January 3, 2013
By Tony Auth
Ultraconservatives in the House are dragging their feet on Hurricane Sandy disaster relief.
Perhaps they think citizens of New York and New Jersey belong to the 47% who are moochers who won't take responsibility for their lives.
After 40 years as editorial cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he garnered more than his share of both awards and hate mail, Tony Auth decided that the time had come to broaden the range of his commentary. There is, after all, so much more to life than politics.
What he needed was a new venue. What he found was WHYY, and NewsWorks, where he is now its first Digital Artist in Residence.
Stay tuned.
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