DEAD BEAT CITY
Philly is a snail when it comes to paying its bills
90% “of the more than 12,000 outside service contracts that the city signed from fiscal 2020 through January 2025” were paid late.
Stu Bykofsky
Book Review
Is the middle class dead and gone forever?
In framing the book, Dickerson puts the spotlight on her own parents, who did break into the middle class, where Dickerson finds herself today.
Donald J. Trump
What to know about the Trump gold coin
The back is a bald eagle in flight. Fleeing in embarrassment?
Kathy Hochul
NY gov needs the rich to pay the bills
“Maybe our first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring home,” she said.
War With Iran
CNN viewers say U.S. is LOSING the war. Please explain
Iran has lost control of its skies, the seas, its ability to fire ICBMs, its long-time Supreme Leader, almost everything but its bowels.
Michael J. Fox
Appreciating Michael J. Fox, the man
After a period of depression and boozing, he straightened out and launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the leading funder for research into fighting the disease.
Zionism
You need not be Jewish to be a Zionist
Anti-Semites manage to believe in contradictory myths — that Jews are the energy spreading world communism, while at the same time controlling Wall Street, the fountainhead of capitalism.
American Muslims
GOP congressman’s bigotry beats reason
What Ogles has done is blame an entire group for the misdeeds of a few. That is called guilt by association and that’s not how U.S. law works.
James Talarico
Radical Christian takes the stage in Texas
He supports trans women competing against biological women in sports, a hugely unpopular position.
Book Review
Riley: Affirmative action actually hurts black people
Without remorse, he parades a stunning set of statistics to prove, in his view, that blacks did better before affirmative actions, than after. In life, in education, on the job.
Iran war
Here is why it IS the United States’ war
Trump doesn’t take orders from Netanyahu — he gives them.
Wealth tax
A tax on billionaires is fair, kind of
Today, 1% of the households control 31% of American wealth, and this is the greatest ever. Some call this the New Gilded Age.