It’s very easy to politicize what is around us. I fight that urge, too. Whenever accusations about cops and misdeeds make their way into headlines, most of us either rush to defend them or revile them. Wherever we rush to usually has to do with what camp we most align: either (A) policing is damn [...]

I’m no serious driver, but I’m fascinated by car culture in all its forms. Like the severity with which parking is taken in many urban neighborhoods in even transited cities, Philadelphia certainly included. My own new neighborhood of Fishtown has all the makings of a fight to be had: long-time residents, a conflicting gentrifying population, [...]

I reported on a wrongful termination suit and received a double-byline, front-page story in today’s Metro in Philadelphia. [He] wears women’s clothes because he says they better show off his feminine features. Read the rest here. The Metro story has been kicked offline, but you can find coverage in the Inquirer here. Pick up a [...]

I seem to recall seeing some petty ugly things written on Domeights, the online forum for the Philadelphia police community that was shut down by its owner after the threat of legal action. Of course, I also remember a lot of mundane content, jokes, commentary and other arcane back-and-forth that is the staple of most [...]

Well that was a lot about nothing, no? A Web site, Fire John Yoo is tracking all the news of the now dying coverage of John Yoo, who wrote controversial legal notices on torture during the Bush administration, and the virtriol surrounding his being retained as an op-ed columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. There were [...]