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"Getting a fix on the unfixable" - October 25, 2007
"Some of our problems are just unfixable" - October 15, 2007
"Time to play a little politics" - December 20, 2006
"Chaka is right where we need him" - November 30, 2006
"Smart thinking about a witless diss" - October 26, 2006
"Private planning is not a public good" - October 11, 2006
"A write-in revolution" - September 26, 2006
"Welfare as we know it" - August 22, 2006
"Monumental decision: what to glorify?" - August 15, 2006
"Our zoning deli: just take a number" - August 8, 2006
"A bigger game for Olympic bidders" - August 1, 2006
"Old vs New isn't Good vs Bad" - July 25, 2006
"No more metaphors" - July 19, 2006
"Violence and the soul of a city" - July 18, 2006
"The big theme for 2007" - July 11, 2006
"Redeploy our Olympic troops" - June 23, 2006
"Sound as a dollar" - June 13, 2006
"A towering challenge" - June 6, 2006
"Newspapers: forget the "public trust" hooey" - May 30, 2006
"Our gun crisis: call in the NRA" - May 23, 2006
"Beating the post-oil drum" - May 16, 2006
"Driven to distraction" - May 9, 2006
"Inherit the wind" - May 2, 2006
"Back to the drawing board" - April 25, 2006
"Twilight zoning" - March 27, 2006
"Housing reorg: too little, too late" - March 7, 2006
"My turn at playing ward-heeler" - February 28, 2006
"Potential plus for new school rule" - February 21, 2006
"How to save the newspaper biz" - February 14, 2006
"A way to drop the dropout rate" - February 7, 2006
"Destroying City Hall in order to save it" - January 31, 2006
""Da Vinci Code" crackers" - January 24, 2006
"Better schools: the real estate connection" - January 10, 2006
"The '07 Mayoral Countdown" - January 5, 2006
"Of lame ducks and goosing tax reform" - December 20, 2005
"Liberal argument for city tax cut" - December 15, 2005
"The Case for the Park Commission" - December 13, 2005
"The best of times---for murder" - December 6, 2005
"Tough parking, tastier Center City" - November 29, 2005
"Trying to derail CSX's arrogance" - November 15, 2005
"Eminent Domain: another juicy issue for the right" - November 8, 2005
"What they should've asked Judge Roberts" - September 27, 2005
"Nagging New Orleans Question" - September 20, 2005
"Even Katrina can blow some good" - September 13, 2005
"What Chicago has that we need" - September 6, 2005
"End of grass as we know it" - August 30, 2005
"Cash in that real estate jackpot" - August 23, 2005
"Limits of reforming Philly" - August 16, 2005
"Property tax primer" - August 9, 2005
"Right stuff for the next mayor " - August 2, 2005
"At sports venues, painful last mile" - July 26, 2005
"Calm before the reassessment storm" - July 19, 2005
"A little praise and a little prediction" - July 12, 2005
"Tax-abatement sticker shock " - July 5, 2005
"Life after NTI" - June 28, 2005
"Time in the Life of a City" - June 21, 2005
"Studying Black History is Good for All of Us" - June 14, 2005
"The Naked Truth about NTI" - June 7, 2005
"Going "John Brown" on Pay to Play" - May 13, 2005
"My John Street problem---and ours" - October 21, 2003
"Contingency plan" - October 17, 2003
"Like it or not, a clarifying moment" - October 14, 2003
"Blight: managed -- and mismanaged" - October 7, 2003
"The candidate who isn't really there" - September 30, 2003
"Ed Schwartz spices up the mayor's race" - September 23, 2003
"How to have even Safer Streets" - September 15, 2003
"Tough guys need not apply" - September 9, 2003
"What the left hand giveth..." - September 2, 2003
"The Parkway's lessons for the blight fight" - July 23, 2003
"The rich living on a fixed income" - July 8, 2003
"SEPTA's brilliant/dumb strategy" - July 1, 2003
"The pedestrian preservation act" - June 24, 2003
"Corrupt and contented, 100 years later" - June 17, 2003
"Saidel ledger-demain in aid of the city" - June 10, 2003
"Gamble in a Huff" - June 3, 2003
"Turning politics into a spectator sport" - May 27, 2003
"Philadelphia's valuable foot fetish" - May 20, 2003
""Smart growth" right here in our own backyard" - May 14, 2003
"Who "deserves": to be the next mayor?" - May 7, 2003
"Just call him Senator Know-Nothing" - April 29, 2003
"Electricians union ad gave me a jolt " - April 22, 2003
"Shutting up protest: the coward's way out" - April 8, 2003
"Dead heat means a very lively race" - April 1, 2003