Cover Story Money Talks In mid-May, Jeremy Nowak joined School Reform Commission chairman Pedro Ramos and pro-charter-school activists at a long meeting to discuss a big problem: They were losing the media war to opponents of the plan, released three…

Cover Story Money Talks In mid-May, Jeremy Nowak joined School Reform Commission chairman Pedro Ramos and pro-charter-school activists at a long meeting to discuss a big problem: They were losing the media war to opponents of the plan, released three…

Cover Story Right Makes Might Meet Daryl Metcalfe, the gun-toting, gay-bashing, tea-partying state rep who’s taking over Harrisburg. email print font size comments 3 options   Posted: Thu, Apr. 5, 2012, 12:16 PM Right Makes Might Meet Daryl Metcalfe, the…

Neal Santos Self-hating Philadelphians love to complain about the city and its services. One of their favorite targets? The underrated, underfunded, enormous and, yes, aromatic Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, known with strained affection as SEPTA. Linger even a few minutes…

Mark Stehle Andre Boyer has accused two cops of fabricating a police report. When Philadelphia Police Officers Angel Ortiz and Andre Boyer stopped James Singleton’s Cadillac Deville at half past noon on Sept. 1, 2011, Singleton’s hands were nervously shaking.…

A still from a prison video showing Tyrone Glover striking John Steckley. Tyrone Glover still works as a corrections officer at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility nearly eight months after multiple social-service providers visiting the prison told me that they witnessed…

Charles Mostoller District Attorney Seth Williams Mark Stehle Defense lawyer Guy Sciolla Former Assistant DA A. J. Thomson Last Thursday, District At­torney Seth Williams an­nounced that Phil­adel­phia Police Officer Christopher Hulmes, a narcotics cop who admitted in open court to…

DA Seth Williams In 2011, Philadelphia Police Officer Christopher Hulmes sat in a witness stand and admitted that he had lied multiple times under oath in a drug-and-gun case. Cops are frequently accused of lying, but they are rarely proven…

Philly School District headquarters I could have reported in advance all but the ending of last Wednesday’s grueling, five-hour School Reform Commission meeting, convened to adjudicate 39 charter-school applications. Charter-school advocates pleaded for salvation from failing public schools. Opponents, including…