Burg Blog / Opinion

Balancing Act

May 9, 2014 | by Paul Barker

With receivership more than two months gone, and higher parking prices here to stay, it’s time we addressed an important… Read More

Impermanence in Midtown

May 2, 2014 | by Paul Barker

On Friday, a few minutes before 2 p.m., and some 40 hours, give or take, after a pair of moldering… Read More

Moving Targets

April 30, 2014 | by Paul Barker

Is Gene Veno, the state-appointed recovery officer for the Harrisburg school district, serious about improving Harrisburg’s schools? Mayor Eric Papenfuse… Read More

Giving Trees

April 23, 2014 | by Paul Barker

Tuesday morning, around 9 a.m., a bright-orange track hoe rolled down N. 3rd Street, trailing behind it a brief pileup… Read More

The First Hundred

April 16, 2014 | by Lawrance Binda

  What’s in a round number? Today, Mayor Eric Papenfuse marked his 100th day in office, and, for the occasion,… Read More

Backfire

April 7, 2014 | by Lawrance Binda

“I’m not certain how the city will be served with only three fire stations,” said Harrisburg Councilwoman Susan Brown-Wilson. It… Read More

Fire and Ice

April 5, 2014 | by Paul Barker

  In the wake of this week’s news from Harrisburg’s city hall, about the closing of the Paxton fire station… Read More

A Sweet Dream of Peace

March 14, 2014 | by Paul Barker

“I’m not going to speak for very long,” Donna Orbach said, “but I did want to take this opportunity to… Read More

Nose: Complex

March 10, 2014 | by Lawrance Binda

  “You might want to take a good whiff of the trays before you start to drink,” said our waiter,… Read More

Heart and Soul

March 7, 2014 | by Paul Barker

On Friday, at 20 or so minutes to noon, Rick Kearns, Harrisburg’s new poet laureate, sat in the city hall… Read More

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