Fireworks Flap
When you outsource a critical function, you run the risk of losing control over it. No, I’m not writing today… Read More
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Coming to BSM: Harvest Co-op
And the progress continues . . . Businessman Joshua Kesler is doubling down on the food scene in Midtown Harrisburg.… Read More
Fire Inflation 2: A Convenient Fiction
Oh, the comments. Yesterday’s blog post, “Fire Inflation,” generated enough email and tweets that I thought I’d revisit the topic… Read More
Fire Inflation
They love us. They hate us. In office just six months, state Sen. Rob Teplitz, who lives just over the… Read More
Safe Spaces
The city will begin cracking down on crime and blight in Safe Zone 6, Mayor Thompson announced this morning… Read More
Paved Paradise III: The Reverend Replies
Friday, July 5, at 3 p.m., the Zoning Hearing Board will meet to determine the fate of the Bethel AME… Read More
Same-Sex Marriage & the Urge to Localize
Two decades ago, when I was a young pup in the journalism biz, an editor gave me an assignment that… Read More
Dead Dads & the Liquor Biz
I hereby declare the battle over privatization of Pennsylvania’s liquor business to be over. I reached this conclusion in, of… Read More
“Why Not Me?” Capital City Syndrome, Part 2
Awhile back, I wrote in my monthly Burg column about a potentially debilitating condition that I had identified called “Capital… Read More
Not Kipona
Harrisburg’s media circle was in full flutter this morning after Mayor Linda Thompson’s office sent out an e-mail scheduling a… Read More