Ronnie Polaneczky has been an award-winning columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News since 1999, offering a front-steps perspective on every aspect of city life, from the sublime to the stupid. In her past life, she was the editor-in-chief of Atlantic City Magazine, associate editor at Philadephia Magazine and a fulltime freelancer published in Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, MarieClaire and others. She lives with her husband, daughter, dog, two cats and hermit crab in the city's Fairmount section. You can also read Ronnie's blog, So, What Happened Was... and even enjoy her musings in podcast form.
Email Ronnie at polaner@phillynews.com
All those bucks would mean nothing if they weren't shared. That's what lots of buyers said Thursday.
- Gosnell jury saw the truth
- Prevent more Gosnells by increasing birth-control access
- Pro-life, pro-choice agree on only one thing: Gosnell's guilty
Ronnie Polaneczky: Broadening access to birth control among low-income women reduces abortion rates.
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Journey back from hell
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Michelle Knight never would've fled her life. Why did people assume she did?
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Sex, drugs and contraband: Are city prisons out of control?
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Ronnie Polaneczky: What's the difference between those behind the bars and those paid to look after them? Sometimes, it's hard to tell.
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A sign of change: Bye bandit ads!
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Ronnie Polaneczky: The Streets Department plans to tackle illegal ad benches, then zero in on bandit signs.
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Cop to road-rage victim: Scram
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Ronnie Polaneczky: ATTENTION, MOTORISTS: Be on the lookout for a hotheaded driver on Roosevelt Boulevard who'll knock your teeth out if you diss him.
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Boys, booze and rape: Why are victims responsible?
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Lost in last week's attention on the Boston Marathon bombings and the Texas fertilizer-plant explosion was the news that a grand jury had been chosen to investigate the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case.
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When loved ones do the unthinkable
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Ronnie Polaneczky: I can't attest to the strength of the family ties of alleged Boston bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. But the connection was important enough that on Thursday one of the brothers telephoned their uncle, Alvi Tsarni, to plead, "Forgive me."
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Readers help fulfill dying woman's wish
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Ronnie Polaneczky: No one gets out of this life alive. But not everyone thinks about that as often as Linda Belz does. She's the 30-year-old ovarian-cancer patient I wrote about last week.
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Dieting for dollars
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Wanna gamble online? Trying betting on your own weight loss.
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A dying wish to pay for her own funeral
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Ronnie Polaneczky: If you knew you were going to die, what would be your last wish?
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College: For many, expensive pay-to-play
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Ronnie Polaneczky: What if more employers stopped making a college degree a requirement for a job hire?
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