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Crisis opens a window to school reforms
Posted 05/04/2012
The notion that you should never waste a good crisis is virtually political dogma, and for obvious reasons. In normal times, public bureaucracies change slowly, if at all. The public must be convinced. Opponents must be overcome. Ideas must be tested and debated.
Technically Philly cofounders (from left) Christopher Wink, Sean Blanda, and Brian James Kirk, with copies of the guide for Philly Tech Week´s events.
Phila.'s tech scene is bubbling
Posted 04/27/2012
Partly it was just bad timing. Back in the '70s and '80s, when Apple and Microsoft and Oracle and Dell and the other tech behemoths were still babies, Philadelphia was dirty, overtaxed, and at that time clearly in decline. The city was the last place a young entrepreneur would choose to set up shop.
 
A punishing racial disparity in suburban schools - 04/15/2012
By Patrick Kerkstra, For The Inquirer
Urban flight isn't just for whites anymore. Middle- and upper-middle-class blacks are emptying out of big Northern cities - Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Cleveland - in huge numbers.
 
Phila.'s dying? Where's the data for that? - 04/06/2012
By Patrick Kerkstra, For The Inquirer
Is Philadelphia dying? It's an old question. Increasingly, it's also a stupid one. Philadelphia is not dying. And that fact is head-smackingly obvious both on the city's ever more vibrant streets and in the data.
Disease that nearly destroyed our city - 04/01/2012
By Miriam Hill, Inquirer Staff Writer
Q&A with Sam Katz: In 1793, yellow fever killed one in 10 Philadelphians. It was a tragic event.
 
Win or lose, Council has reassessment blues - 03/30/2012
City Council is afraid, and for a very good reason. Mayor Nutter has asked a chamber never known for courage to be brave and swallow the most politically poisonous pill in Philadelphia's recent history: a citywide property reassessment virtually guaranteed to infuriate lots of voters.
 
Judge did harm in the name of tolerance - 03/07/2012
Daily life in Tehran, Iran - where I was born and spent the first 13 years of my life - is frequently an elaborate cat-and-mouse game between citizens constantly pushing the cultural envelope and a repressive state bent on suffocating individuality. The stakes in this game can be very high.
 
Sharia law as bogeyman - 12/21/2011
Osama bin Laden is dead and al-Qaeda is reeling, but in the fevered and delirious minds of far too many, the United States is forever on the verge of becoming just another province in the ever-expanding Muslim caliphate.
 
Arizona law will be upheld - 12/15/2011
The U.S. Supreme Court did not have to commit itself, as it did Monday, to deciding the constitutionality of Arizona's anti-illegal immigration statute, Senate Bill 1070. The justices could have allowed the lower federal courts, which have temporarily enj


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