Opinion
Letters to the Editor (March 6, 2013)
Leave the Pennypack train trestle alone The assertion that the Pennypack Bridge train trestle is an eyesore is ludicrous. The trestle has an old-world, rustic-type charm ... Full story
Letters to the Editor (February 27, 2013)
Dump patronage jobs to keep taxes low While waiting nervously for my new estimated tax under the city’s proposed AVI (after three straight years of property ... Full story
Editorial (February 27, 2013)
AVI: All Very Interesting Mayor Nutter calls the long-needed overhaul of the city’s property tax system the Actual Value Initiative or AVI. Those three initials could just ... Full story
Letters to the Editor (February 20, 2013)
ATF aka The Population Control Bureau We pay people (lobbyists) to bribe our government officers to keep America’s three deadliest sins legal in this country. Alcohol — ... Full story
Whew!
Could you hear the sound of fellow Northeast residents exhaling last week as more information began to emerge about the new property tax assessments? The figures ... Full story
Letters to the Editor (February 13, 2013)
Northwood Frankford Community Y needs help As you may have heard, our community has regained possession of the Frankford Y! We’ve renamed it the Northwood Frankford ... Full story
A bad bet
Sometime over the last 41 years, the Pennsylvania Lottery has become as much a part of our daily lives as listening to the radio on ... Full story
Traffic Court must go
The other shoe dropped at Philadelphia’s Traffic Court and to us it sounded more like a sneaker hitting the carpet than a combat boot hitting ... Full story
Letters to the Editor (February 6, 2013)
She wants to fix the Traffic Court mess I’m wondering if they are looking for help at Philadelphia Traffic Court, since it seems many of their ... Full story
Letters to the editor Jan. 30, 2013
Just go after the tax dodgers, Mr. MayorMayor Nutter continues to cry that he does not have money for the schools and that our city ... Full story
Schwartz discusses decision to run for governor
U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz said Monday she decided to enter the governor’s race, even though history is not on her side, because she thinks Gov. ... Full story
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