http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin RSS Feed for Inq Col Daniel Rubin en-us Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:03:29 GMT http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080827_Daniel_Rubin__No_holding_back_Rendell.html Daniel Rubin is on assignment, live blogging on the Democratic National Convention. Here are excerpts from his blog, "Blinq": He had the crowd before he even got to the speech. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080817_Daniel_Rubin__Her_college-aid_cram_session_keeps_hope_alive.html Do you have any Perkins money? What about the SEOG? Are your loans subsidized? Three questions, rapid-fire, from three woman sitting across the round table, and Ty McCloud is writing as fast as she can. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080813_Daniel_Rubin__Ty_McCloud_s_fight_to_graduate.html This could be one of those uplifting pieces: A young West Philly woman makes it despite overwhelming odds - the loss of her grandmother and, less than a year later, the murder of her mother. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080810_Daniel_Rubin__City_iPod_killing_reignites_one_mother_s_anger.html When Beau Zabel was killed for his iPod, Kathleen O'Hara waited a few weeks before sending her book to the aspiring teacher's mother back in Minnesota. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080803_Daniel_Rubin__In_death_a_news_blurb__but_in_life__a_quiet_giant_.html You may not have seen the news about a 25-year-old woman who died last Sunday after jumping from the second floor of her burning house in Olney. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080730_Daniel_Rubin__When_your_name_gets_turned_against_you.html Don't even start with the jokes. He's heard them all before. And he is not amused. You're either broken or made stronger when you grow up in 1940s West Philadelphia and your last name is Libshitz. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080727_Daniel_Rubin__Rittenhouse_Square_blog__A_man__a_plan__a_park.html We were to meet on his turf, me and the guy known online as Rittenhouse Square, and I didn't know what to expect when I showed up at the bronze hooves of the goat. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080723_Daniel_Rubin__The_obsession_of_Larry_Mendte.html If we could now turn to Jan. 3, 2008, in the secret life of Larry Mendte. 10:57 a.m. It is a major news day - the Iowa caucuses and the start of the presidential race. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080720_Daniel_Rubin_.html The dinosaurs gathered last weekend at Mermaid Lake. Some of the wags in attendance - actually, only wags were in attendance - described the Old Inquirer picnic as a cross between speed-dating and a 40th-year reunion. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20080716_Daniel_Rubin__An_indie_effort_to_save_a_shop.html Ask Det Ansinn to describe where he lives and the president of Doylestown's Borough Council talks of "our little Norman Rockwell painting."