Buzz Bissinger joins the Currents section as a monthly columnist specializing in local issues. He is the author of A Prayer for the City, an insider's account of the first mayoral term of the Rendell administration. Before that he worked at the Inquirer, where he covered politics and won a Pulitzer Prize with two other reporters for an investigation of the Philadelphia court system. He is the author of Friday Night Lights and the newly released Shooting Stars, co-written with LeBron James.
What makes us love a city? The rites and rituals and institutions that define it. The Dad Vail Regatta was one of them, a passage of spring for 55 years that attracted 3,000 collegiate rowers from all over the country.
Only his shrink knows for sure.
The following is a partial transcript of Mayor Nutter's most recent session with his psychiatrist.
P: You look tired.
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I love Ed Rendell and always will. He allowed me the access I needed to write A Prayer for the City. After the book, on my request, he wrote letters of recommendation for my son both to college and graduate school. I believe his first term as mayor, in th
- Harrisburg is wasting its time arguing over the sales tax. Here's a way better idea.In the latest legislative libretto of whom to sales-tax and whom not to, it is surprising to me that Harrisburg has gotten it all mucked up. I understand special interests. I understand the need of elected officials to protect their base.
- Given the 'tude she throws off that some Phila. educators are worthless, she could have cast these "celebs" to play them on TV.Philadelphia School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman has a resumé as good as it gets. Since it causes me considerable pain to say anything good about anybody, that last sentence came with heightened anguish. But it is true. Mostly. Well, maybe. Actually who really knows at this point since it is still so early in her tenure?
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