http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller RSS Feed for Inq Col Karen Heller en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091110_Karen_Heller__The_lesson_from_the_streets__Big_money_is_not_the_answer.html Friends, what have we learned this past week? Plenty. Pundits will tell you that Chris Christie won New Jersey's gubernatorial race and Jon Corzine lost it because there's a backlash against President Obama's agenda. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091107_Karen_Heller__A_lot_of_nerve_for_a_guy_who_drives_to_work.html You have to admire the massive brakes of SEPTA union boss Willie Brown. He authorized TWU Local 234's World Series surprise 3 a.m. strike Tuesday, which put the city in one perpetual traffic jam, stranding the very sort of workers (and their children) he represents. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091103_Karen_Heller__In_Pennsylvania__we_re_No__50_.html Once brazen in its mediocrity, Pennsylvania has now distinguished itself by being late or last in almost everything. Why run in the middle of the pack when you can be 50th? The commonwealth may finally get table games, just as the industry implodes. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091030_Karen_Heller__Blue_bombast_in_Bensalem.html For World Series tickets, dear reader, I have offered far more than sex. I have vacuumed, which is not in my skill set. Also, laundered. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091027_Karen_Heller__It_s_the_duty_of_us_all_to_stop_child_abuse.html Charleeni Ferreira, in the only photograph we have, is apple-cheeked, smiling, wearing a gold crown tinged with pink. She looks, to the camera, to the outside world, like a happy little girl with the future ahead of her. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091024_Karen_Heller__Pride_of_the_Yankee_haters.html We're sitting in the 300 level next to a trio of purebred mooks. It's not quite the rarefied air of the Vet's 700 level, the scientific state where blood's cut off to the cerebral cortex, but close. The mooks are in exquisite form. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091023_Hating_the_Yankees__Its_soooo_easy.html We're sitting in the 300 level next to a trio of purebred mooks. It's not quite the rarefied air of the Vet's 700 level, the scientific state where blood's cut off to the cerebral cortex, but close. The mooks are in exquisite form. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091020_Karen_Heller__Vacant_homes_are_opportunity.html Philadelphia is fortunate enough to have the nation's largest urban park. It's less fortunate in having an extraordinary amount of vacant land and abandoned properties. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091017_Karen_Heller__Bad_taste_of_Phila__school_breakfast_plan.html As if the pennant race weren't exciting enough, the mayor has proclaimed Wednesday as Aunt Jemima Frozen Breakfast Education Day. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20091010_Karen_Heller___Plus_a_change__and_the_Barnes.html This week, I took in the latest installment of the Barnes and Bailey Circus. The Barnes Foundation is the seemingly serene institution whose recent history and planned move have created as much turbulence and division as its founder did during his lifetime.