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All I want for the New Year is an end to the “new normal.”
By Richard Koenig
Congressman pushes back on Pennsylvania bridge tolling plan
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by Victor Skinner
Gabe Kaminsky: Philly’s indoor dining vax mandate hurts everyone
Philadelphia’s new vaccine mandates are anti-common good and anti-science
By Gabe Kaminsky
Thom Nickels: What Philadelphia was like the last time it had a 500 murder year
Philadelphia’s murder rate is now worse than it was in 1990. Here is one Philly writer’s account of what the state of crime looked like three decades ago.
By Thom Nickels
Carl Marrara: The biggest Pa. business story of 2021 you haven’t heard about
A Texas-based company will be building a mammoth natural gas plant in Luzerne County. Unheralded by the media, it’s time to celebrate a monumental investment for workers in Northeast Pa.
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Stu Bykofsky: Larry Krasner’s bait-and-switch scheme
A former Municipal Court employee says Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is running a cynical game when it comes to requesting bail amounts.
“His tactic was a trick to force magistrates to lower bail to normal levels — and then blame them for rising crime.”
by Stu Bykofsky