That didn’t take long. It was just this morning I wrote about the city tying its second-place record of 499 homicides, set just last year. 500th homicide: Woman, 55, fatally shot in South Philly It was the city’s 500th homicide so far in 2021, matching the worst year on record. by Robert Moran | Wednesday, […]
William Teach noted New York Times columnist Tom Friedman’s paean to fear: When you see how hard it’s been for governments to get their citizens to just put on a mask in stores, or to get vaccinated, to protect themselves, their neighbors and their grandparents from being harmed or killed by Covid-19, how in the […]
This site has been hard on The Philadelphia Inquirer and how that august newspaper pretty much ignores the homicides in its hometown unless the victim is an innocent, someone already of note, or a cute little white girl. In a city in which the vast majority of murder victims are black, you wouldn’t expect that […]
Governor Tom Wolf’s (D-PA) authoritarian dictates during 2020 pushed the Republicans who control the state legislature to set up two constitutional amendments to rein in a tin-pot dictator, something that certainly sounds familiar to Kentuckians! Well, though those constitutional amendments passed, Governor Wolf found a loophole, getting the state’s Secretary of Health to issue a […]