Jackson has also been an editorial writer at the Baltimore Sun and the Birmingham (Ala.) News. While at the News, he and two colleagues won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1991 for a series on changing Alabama's tax system. He also worked for United Press International and the Birmingham Post-Herald.
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Dynamite Bob.
That was my first thought when I heard that an 88-year-old racist was the alleged gunman in Wednesday's shoot-out at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
Paris. Yes, the one in France.
That's the farthest point from which The Inquirer received e-mails protesting our contract with John Yoo to write a monthly column, which mostly centers on legal topics.
- His proposed property-tax hike should be a last resort.It's hard to be the mayor. Seems like everybody wants something from you, but nobody is satisfied with what he gets.
- ALS is service-related, but VA help for Staff Sgt. Homer O. Pledger Jr. took effort.I had expected the three-volley salute, but still flinched when the soldiers fired their guns. Funerals always put me on edge. Later, as the honor guard stoically removed the flag from the casket, and folded it to present to Bros' daughter, I thought, "How appropriate."
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The Book of Ecclesiastes says all is vanity and vexation under the sun. That's certainly the way a lot of us feel about the Philadelphia mayoral candidates. They're either vain or vexing. But they're also well qualified.
- The problem is, we buy more goods than we sell, and we borrow to make up the difference.'Now, don't you worry your pretty little head about that" always seems to be the retort of the economics literati when the economically stupid start asking questions about the U.S. trade deficit.
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There are several schools of thought on the best way to reduce the violence in Philadelphia that resulted in more than 400 murders last year.
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