Monica Yant Kinney joined the Inquirer in 1996 and was named a metro columnist in 2001 at the age of 30. She puts so many miles on her car roaming the region she finally bought a Prius. Monica has covered suburban trends and Philadelphia city government and, for two years, focused exclusively on crime, color and characters of South Jersey. In the early 1990s, she expensed her cable bill while she was the television critic at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida. Monica is a 1993 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. She grew up in Fort Wayne, Ind., but now lives with her husband (a fellow Notre Dame grad), and their two young children in a very old house in Haddonfield.
Her column appears Sundays and Wednesdays in Local & Region.
Reach her by phone, 215-854-4670. Friend her on Facebook (www.facebook/monicayantkinney) or follow her on Twitter (http://twitter.com/myantkinney)
Email Monica at myant@phillynews.com
- More clergy abuse trial
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A gunman, but also a victim
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Monica Yant Kinney: In 2009, Tyree Bush fired a 9mm gun at a man heading to a store to buy diapers.
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Catholic families chafe at schools mergers
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So many parents and alumni of St. Denis Catholic School in Havertown supported merging with friendly CYO rival Annunciation B.V.M., the marriage should have gone off without a hitch. Instead, parishioners hoping to embrace the past and future in a name were told the regional school would honor the late Cardinal John Foley. The decision was, in their pastor’s words, “nonnegotiable.”
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Doorman extends a white-gloved hand
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Monica Yant Kinney: A dapper doorman's blinding- white nylon gloves single-handedly class up Philly.
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Giving landlords access to tenants’ bank accounts
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To dwell in an apartment is to be free of snow shoveling but beholden to a company that raids your savings and invades your privacy.
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A non-jock 'wins' in Broad Street Run
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Monica Yant Kinney: This time last year, I’d never clocked more than an hour pounding pavement.
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Another casino? It's a game for suckers
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Monica Yant Kinney: Nothing requires the Pa. Gaming Control Board to issue the final license.
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Home of hardware's past
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Monica Yant-Kinney: Old home lovers have looked everywhere by the time they wander into Fern Rock Hardware. They come for the humblest of plumbing products, the brass shower stem.
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Taking daughter to work isn't much excitement for the young one
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The assignment was a killer: Show my daughter a typical day of work when there is no such thing, in a job where much of what I encounter is not age-appropriate.
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Schools team up on 'Something Magical'
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Monica Yant Kinney: Germantown Friends and a school for the disabled stage a production.
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