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- Holiday hours & road closures
- Michael Smerconish: Kenny Gamble's patriotic tune
WELCOME, Americans.
Not "Welcome, America!" That's the city's shindig.
This born and bred American columnist says "welcome" to the 3,000 former foreigners who became newly minted American citizens yesterday. Two naturalization ceremonies in the Pennsylvania Convention Center were more emotional than usual, coming so close to our national birthday.
- Cherry Hill starts cashing in on recycling
WHO WOULD oppose increasing fines on thoughtless litterbugs who sully our streets, uglify our neighborhoods and allow wise guys to slur us as Filthydelphia?
- Nine years too much? Nothing too little?WOW, THE system worked! The Pennsylvania Instant Check system, designed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, worked perfectly when it blocked Aaron McKie, a sharp-shooter from the basketball-court wing, from becoming a gun shooter.
- NEW ORLEANS - America sometimes has the attention span of a gypsy moth, and the nation this week is heartsick over the raging floods that drowned the heart of the Midwest and made tens of thousands of Americans homeless.
- NEW ORLEANS - If one good thing came out of the crushing blow dealt the Crescent City by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 - and not much good did - it was the arrival of thousands of volunteers from around the nation who were dismayed, heartbroken or outraged by the failure of government to protect its people.
- NEW ORLEANS - I helped a presidential candidate fix up a home at Roman and Piety streets in the Upper Ninth Ward on Tuesday.
- A JOKE I like: I was depressed last night so I called the Suicide Lifeline. I got connected to a call center in Pakistan.
- IT SEEMED like a good idea at the time - like the Edsel, "new" Coke and the invasion of Iraq.
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Stu Bykofsky: It was Mendte be: Where Larry should land
- "WHAT WILL happen to Larry Mendte?" I've been asked that a few times, because people know that I covered TV for five years, I know the players and I know the process. I know how the squirrels who run TV stations arrange their nuts.
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Stu Bykofsky: What's enough jail-time for "Bonnie & Clyde"?
- JEAN VALJEAN was sentenced to five years for stealing bread for his starving family. Philadelphia's Bonnie & Clyde will likely get five years for actually stealing $116,619 and attempting to steal another $122,311 to finance their high life.
- WHO WOULD have imagined that the most popular "F-word" dished by the Cosmo Quartet would not be "Fashion," would not be "Flirt," would not even be "F---," but would be . . . "Forgiveness"?
- FLYING TOO FAST and too low to avoid it, Capt. Luther Smith throttled his P-51 Mustang fighter with the red-painted tail right through the fireball exploding before his eyes.
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