The Great Divorce
Last November, David Unkovic—the city’s former receiver, who resigned in March of 2012 with a single page of urgent, tilting… Read More
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Beyond Their Control
In the course of a long political season, outside events sometimes monkey with candidates’ best efforts to keep their campaigns… Read More
Extra Credit
Sometimes press conferences answer questions, and sometimes they raise new ones. Two weeks ago, after the stabbing of three police… Read More
Harrisburg Stronger? Lynch’s plan might just succeed.
So, it’s done. More than 19 months after former receiver David Unkovic filed his financial recovery plan for Harrisburg, his… Read More
Inconvenient Untruths: The Tax Hike Edition
In life, there are certain convenient lies we tell ourselves. Frozen yogurt is good for me. I can afford to… Read More
Rest Up, Harrisburg
In a city, there’s a certain tempo to life. Some of that is daily, such as the whoosh in and… Read More
Party Time, Not Excellent.
When I was in graduate school, a journalism professor liked starting his class chatting about current events. One morning, a… Read More
Independents, Dazed
On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week, Judge Bernard Coates, of the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, heard… Read More
Body Politics
Summarizing the complexity of a court hearing—or, as the case was this week, three hearings pertaining to the weedy… Read More
No Comment
On the afternoon of October 4, 2012, Eric Papenfuse sat before the Pennsylvania Senate Local Government Committee and testified about… Read More