Since joining The Inquirer as a staff writer in 1988, Daniel Rubin has reported from 27 countries, but most of them were small. He's been the European Correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers, based in Berlin, and a metro reporter and feature writer for the paper. He started the Inquirer's first daily blog, Blinq, which he still maintains. Dan began newspaper work in Norfolk and Louisville, Ky., after getting his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northwestern University. He has lived in all four commonwealths, most recently in Pennsylvania, with his wife, twin 20-year-old sons and a large, slobbering cowherd.
His column appears Sundays and Thursdays in Local & Region.
His column appears Sundays and Thursdays in Local & Region.
So what do I do with the Nazi flag?
Cousin Bobby asked us to grab it, before someone else went through the house and found it in the attic - folded up and faded by the sun, but still capable of inspiring horror.
- Anna Kournikova in town
- Sharif Street may run in 190th District
- ATV bills would tighten enforcement, create riding parks
- A Soldier's Things
Officer Jerrold Czech Jr. is running down the list of usual suspects on his beat:
You have your deer, raccoons, opossums, bats, great horned owls, screech owls, skunks, foxes, coyotes, turkeys, great blue herons, and occasionally your bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and red-tailed hawks.
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A few updates before I turn this space over to Annette John-Hall next Sunday and my column returns to Mondays:
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At age 94, Jessie Foyle still wakes up each morning and goes to sleep each evening with baseball. Five Phillie Phanatic dolls watch over her from the window sill in her retirement home. The pillows on her bed are embroidered with pictures of Babe Ruth and other greats from days gone by.
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It begins badly. "Some things never change," Dad says, sliding into the passenger side and noticing the collection of newspapers blocking his feet.
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What was I thinking, trying to buy some SEPTA tokens from the man in the glass booth at the Race-Vine subway station?
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They were nervous, that's understandable. They'd driven half the day to what seemed like the middle of nowhere for their one shot at impressing the Gods of Music.
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Joe Pagano has been anchored in the Great Northeast for the last half-century, but from there he's seen the world - most of it through the same 15-inch screen:
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The good news - if there is any here - is that when the sheriff's deputy knocked on Eva Moos' door at 8 a.m. Monday and served the foreclosure papers, there was little else anyone could do to her.
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Spent Memorial Day with friends in Wyncote - chicken on the grill, kids on the porch, and no sign of the peril that's got all the neighbors sticking placards in the ground warning: "Save Our Township."
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I wrote a pretty sunny column last summer about Angels on the Atlantic, the program that brings thousands of underprivileged kids from Philadelphia and Camden to Ocean City for a day at the beach.
- Honors lost buddies with flags and firsthand saga.Bill Giambrone plants 75 little American flags around his apartment building every Memorial Day in the hope people will remember what he cannot forget.
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