Monica Yant Kinney has been a staff writer at The Inquirer since 1996. She has covered suburban trends, Philadelphia City Hall, welfare reform and city news. Before joining the newspaper, she was the television critic at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida. She is a 1993 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and grew up in Fort Wayne, Ind. She is married and lives in South Jersey.
Her column appears Sundays and Wednesdays in Local & Region.
The Pool Nazi is threatening to have us arrested. I'm not worried, but I wonder how Sophie Bahn will hold up behind bars.
I almost let this one slide, thinking I had run out of ways to slam the raw deal down at the Pennsauken Mart.
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Imagine having your house ravaged by hard-drinking teenagers who doused your clothes with urine, pooped on your piano, and played catch with 10 pounds of homemade meatballs while you were away for the day.
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"Why be upset about things you can't control? I'm living. You got to go with the flow, you know." - Chris Pearo, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News driver who was shot last week.
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Rome's road rules drive her crazy
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You want damnation? Spend a few hours at the helm of the average minivan, trying to keep the kids from touching each other on a cross-country drive, writes an Inquirer columnist.
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I am lugging around a videotape of last week's 20/20 tearjerker about kids in Camden, wondering where I should send it to make sure it gets into Gov. Corzine's hands.
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I have eaten some expensive meals in my day, but nothing compares to the $51,000 buffet at PhiladelphiaPark Casino in Bensalem.
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So the messenger was shot. Is the message dead? Gloucester County residents and educators were heard. They're furious about property taxes, but not so mad that they'd risk losing the devil they know. They love their locally controlled school districts despite the costs.
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Move over, Mean Girls. In the Camden School District, grownups betray each other in depraved ways that the movie's catty cheerleaders could never fathom.
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Enough with the whining, unless you're a senior citizen about to lose your house to property taxes, or a young family weighing a move to Delaware because you can't afford to raise your kids here.
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