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Buzz Bissinger is the author of A Prayer for the City, an insider's account of the first mayoral term of the Rendell administration. Before that he worked at the Inquirer, where he covered politics and won a Pulitzer Prize with two other reporters for an investigation of the Philadelphia court system. He is the author of Friday Night Lights and Shooting Stars, co-written with LeBron James.

  Email Buzz at buzz.bissinger@gmail.com
Joe should have retired long ago, when his rep was enviable
By Buzz Bissinger, For the Daily News
Posted 01/27/2012
JOE PATERNO's death is no more or less tragic than any other death. All dying is sorrow. People should remember Paterno any way they choose, with prayers or love or tears or, yes, continued anger.
Video: Funeral procession for JoePa
Gallery: Saying goodbye to JoePa
 
Eulogy for a father
A runway ticket for US Airways
By Buzz Bissinger, For the Daily News
Posted 01/24/2012
Buzz Bissinger: "Leaked memo" imagines new ways to improve passengers' experience.
You're not on Queen Arlene's gift list - 12/07/2011
By Buzz Bissinger, For the Daily News
Buzz Bissinger: The Daily News columnist imagines the former superintendent's Christmas list ... to herself.
Bissinger: Where is the silence of tribute? - 09/09/2011
By Buzz Bissinger, For the Daily News
It's time again for the ugly 9/11 anniversary syndrome, but do we really need to be told what it means, asks Buzz Bissinger.
Bissinger: Mendte gives new meaning to phrase 'idiot box' - 05/20/2011
By Buzz Bissinger, For the Daily News
SIX WEEKS AGO, when I heard that Curt Weldon and Larry Mendte, the dumb and dumber of politics and the media, had taken it upon themselves to negotiate with Moammar Gadhafi, I knew that Christmas had come early.
Only the media could turn Bin Laden into a victim - 05/06/2011
By Buzz Bissinger, For the Daily News
ON SUNDAY, I received an email from a friend saying that Osama bin Laden had been killed by a team of Navy SEALs in a daring raid on a compound in Pakistan. I felt shock at first, convinced that after nearly 10 years of intense searching after 9/11, he would never be found, a dark ghost in a dark cave. Then I felt something about our country I have not felt in far too long:
I have a dream about the MLK High saga - 04/27/2011
By Buzz Bissinger, For the Daily News
Buzz Bissinger: I have a dream that the political crap that has been funneled down the collective throat of those of us still crazy enough to live in Philadelphia will suddenly cease.


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