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Snowstorm Clunker in Philadelphia, State Patrick's Day at Penn State, and Obama Health Care Reform

By Randy LoBasso at 12:07 am on Friday February 26, 2010

PHILLY2PHILLY Weekly Local and National News Wrap-Up The Local: You know the garbage all over your street (in addition to the dog feces your too-cool-for-school neighbor thought would just disintegrate into the snow? Yeah, well, it’s not going anywhere.

New Jersey's Race for Governor-Corzine, Christie, and Daggett are each awful

By Randy LoBasso at 12:11 am on Sunday November 1, 2009

In 1994, the NBA’s New Jersey Nets considered renaming themselves the Swamp Dragons. Ownership eventually declined and the name-change was unofficially handed off to politicians running for statewide office. Next week, our neighbors across the Delaware will be voting for governor. Their choices: A corrupt jogger, a corrupt fat dude, and someone else who’s neither – but not much else.

The Philadelphia Phillies embody the True Spirit of Red October

By Gregory Gethard at 11:08 pm on Thursday October 22, 2009

A few months ago, I was out somewhere and one of my more outspoken leftist anti-WTO activist friends started screaming about how sports served nothing more to distract us from the “real” issues that affect our world. Not wanting an argument, and being someone who spends a large chunk of his income on all things related to baseball, I bit my tongue. But it did get me to think about sports, politics and the world at large.

President Obama, Policeman, Sticking His Nose…

By Gregory Gethard at 1:15 am on Wednesday July 29, 2009

What would your reaction be if, last year, there was a story in which President Bush talked at length about a friend of his, and a campaign donor, who was arrested? And, in the case of this story, he ripped into the local police department involved in the incident? You’d probably be outraged, and correctly so. But Bush never did such a thing. President Obama did.