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He's Baaack!

Now comes Rick Santorum's 15 minutes in the limelight. His showing in Iowa this week guarantees that.  With little money and no organization to speak of, the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania placed second in the Iowa caucuses, just eight... (Comments)

In the Shadow of the Towers

By Sean Breslin» On Sept. 11, 2001, I awoke on a couch to find my sister's college roommate flipping through the channels to find CNN to check out news about a plane crash in New York. She left the room to make coffee, and came back as Flight 175 slammed into the South Tower. That was the first time I ever felt truly fearful. I remember thinking that we were up against something unknown that thought nothing of killing us. I was in Denver when the attack happened, visiting my sister at college after a long road trip in my 1988 Honda Accord. My friends in South Jersey were taking bets on where I'd break down, and my father had offered to help pay for a plane ticket, worried about his (Comments)

My Philadelphia: West Philly

By S.G. Grant» We continue our series of Cover Stories on Philadelphia neighborhoods with S.G. Grant's essay about West Philadelphia. It's not the buildings and the businesses that attracts her, but the people -- in all their varied forms, colors and origins. Read on for Grant's census of modern West Philadelphia (Comments)

Taxing College Students to Help Public Students

  If the leaders of this city have the political courage it will take to do it, there is a way to raise millions to help the Philadelphia public schools from an untapped source of wealth. It will not cover the... (Comments)

An Annotated Guide to the May Primary

By Tom Ferrick Jr.» Philadelphia voters entering the booth on Tuesday will be confronted by about 100 names of people seeking seats for 11 offices, many of them judgeships of one kind or another. How to sort out this confusing mass of candidates? Metropolis is here to help with an annotated guide to the key races. We offer suggestions on who to vogte for an who to avoid at any cost. (Comments)