A deja-vu mission for 2 Clintonians
There's no such thing as a short story when Mark Aronchick is telling it.
Like everything in Aronchick's life, words are an energy pool into which the Center City lawyer dives headfirst, coming up for air only when forced to inhale.
- Poll: Should cops be encouraged to be publicly out of the closet? (818 votes)
Philadelphia's new police commissioner is pushing a more open attitude toward brotherly love in the city.
Within his own ranks, Charles H. Ramsey wants to make it safe for gay and lesbian officers to be out of the closet amid a macho culture that, he acknowledges, keeps most of them in hiding.
- For founder of cognitive therapy, it's still the thought that counts.Had Tony Soprano been under his care, Aaron Beck says he could have cured his panic attacks in two sessions.
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You don't see many women at Woody's, but Chelsea Clinton popped in last week. To a packed house of screaming supporters, the 28-year-old former first child led a presidential pep rally for her mother at one of the oldest gay bars in Philadelphia.
- Phyllis Beck and Alice Beck Dubow may have started a judicial dynasty.They speak in shorthand. Hate to cook. Share a passion for social justice and Scrabble and books-on-tape and La Bohème. Are both size 6 Democrats.
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For Drexel, planning D-Day is no trip to the beach. As host of tonight's Democratic presidential debate, the university has spent the last month coordinating a plethora of logistical details.
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He's here, he's queer, call him Your Honor. Backed by a lone bagpiper, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Daniel Anders will take the oath of office today at City Hall - the first openly gay man to don the (judicial) robe in city history.
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Local labor leader Thomas Paine Cronin, for whom every mayor is King George III, loves a good fight. So it comes as no surprise that the former middleweight boxer says what he'll miss most when he hangs up his gloves tomorrow will be slugging it out with Philadelphia's elected monarchs.
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Almost 30 years of Eyewitness News is coming to Temple. CBS3 will donate its vast archive of more than 20,000 videotapes to the university's Paley Library, CBS3 president Michael Colleran and Temple president Ann Weaver Hart are to announce today in a joint news conference.
- Odds are against the GOP candidate for mayor, but that won’t stop him.Over ocean perch at the Palm, Al Taubenberger is talking manure. "Manure is highly concentrated with nitrogen, which is very important for plant growth," he says. "Most fertilizers are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus."
- Most recently, authorities say, the Family Court jurist was assaulted by her son.In the courtroom of life, there's not much order for Philadelphia judge Lisa Richette. She's been beaten and robbed on the streets of Center City - twice. She's been punched in the head while sitting in her car. She's had her chambers taken over by a deranged woman who donned her judicial robes.
- Possible precedent: Gay ex-cons get equal parole contact.Having served their time, convicted drug dealers Daniel Mangini and Steven Roberts, a couple for more than 20 years, were eager to resume their life together.
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