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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
- Gallery: Memorial Day 2012
- A day for remembering
- Honoring soldiers of color on the Parkway
- Is "thank you" loaded?
Ronnie Polaneczky: There’s a national sense that soldiers fighting abroad are to be honored.
- Is "thank you" loaded?
Ronnie Polaneczky: Five generations of family have worked at Ralph's, founded in 1900. This week, it became known as the oldest Italian restaurant in the U.S. after a San Francisco restaurant that previously held the designation folded.
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New law needed to stop school sex abuse
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Ronnie Polaneczky: It's too easy for schools to let the accused quietly leave to abuse again in a new place.
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More tales of parking ticket woes
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Erin Bagley had proof her parking ticket was wrong. Did the examiner listen?
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Can a sex-offender ever have a fresh start?
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Ronnie Polaneczky: I won’t lie. When Dale Bickerstaff asked me to tell his story, I flinched.
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Hoping for gift of life
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Of the many tasks readers have asked me to help with (I once got a penniless dead woman buried, for example), I never imagined that procuring an organ might be among them.
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Chestnut Hill's change of heart
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Chestnut Hill College reverses its original decision and is allowing a cancer-stricken graduate student to walk at commencement.
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College rigid on patient's request
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Maybe Chestnut Hill College officials don't know what cancer is like.
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Tweet from Nutter's aide: 'matter of ethics'
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Polaneczky: Press secretary Mark McDonald suggests PPA columns were personal. Ronnie barks back.
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Old receipt ticket to fighting PPA
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Who knew that a receipt - any old receipt - might have helped Todd Bernstein out?
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Maybe college isn't everything
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Ronnie Polaneczky: The biggest contributors to the tyranny of college debt are employers themselves.
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School's closing good for East Falls?
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Ronnie Polaneczky: A public school gets renewed attention with St. Bridget's impending closure.
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