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"BUILT: Why Copenhagen mattered" - December 23, 2009
"BUILT: Why Copenhagen matters" - December 2, 2009
"BUILT: Franklin Field's new triple threat" - November 11, 2009
"BUILT: High Concept" - October 28, 2009
"BUILT: Church of the Transformation" - October 14, 2009
"BUILT: Everyone's a Critic" - September 30, 2009
"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
"How a rec center can enhance civilization " - March 25, 2003
"Shooting is the easy part" - March 19, 2003
"Sit down, turn on, tune in" - March 18, 2003
"A win-win fantasy for Memorial Hall" - March 11, 2003
"The real lessons of Chestnut St. and SUVs" - March 4, 2003
"How not to deal with Section 8" - February 25, 2003
"Michael Nutter hit by white flight" - February 18, 2003
"The gesture that all SUV drivers deserve" - February 11, 2003
"The mayor, the blight fight & the election" - February 4, 2003
"Mayor's math falls short" - January 31, 2003
"Not all population numbers created equal" - January 28, 2003
"It's not about Street--it's about us" - January 21, 2003
"A billion dollar transportation fantasy" - January 14, 2003
"Chestnut Street closing a blow to freedom" - January 7, 2003
"Politics 2003: Ready to rumble" - December 30, 2002
"There's hope yet for Ebenezer Street" - December 24, 2002
"When saving buildings means saving souls" - December 17, 2002
"Street's endgame on property tax reform" - December 10, 2002
"Why tolerance needs order" - December 3, 2002
"Let's play "mayoral make-believe"" - November 26, 2002
"Tricky property tax politics" - November 19, 2002
"How the Dems can sell themselves" - November 12, 2002
"If Ed Rendell wins..." - November 5, 2002
"3 rules for any new blight czar" - October 29, 2002
"Blight fight: 3 years and counting" - October 22, 2002
"Making a do-good transportation decision" - October 15, 2002
"The big convention center question" - October 8, 2002
"A golden opportunity for the land tax" - October 1, 2002
"Reassessment politics: winners and losers" - September 24, 2002
"Cleaning up the reassessment mess" - September 17, 2002
"Civic virtue and the bottom line" - September 10, 2002
"Property-tax hikes: blessing in disguise" - September 3, 2002
"Reparations: just make out the check" - August 27, 2002
"The mayor, the Center, and Richard Nixon" - August 20, 2002
"What I learned from last week's column" - August 13, 2002
"Is the mayor playing with racial fire?" - August 6, 2002
"How would you label City Hall's portals? " - July 30, 2002
"A clash of colors--and of values " - July 16, 2002
"The Mayor and the city's white liberals" - July 9, 2002
"Hubris and the mayor's Achille's Heel" - July 2, 2002
"Protecting the American way of life" - June 25, 2002
"Good ideas that play out of town" - June 18, 2002
"Philadelphia, in three easy pieces" - June 11, 2002
"What Safe Streets can teach the blight fight" - June 4, 2002
"The mass transit project that could make our day" - May 28, 2002
"The Cohen bill proves tax reform lives" - May 21, 2002
"The force is with him" - May 14, 2002
"Earthquake in L.A." - May 7, 2002
"Life after graffiti" - April 30, 2002
"LOVE Park and the art of governing" - April 23, 2002
"The real man behind the curtain" - April 16, 2002
"Cutting taxes (and maybe services)" - April 8, 2002
"The prodigal son returns" - April 2, 2002
"What's behind the tax revolt?" - March 26, 2002
"Ed Schwartz is wrong on the wage tax" - March 19, 2002
"Blackwell "tax cut": a dead end Street" - March 12, 2002
"Saving our Civil War legacy" - March 5, 2002
"Blight plan: worth the cost?" - March 1, 2002
"Tax revolt: building critical mass" - February 26, 2002
"Tax revolt: what's in it for the poor?" - February 19, 2002
"Let the tax revolt begin!" - February 12, 2002
"City taxes: welcome to the bad old days" - February 5, 2002
"Wanted: a qualified blight-meister" - January 31, 2002
"A simple way to cut taxes" - January 29, 2002
"Magic of the Earned Income Credit" - January 22, 2002
"Once again, it's back to the future" - January 17, 2002
"Traffic enforcement: let's get serious" - January 15, 2002
"Why it's wrong, wrong, wrong" - January 8, 2002
