In this fast-paced, ever-changing election, with switching candidates, changing themes, fact-checkers who don’t really fact-check, world-events, rallies, fake news and fake transcripts, McDonald’s and garbage trucks…there are understandably columns that I didn’t get to finish. Notes on paper and my iPad, scribbled on the back on fliers, pizza boxes, and […]
John E. Coffey: Sorry, friend. I can’t come along on Tuesday.
I have the great opportunity and burden of being a Pennsylvania voter. But I am no longer a reliably partisan one. So old friends now assign me monikers like, “baffling” and “Devil’s middleman” in their correspondence. Some ask for an explanation. Here it is. Objections to my drift from the […]
David P. Hardy: Philadelphia teachers — like their students — want educational choice
Philadelphia schools recently adopted a new multimillion-dollar curriculum — and district teachers sound mad as hell about it. The School District of Philadelphia recently rolled out its $25 million English Language Arts (ELA) program for the 2024–25 school year. According to a recent article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, teachers have […]
Christine Flowers: Opinions — everybody has one
An opinion is like an appendix: everyone has one, it serves no particular purpose, most of the time it’s completely ignored and you only notice it when it’s removed. This is exactly what occurred to me when I observed the manufactured controversy involving Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post editorial […]