court's firefighter ruling - 07/10/2009: RE SIGNE Wilkinson's July 2 cartoon on racial preferences, and her point that there isn't a black way or white way to fight fires:
Letters: Animal cruelty is bull - 07/10/2009: WHY DO you post a picture of a beautiful bull being slowly murdered by a sadistic matador in Spain as if it's an opera or Broadway show and talk about how many tourists go to see it without mentioning the evil that bullfighting truly is?
Letters: Off the hook on hate? - 07/10/2009: IN HER letter "Where hate comes from," Sondra Logan ignored the murder of Pvt. Long at the recruiting station. Was there no hate there?

Letters: Cartoon doesn't pass the smell test - 07/10/2009
40 years of segregation - 07/09/2009
Victim assistance - 07/09/2009
Letters: Farrah farewell hit the spot - 07/09/2009
Letters: Another post-mortem on MJ's life & times - 07/09/2009
Michael Smerconish: Pa.'s fireworks insanity - 07/09/2009
Barbie goes fishing - 07/09/2009
Letters: Frankie Lymon & the Gloved One - 07/09/2009
Letters: The Phillies Corner - 07/09/2009

SIGNE WILKINSON PRINTS

Moonwalker 1958-2009

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This beautiful & heartwarming color cartoon by Signe Wilkinson memorializes the unrivaled talent of Michael Jackson, who brought us the Moonwalk & five decades of number one hits.
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