Posts from Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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ABOUT DICK POLMAN
Cited by the Columbia Journalism Review website as one of the nation's top political scribes, and by ABC News' online political tip sheet as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation, " Dick Polman is a national blogger and columnist who has covered or chronicled every presidential campaign since 1988. A Philadelphia resident, Dick roamed the country for most of his 22 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been blogging daily since 2006. He's currently on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as "Writer in Residence." He has been a frequent guest on C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and various NPR shows - most notably Philadelphia's "Radio Times" on WHYY-FM.
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Sequestration scraps McGuire-Dix July 4 celebrationMay 21 - NBC10
Military fireworks won't be going off as planned this Independence Day due to the federal sequester. Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Lakehurst, N.J., has canceled its annual July Fourth celebration due to furloughs caused by congressionally More »
Do high hospital 'sticker prices' mean anything?
May 21 - Taunya English, @taunyaenglish
Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Temple University Hospital, Hahnemann University Hospital and Delaware County Memorial Hospital are on a list of medical centers with the highest billing rates in the nation. More »
The final month: GHS volunteer says youths 'in utter state of confusion' as closing day looms
May 20 - Brian Hickey @GTownWOLane
As the final day of Germantown High School's 99-year history approaches — the Class of '13 will don caps and gowns on June 19 — NewsWorks will present a series of stories including interviews with More »
DEFAC finds extra money for Delaware's FY 2014 budget
May 20 - Shana O'Malley @shanaomalley
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Howard Shapiro
Reviews: "The Misanthrope" and "Othello" -- thoroughly modern, thoroughly not :Who says you have to be old-fashioned to be classic? More »
Tony Auth
Burn, baby, burn!:The Republicans have been tormenting Obama for his entire presidency. More »
Dave Davies
The IRS scandal - Chicago politics?:I covered a handful of Obama campaign events in 2008 More »
Solomon Jones
Students march for schools, but where are the adults?:The estimated 1,000 high-school students who marched Broad Street to More »
Dick Polman
Republican overreach and the lessons of '98:Republicans currently in thrall to the scandal trifecta would be More »
Chris Satullo
IRS' Tea Party scrutiny was a huge blunder, but a deeper issue lurks beneath:Let's try to do something that Washington has a hard More »
Jan C. Ting
Why the IRS scandal is both not as bad, and also much worse, than it seems.:If an advertising agency gets money from clients to produce More »
Faye Flam
Historian: Voyager spacecraft marked new age of discovery:Some are baffled and others saddened by the fact that More »
