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Scandal at Traffic Court

What a shock.  It seems there is politics involved in Traffic Court. If you are politically connected you get treated one way; if you are not shut up and pay your fine. Did money change hands as part of the... (Comments)

A Bold, Brazen Item

To use a phrase favored by my nuns, Myron Berman is a bold, brazen item. In 1999, Berman, a New York real estate guy and principal owner of an office building at 7th and Spring Garden Streets, had crews erect... (Comments)

Goodbye, Mumia, Goodbye

The odds are that Mumia Abu-Jamal has made his last appearance on the front page and that it a good thing. The case of the man who shot and killed Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner 30 years ago today (Dec.... (Comments)

My Philadelphia: Lawndale

Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods and Metropolis is celebrating that fundamental Philly trait with six essays by some of our best writers about the places where they live. We also have collected work by local photographers, who live to shoot the city -- warts and all. Look for them at the end of each essay. My Philadelphia opens with Elizabeth McGinley writing about Lawndale, her adopted neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia. (Comments)

Atop the White Tower

The first time I walked into the Inquirer building was in 1970 when I was a Temple student working the summer as an intern at the paper.  To say it was grungy is to be kind.  The paper's owner,... (Comments)