One of Barack Obama’s top advisers hinted last week that a President Obama might ask Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to remain on the job. (Visar Kryeziu/AP)
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Trudy Rubin says: In these deeply disturbing times, when the global economy seems out of control, there is a small piece of good news.
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City Ethics
- The members of Mayor Nutter's new reform task force could find themselves deliberating over Caribbean island vacation photos of...
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Race and Justice
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Editorial: Late? Or Never?
- Long-ignored murders from the civil-rights era may finally get the attention they deserve from federal investigators. It took...
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Daniel Rubin: Police work not always about the bad guys
- It's good the Philadelphia police have a supply of teddy bears for times like these. The boy was walking out of his house, escorted by two officers, as Capt. Daniel Castro pulled up to the shooting in Fairhill.
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Neighbors in fear of Rhodesian ridgeback
- The moral of this story might be that if you have a pack of Rhodesian ridgeback dogs, named Rocky, Mack, Bear and Duke, you're asking for trouble if they terrorize a former Action News reporter.
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City hotel tax should be raised
- Earlier this month, Gov. Ed Rendell - joined by Mayor Michael Nutter, State House Appropriations chairman Dwight Evans, State Rep. Jewell Williams and Councilwoman Marian Tasco – signed into law House Bill 2167 at a well-attended public ceremony at the Doubletree Hotel.
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Even if you can't schlep all the way to Bubbe's in Florida, maybe you can make it to your great-aunt's in Center City. That's the premise of the The Great Schlep" - a political action committee's call for young Jewish voters to persuade their elders to vote for Barack Obama.
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Paul Hagen: The Phillies must beat the club Chase Utley grew up rooting for in the NLCS beginning tomorrow night. Oh, yeah. It would help if he started swinging the bat a little better, too.
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