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Elmer Smith is a member of the Daily News Editorial Board.

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Writing's been a job, but hardly work
Posted 09/23/2011
After 22 years of being a columnist, Elmer Smith says goodbye to a job that he says is, "too much fun to call it work."
SRC is all smiles when Mayor Nutter announced appointments of Irizarry and Archie (right).
Nutter offers faint praise to exiting SRC members
Posted 09/20/2011
Elmer Smith: In a cozy corner of school district headquarters, Archie, state Rep. Dwight Evans, a representative of Mosaica and then-deputy superintendent Leroy Nunery held their own meeting
 
Nutter names new SRC member
 
Inquirer editorial: Entire SRC ought to resign
 
Elmer Smith: Exit, with faint praise
The balls bounce different ways - 09/16/2011
THERE IS a tacit agreement between a man and a woman when he takes her out for the evening. The implied contract is that, no matter how the date goes, he will return her safely. We learn it as boys, hopefully before our first date.
On Labor Day, don't forget the movement - 09/02/2011
A PANEL of experts spent an hour of TV time last month debating this weighty issue: Is organized labor really a special interest?
Time for Ackerman to get specific with her accusations - 08/26/2011
Elmer Smith: In an interview on Thursday, Arlene Ackerman said she had "been asked to do things that are totally unconscionable."
Ackerman's gone, but problems - and SRC - remain - 08/23/2011
Elmer Smith: The School Reform Comission couldn't dismiss Arlene Ackerman for cause without implicating themselves.
To Obama: Rest up, then fight back - 08/19/2011
TODAY'S reader-poll question is whether President Obama should be taking a vacation while so many Americans are out of work.
Playing the racist/not a racist game - 08/05/2011
Elmer Smith: Another public figure is hauled before the people's court for an arguably racist remark.
Freedom from public education? - 07/29/2011
STATE REP. Mark Longietti shuffled through his sheaf of papers and pulled up the study that summed up his concerns about expanding school choice.
News of Butch Lewis' passing packs a punch - 07/26/2011
Elmer Smith: He was the original little big man, a fierce boardroom brawler who'd strip you clean in a bargaining session, then become your most trusted partner when the deal was done.
In Somalia, a vicious cycle of drought, famine and war - 07/22/2011
THE ARMED Somali thugs pledge their allegiance to different warlords now from those they did when I was there to witness the famine of 1992.
Flood warning for Pa. & private liquor sales - 07/15/2011
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., would look like Manhattan on steroids by now if every dime from the Johnstown flood tax had gone to rebuilding it.
MORE STORIES
Got a 'Pledge'? GOPers will sign it - 07/12/2011
Deficit-reduction will be a booby-hatched plan - 07/08/2011
Don't like the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial? Don't blame the jury - 07/06/2011
City-school agreement creates education a la carte - 06/24/2011
Why keep spending on these school cyberfailures? - 06/21/2011
Weiner resigns, but only after porn star spoke up - 06/17/2011
Amendment won't solve the homeless problem - 06/14/2011
So weary of boys behaving badly - 06/10/2011


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