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Monica Yant Kinney

Camden's unmet need: Commitment

John Smallwood

Away from sports, and appreciating them more

Les Bowen

Assessing the Eagles at midseason

Paul Domowitch

NFL's first half teeming with winners and losers

John Baer

Scranton's mayor joins the gang who would be guv

Bill Conlin

It's time for the DH in the National League

Mark Alan Hughes

Franklin Field's new triple threat

Harry Gross

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NEWS

Fox News strangles open debate by firing a liberal Philly voice

I'm sure Fox News, cash cow that it is, doesn't need little ol' me to bolster its already fat ratings.

John Baer
Stu Bykofsky
Clout
Dave Davies
Annette John-Hall

Monica Yant Kinney
Ronnie Polaneczky
Jill Porter
Daniel Rubin
Karen Heller

SPORTS

Away from sports, and appreciating them more

I haven't been to a live sporting event since the Eagles' home opener. On Sept. 24, I had successful surgery to have two defective heart valves replaced. Then something went terribly wrong. I had complications, unrelated issues that turned a lifesaving procedure into a near-death experience.

Signs of trouble for Sixers

Bob Ford: These are not boom times for your 76ers, who opened the NBA season with modest expectations and are having trouble living up to those. But fans have allowed the team to perform their early rituals in relative solitude so as not to embarrass the group further.

Ed Barkowitz
Les Bowen
Sam Carchidi
Bill Conlin
Paul Domowitch
Sam Donnellon
Bernard Fernandez
Frank Fitzpatrick
Bob Ford
Ashley Fox
Mel Greenberg
Paul Hagen

Rich Hofmann
Phil Jasner
Dick Jerardi
Mike Kern
Joe Logan
Don McKee
Ed Moran
Tim Panaccio
Jim Salisbury
John Smallwood
Phil Sheridan
Ted Silary
Stan Hochman

FEATURES

The lesson from the streets: Big money is not the answer

Friends, what have we learned this past week? Plenty. Pundits will tell you that Chris Christie won New Jersey's gubernatorial race and Jon Corzine lost it because there's a backlash against President Obama's agenda.

'Collision': Stories from the crash

COLLISION. 9 p.m. Sunday, Channel 12. GAPER DELAY. Who hasn't slowed down to take at least a glance over the highway divider at someone else's very bad day?

Beefing up the hot dog

The possibilities of the classic American burger having been if not exhausted, certainly exhaustively explored (I give you the excessive foie gras-laden Whiskey King eight-ouncer, adorned with maple bourbon glazed cipollini, Rogue bleu cheese, and applewo

AIDS threat still raging

LIKE THE TITLE character in "Precious," the new Lee Daniels' film, this 14-year-old Philadelphia girl had been raped by a relative and infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Karla Klein Albertson
Jenice Armstrong
Sandy Bauers
Jim Coleman
Dan DeLuca
Tirdad Derakhshani
Peter Dobrin
Kimberly Garrison
Kellie Patrick Gates
Howard Gensler
Dan Gottlieb
Ellen Gray
Dan Gross
David Hiltbrand
Al Heavens
Mitchell Hecht
Karen Heller
Michael Klein
Craig LaBan

Alfred Lubrano
Dennis McCauley
Rick Nichols
Steven Rea
Carrie Rickey
Carlin Romano
Inga Saffron
Lisa Scottoline
Howard Shapiro
Joe Sixpack
Edward J. Sozanski
David Patrick Stearns
Steve and Mia
Jonathan Storm
Jonathan Takiff
Gary Thompson
Elizabeth Wellington
Toby Zinman

OPINION

A Phils Pitch-a-palooza!

CLIFF OR COLE? Hamels or Happ? The Phillies haven't even forced a Game 7 yet, but already the debate around town about who should start a final game has begun.