Last month, my neighborhood helped to make Philadelphia the largest city in the country with a legally-sanctioned casino. SugarHouse Casino opened in mid-September, as scheduled. The six-year battle to bring casinos to Philadelphia is not one I want to remark much on. If you want to hear argue for or against the existence of casinos [...]

A few times a month, I go out to civic and town watch meetings in a variety of neighborhoods. Yes, I actually find most of them to be fun — local politics on the smallest of scale. Since moving to Fishtown, I’ve begun going to monthly Fishtown Action and Fishtown Neighbors Meetings and filing reports [...]

Pick up a copy of today’s Metro Philadelphia, in which I have a story. Unfortunately, it’s currently not online. Metro, the international newspaper group with a successful outlet in Philadelphia, recently dropped AP content. Though they still use Reuters and other wire services, losing the largest means perhaps more opportunity for interested freelancers. So I [...]