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Monica Yant Kinney joined the Inquirer in 1996 and was named a metro columnist in 2001 at the age of 30. She puts so many miles on her car roaming the region she finally bought a Prius. Monica has covered suburban trends and Philadelphia city government and, for two years, focused exclusively on crime, color and characters of South Jersey. In the early 1990s, she  expensed her cable bill while she was the television critic at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida. Monica is a 1993 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. She grew up in Fort Wayne, Ind., but now lives with her husband (a fellow Notre Dame grad), and their two young children in a very old house in Haddonfield.

Her column appears Sundays and Wednesdays in Local & Region.

Reach her by phone, 215-854-4670. Friend her on Facebook (www.facebook/monicayantkinney) or follow her on Twitter (http://twitter.com/myantkinney)

 
Email Monica at myant@phillynews.com
Posted 11/08/2009
Frank Bender lives for the dead. For 30 years, the forensic sculptor has peered into skulls and seen souls. With no scientific training and no college education, he became an internationally heralded "recomposer of the decomposed," an artist who solves crimes while providing comfort to strangers.
 
Unpunched TransPasses good for exchange or credit
 
SEPTA strike over, but fare hikes loom
 
Politics aside, doctors universally fed up with insurers
Posted 11/01/2009
October was the deadliest month in the war in Afghanistan, but it's been ages since I saw anyone protesting the military industrial complex. Global warming isn't exactly firing up the young folks, either.
Any good coach knows the off-season matters. That's why Dr. Wilbur "Billy" Oaks has no plans to let his players slack off until spring.
Moments after he strode onto the stage at a campaign event in Collingswood last week, Gov. Corzine cracked a telling joke at his own expense.
Watching Bruce Springsteen perform Born in the U.S.A. in its entirety Tuesday night at the Spectrum got me thinking about adopting the one-album concept in New Jersey politics. Imagine a governor's race where each candidate had to focus on the single subject that vexes every resident of this state, rich or poor.
Thaddeus Bartkowski III - the 28-year-old entrepreneur who calls his company B.I.G. - would rather I not write about the suburbanites fighting his plan to erect 22 humongous, double-sided billboards across Delaware County.
PPA's illogical rule: Don't park twice in one day on the same street.
Monica Yant Kinney: It isn't every day the average citizen triumphs over an opponent with a badge and gun, so I begin this column with a hearty thanks to the Philadelphia Police Department for ordering cops to stop dumping their personal cars on sidewalks.
October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I figured I'd write about how the brutal economy has become an accomplice in crimes against women.
I had a long talk the other day with a nice guy who disagrees with most of what I write about guns.
In 2003, Leonard Porter received a kidney transplant. After he recovered, he felt so good he resumed a grueling job in construction.
There's an old rule in journalism that three of anything equals a trend story. So allow me to suggest, using the examples below, that commonsense gun-law proponents are gaining ground in this scared state.
This column goes out to anyone who has been feeling powerless. You may no longer have a job, a house, or retirement savings, but you still have a voice. Speak out, loud and long, and you can be heard.
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