Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Two Philadelphia Business Schools Do Well In Rankings
Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management was the only other Philadelphia-area MBA program to make the list. It tied with Rice University's business school for No. 67, up from No. 74 a year ago. Fox wasn't ranked two years ago.
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Monday, January 30, 2006
An Independent Ethics Board: Coming Soon?
Quick Overview:
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
Green Power!
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Saturday, January 28, 2006
PA's Agriculture Industry: There's a lot of it
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Something for the Commonwealth to Consider?
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New York Discounter Coming to Chestnut Street
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Ex-Mayor on Trial for Corruption
No, this isn’t a fictional piece, it’s a report about what’s happening to Atlanta’s former Mayor Bill Campbell (with a few details left out), now that he’s left office.
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Lynn Swann will Revert Back to an Ugly Ducking on the Campaign Trail
For instance, Pennsylvania's unemployment rate dipped last month and its non-farm job count rose for a 10th straight month, according to the state's Department of Labor & Industry. Seasonally adjusted non-farm jobs increased by 300 - the smallest month-to-month gain over 10 months - to push the state's job count to 5,730,300. Over the year, total non-farm jobs increased by 64,400, or 1.1 percent, just under the national growth rate of 1.5 percent. The state's unemployment rate dipped from 5.1 percent to 4.9 percent last month, matching the national rate. In December 2004, the state's unemployment rate was 5.7 percent. The number of people working or looking for work fell by 4,000 last month to 6,306,000, which is 20,000 below the December 2004 level.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Trump Coming to the Waterfront
AHT staffers will likely not be able to afford a unit.
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More Center City Condos
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Philadelphia Cruise Business Continues Growth
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A Right Winger for Gay Marriage
Pro-Bush, pro-equality Wisconsin resident and former Massachusetts lawmaker Bob Hall is a conservative Republican who wants everyone to know that the only people who threaten traditional marriage are straight couples.
By Bob Hall
An Advocate.com exclusive posted, January 17, 2006
I’m opposed to the state constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage now being considered by the Wisconsin legislature. Oh, I know I’m an unlikely champion of gay rights. I’m a Marine Corps Vietnam vet who has deep regrets about that war—mostly I regret that we didn’t kill twice as many of those murdering totalitarian bastards. I hope we do better in Iraq. I believe the “out now” crowd are racists who think the Iraqis are too inferior to deserve democracy. Or they don’t care, as long as America is defeated and George Bush embarrassed.
I worked hard to defeat John Kerry last November and will do so again if he runs. And I’m a death penalty advocate who thinks we should run it like a barbershop—two chairs, no waiting.
As a member of the Massachusetts state senate, I regularly voted against increasing the state budget—more than any other senator. And don’t get me started on guns. I’m not for mandatory concealed carry, but I do think fondly of how polite folks were in the days when gentlemen wore swords.
Living in Madison, Wis., I feel a certain kinship with the Israeli ambassador to Baghdad. While I think of myself as a centrist Republican with a libertarian bent, to the average Progressive Dane voter, I’m a fascist pig.
So how did I become a supporter of gay rights? In 1973 then–Massachusetts state representative Barney Frank had filed bills prohibiting employment and housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The bills came before a committee on which I served. There were a lot of jokes and nudging going on—this was the early ’70s. Appearing to testify was a bright and charming woman, Elaine Noble, who would later serve as a state representative herself. Elaine convinced me that supporting Barney’s bills was the right thing to do. I told the chair, Sen. Allen McKinnon, to record me in favor of them.
The bills received a favorable report—but no one in the committee’s Democratic majority was willing to carry (be floor manager) for them. So I volunteered.
The Republican floor leader had a minor stroke when he learned I was carrying gay rights bills. He had only seven Republicans out of 40 senators. I was 27, single, and holding a seat I’d won by nine votes out of 60,000 cast. The common wisdom was that I was a one-term wonder who caught the incumbent senator vulnerable but couldn’t be reelected.
I suspect that I may have been the first legislator in the country to speak for gay rights on the floor of a state legislature. McKinnon spoke for the bills after me. On the roll call, only six senators voted in favor—McKinnon, four other Democrats, and myself. And the bills were dead that year.
But I won the next election by 10,000 votes, carrying every city and town in my working-class Democratic district. More legislators decided that supporting antidiscrimination measures was a safe thing to do. Today, it’s the law in Massachusetts—which strangely doesn’t seem to have collapsed because of it or because of the gay marriage decision there last year.
Trust me, no true heterosexual wakes up and thinks, Hey, I’m really angry with my partner. I think I’ll try dating someone from my own gender from now on. So who has destroyed traditional marriage in America?
How about men—and increasingly women—abusing their spouses? How about the heterosexual trend toward infidelity, led by the example of our highest elected leaders? How about men fathering and then abandoning children to poverty and state support? How about a large number of straight people deciding serial marriage and divorce is a cool lifestyle?
The anti–same-sex-marriage amendment isn’t going to help my marriage by so much as a red whisker. If you think it will protect your marriage or any marriage, that marriage is already shot.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006
SDP Building Receives Honors
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
I'm Worried About the Groundhog
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November Good Month for Center City Hotels
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Pennsylvania's Alt. Fuel Industry Expands
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Brandywine Realty Trust
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Boyd Theater Update
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Friday, January 06, 2006
Montana Comes to Pennsylvania
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
The Pennsylvania Farm Show
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Recycling saves the Commonwealth Serious Money
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