Burg Blog / Opinion

Snow Day

January 3, 2014 | by Paul Barker

“Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland,” observes Gabriel Conroy, in the mysterious and tender final… Read More

Hark! The Harrisburg Angel Sings

December 20, 2013 | by Paul Barker

Hark! the Harrisburg angel sings, Glory to all strange city things. Our capital’s had quite a year For those of… Read More

Mind the Gap

December 13, 2013 | by Paul Barker

Some 40,000 years ago, early humans, having migrated from Africa to the Fertile Crescent, and from there to the Central… Read More

Defining Terms

December 5, 2013 | by Paul Barker

Last January, Congressman José Serrano, Democrat of the 15th District of New York, introduced a joint resolution to repeal the… Read More

Man in the Middle

December 4, 2013 | by Lawrance Binda

Receiver William Lynch’s presence was felt at last night’s budget hearing, even though he wasn’t there.   “We might be… Read More

Out of Pocket (a bit of Burg humor)

November 27, 2013 | by Lawrance Binda

Would you pay 28 cents more per gallon for roads, bridges and mass transit options? 56.9%: No. The roads do… Read More

Direct Viewing

November 22, 2013 | by Paul Barker

  Late Friday afternoon, as the city darkened in a warm fog, half-a-dozen or so employees of the Midtown Cinema… Read More

Bad Reads

November 20, 2013 | by Paul Barker

Somewhere on an outer wall of the building you live or work in, if you live or work in Harrisburg,… Read More

Man in the Field

November 6, 2013 | by Paul Barker

Tuesday night, around 7 p.m., three supporters of Aaron Johnson—the write-in candidate for Harrisburg mayor who, despite having entered the… Read More

Same Old City

November 6, 2013 | by Lawrance Binda

  So, what was that all about? And, by “all that,” I mean the last couple of months of debates… Read More

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