How the politicized use of public funds results in rampant waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
By Ben Mannes
Paul Davis: Biden lets Philly murderer Kaboni Savage off of death row
President Biden’s parting gift to America was to pardon or commute the sentences of scores of violent criminals. One of the criminals whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison was Kaboni Savage, a major Philadelphia drug dealer who ordered multiple murders, including the murder of four children. Retaliating […]
Will Sunday and Trump spell trouble for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office?
In the last two weeks of his administration, then-President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian honor, to Democratic megadonor George Soros. While the 94-year old billionaire was not able to attend, his son Alex Soros, recently engaged to Hillary Clinton deputy Huma Abedin, accepted […]
David Reel: The consequences of America’s broken moral compass
A dictionary definition of a moral compass is a set of beliefs or values that help guide ethical decisions, judgments, and behavior, an internal sense of what is right and wrong. A dictionary definition of broken is something that is no longer whole or working correctly. As has been reported […]
Delco prison employee with felony drug record now under investigation for smuggling contraband
(Jan 29, 2025 Update: A spokesperson from the Delaware County District Attorney’s office said a subsequent lab investigation showed “no controlled substances were found. As a result, the case was closed,” and no charges were filed in this matter.) A prison employee at the Delaware County prison is currently under […]
From the Editors: Pennsylvania’s crime statistics shouldn’t be open to retroactive edits
Collecting crime data has always been difficult and will always likely remain so. But just because collecting crime statistics is difficult doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done — it absolutely should. Yet one troubling fact about Pennsylvania’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) database stands out to us as needing a change. […]
Paul Davis: Schools need metal detectors to prevent classroom shootings
I was a student at South Philadelphia High School in the late 1960s. Southern, as the school was called locally, was a rough school back then. Race relations in Philadelphia were at an historical low and there were fights in the school nearly every day between black and white students. […]
Paul Davis: It’s Christmas time in the city — my interview with Santa
The weekend of the 13th was a bad time for Philadelphia, as dozens of victims were shot in several criminal shootings across the city. One bad shooting occurred near the Rothman Ice Rink in Dilworth Park on Friday night. The police suspect that both the shooters and victims are students […]
Paul Davis: Arrested — suspected thief is alleged to have stolen more than $160,000 worth of items from parked cars.
Some years ago, I discovered that my parked car in South Philadelphia had been broken into and several items had been stolen. My wife’s sunglasses, a couple of CDs and some change had been taken from the front seat. And three items on the back seat floor that my wife […]
Christine Flowers: There are no ‘ex-Marines’
My Uncle Louie, the Marine. Eighty-three years ago, our national innocence was shattered. Some might call it inertia, given the fact that the rest of the world had been at war for years. We tried to ignore it, but when the bombs came crashing down in fiery meteors on our […]