"Willard Rouse, master builder" - December 18, 2001
"Blight bill same old song and dance?" - December 13, 2001
"City Trusts need busting" - December 11, 2001
"Best l'il blight legislation in Philly" - December 4, 2001
"Good news about Saidel's tax plan" - November 27, 2001
"Virtue not enough to foot the bills" - November 20, 2001
"In pursuit of rich folks" - November 13, 2001
"The ultimate "blowback"" - November 6, 2001
"Our secret weapon against terror" - October 30, 2001
"Is Mayor holding city blight hostage?" - October 23, 2001
"Mayor's blight plan: get the show on the road" - October 15, 2001
"The French connection" - October 9, 2001
"City's stuck in the mire of blight" - October 2, 2001
"Is this the end of "Wall St."?" - September 25, 2001
"Aligning ourselves with the rest of the world" - September 18, 2001
"For America, it's Dec. 8, 2001" - September 13, 2001
"Philly schools: watch the contract" - September 11, 2001
"Blight plan: looking back--and forward" - September 4, 2001
"Unions need to be more constructive" - August 28, 2001
"A modest proposal for Philly politics" - August 21, 2001
"Right, blight fight is no child's game " - August 3, 2001
"City response to "sweeping proposal"" - August 1, 2001
"A sweeping proposal" - July 31, 2001
"Our blight plan is about to see the light of day" - July 27, 2001
"Top our blight plan" - July 17, 2001
"Earned Income Credit: a success story" - July 10, 2001
"Why those little yellow tags matter" - July 5, 2001
"How dismantling the school district could save Philadelphia" - June 22, 2001
"The other blight fight" - June 19, 2001
"Sixers vs. Lakers: The Colosseum lives!" - June 12, 2001
"What we can learn from the school system" - June 5, 2001
"Our parks: Where's the vision?" - May 30, 2001
"Why we're Philly---and not Paris" - May 15, 2001
"Don't let traffic put Philly in a jam" - May 8, 2001
"The genius of John Street" - May 1, 2001
"Blight plan caught mapping" - April 24, 2001
"Focus Blight Fight on worst spots" - April 17, 2001
"Fight traffic jams (and win high-tech biz!)" - April 11, 2001
"The surprising lessons of Center City" - April 4, 2001
"Ball’s in your court, Mr. Mayor" - March 28, 2001
"Center City parking: There are lots to be done" - March 23, 2001
"Being right about the Christian white" - March 12, 2001
"The city that makes me love it back" - March 7, 2001
"And the charisma to be mayor" - February 22, 2001
"Blight: Let’s take a regional approach" - February 16, 2001
"Welfare reform’s other shoe" - February 6, 2001
"The right guy for God czar" - January 31, 2001
"An antidote for our wage-tax woes" - January 29, 2001
"Where city outpaces burbs" - December 26, 2000
"When the winners are really the losers" - December 14, 2000
"What a president can’t do" - December 7, 2000
"The real Section 8 bad guys" - November 29, 2000
"2004: A Clinton Odd-yssey" - November 13, 2000
"Redefining urban and the value of cities" - November 1, 2000
"Why Chinatown doesn’t matter" - October 23, 2000
"Why Chinatown matters" - October 16, 2000
"How to Save a Congressman for Philly" - October 10, 2000
"The ugly business of funding mass transit" - October 5, 2000
"Big Pretzel, meet Big Apple" - September 28, 2000
"Blight fight needs someone with bite" - August 31, 2000
"Why welfare reform is working here" - August 22, 2000
"Do cities REALLY matter?" - August 1, 2000
"Let Philadelphia go" - July 25, 2000
"Want to grow Philadelphia? A plan would help" - June 12, 2000
"Expectations, not mayors, make a great city" - May 10, 2000
"New stadium: Hit or an error?" - March 23, 2000
"City needs a fresh approach to dealing with vacant property (from The Philadelphia Inquirer)" - May 23, 1999
"Philadelphia must seize reins of its runaway decline (from The Philadelphia Inquirer)" - May 7, 1998
"Philadelphia, state should strike deal to make welfare reform work (from The Philadelphia Inquirer)" - May 14, 1997
"Facing the welfare-reform storm: Philadelphia better start bailing (from The Philadelphia Inquirer)" - December 16, 1996
"Welfare Dust Bowl (from The Washington Post)" - September 25, 1996



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