Daily News - Ronnie Polaneczky http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky RSS Feed for DN Col Ronnie Polaneczky en-us Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:47:57 GMT Ronnie Polaneczky: FOR DISABLED & TAXIS, LIFE IS SIMPLY NOT FARE http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120216_Ronnie_Polaneczky__FOR_DISABLED___TAXIS__LIFE_IS_SIMPLY_NOT_FARE.html I'VE NEVER been more grateful for my two good feet than I was after attending yesterday's public hearing about the need for more wheelchair-accessible taxicabs. Ronnie Polaneczky: Dinner for the homeless, with a side of dignity http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120214_Ronnie_Polaneczky__Dinner_for_the_homeless__with_a_side_of_dignity.html THE WORD "dignified" isn't often used to describe how the homeless sate their hunger in Philly. There is nothing dignified about fishing food scraps from the trash. Or begging outside Wawa for a sandwich. Or lining up with others on Logan Circle hoping that the soup being ladled by Good Samaritans won't run out before everyone's bowl is filled. Ronnie Polaneczky: A dim picture of city crime http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120207_Ronnie_Polaneczky_.html THIS IS ONE of those columns that began as one thing but turned into something else midway through the fact-gathering. Ronnie Polaneczky: Bevilacqua: Not a predator, but worse http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120202_Ronnie_Polaneczky_.html NINE YEARS AGO, my husband took a photo of our daughter, when she was in kindergarten, with Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua. Ronnie Polaneczky: School choice? Practice what you preach, Chaput http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120131_Ronnie_Polaneczky__School_choice__Practice_what_you_preach__Chaput.html CATHOLIC Schools Week began yesterday with a plea from Philly Archbishop Charles Chaput for Catholics to push for passage of a school-voucher bill that would let parents choose where to spend education dollars. Ronnie Polaneczky: Two agonizing weeks for drowning victim's kin http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120126_Ronnie_Polaneczky_.html MOST FAMILIES of missing loved ones are desperate to know what happened to them. Not the family of Bridesburg's Joseph "Babe" McGeehan. They knew within 48 hours of his disappearance that his car had gone into the Delaware. Yet it took another 13 days to retrieve his body. Ronnie Polaneczky: This is what I call 'manning up' http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120124_Ronnie_Polaneczky___I_M_SO_SORRY_.html THERE are mistakes. And then there are MISTAKES. Devon Edwards made a MISTAKE Saturday night. As managing editor of Onward State, an independent, Penn State-oriented blog run by PSU students, he tweeted that Joe Paterno had died of lung cancer. Ronnie Polaneczky: Ex-state aide's sexually dysfunctional views http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120119_Ronnie_Polaneczky__Ex-state_aide_s_sexually_dysfunctional_views.html IN ROBERT PATTERSON'S Ozzie-and-Harriet world, we women would all be stay-at-home mamas, whelping litters of babies and having lots of condom-free sex with our husbands. Ronnie Polaneczky: The fine line that Mia lives on: Should she be denied a vital kidney transplant? http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120117_Ronnie_Polaneczky_.html IF YOU DON'T know the name Amelia Rivera, you will soon. Her story is going viral as I type this. Ronnie Polaneczky: Hounds from hell: Wring out your dead http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120112_Ronnie_Polaneczky_.html YOU KNOW the saying, "The only thing certain is death and taxes"? After hearing about Jack Fitzpatrick, I think "and PPA bureaucracy" ought to be added into that famous maxim.