I rather mockingly tweeted, on Sunday around 11:30 AM: Since there are no stories about homicides on the @PhillyInquirer‘s website main page, should I assume that no one was killed in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend? — Dana Pico (@Dana_Pico on gab.com) (@Dana_TFSJ) May 2, 2021 At 10:33 AM EDT this morning, I […]
When you have been married for 41 years, 11 months and 7 days, as my wife and I have — but who’s counting, right? — a six-month anniversary seems pretty inconsequential, something that you remember like six-months of dating or you first six months of being married.[1]Actually, we got married just six months and two […]
Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump 3,458,229 (50.01%) to 3,377,674 (48.84%) in Pennsylvania, but in Philadelphia County, Mr Biden’s margin was 603,790 (81.44%) to 132,740 (17.90%), 471,050 votes, far greater than the 81,660 votes by which President Trump lost the Keystone State. I think it fair to say that Philadelphia is a very heavily Democratic area. […]
I confess: it might seem that my many referrals to The Philadelphia Enquirer Inquirer may seem close to an obsession, but, let’s face it, the paper seems to provide more silliness and stupidity every single day. You’ll love this one! Stereotypes of larger Black men still persist at the Derek Chauvin trial Research shows that […]
We noted last week that the Lexington Herald-Leader declined to post the freely available mug shot of a suspected murderer on its website, even though all of the other media sources in that fair city did so, and I speculated — and yes, that is the correct word — that the editorial decision not to […]
One way that you can tell that Donald Trump is no longer President of the United States is to read The Philadelphia Inquirer: An undocumented house cleaner loses her job in Philly, but finds her mission Altagracia Maria Herrera is an undocumented house cleaner who was excluded from most government aid, making the pandemic the […]
Being in The Philadelphia Inquirer, even in the business section, it was going to be an opinion piece, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have some good statistics: Job or kids? One in three working moms forced to choose as pandemic enters Year Two. Kids at home, chores, and full-time career? Philly’s burnt-out moms quit […]
Of course, that victim was apparently not a gang banger, so I suppose it was seen as unusual. A 16-year-old was killed outside a 7-Eleven after looking at a man who took it the wrong way, police say Police released surveillance video of the suspect, who had gone into the 7-Eleven store with a female […]
I ran across a photo if the masthead of The Philadelphia Inquirer from February 25, 1953, and noticed the ‘taglines’ that it used: “Public Ledger” and “An Independent Newspaper for All the People”. By Public ledger, the Inquirer was setting itself up as Philadelphia’s newspaper of record, which Wikipedia defines as “a major newspaper with […]