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Elmer Smith: Hey, the government spent $1.3 billion and actually put it to good use.
Sandra Shea: Hey, come to the riverfront planning meeting so developers can probably ignore you.
Fatimah Ali: “But plenty of taxpayers like me are excited about the changing tides. And we’re pinning our hopes on electing this visionary.” Yeah, all the taxpayers are excited!
Ronnie Polaneczky: Hey, I ran in that race about 10 years ago. Whee!
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dmac | 9:41 AM | 1 Comment
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Jul
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 Daily News senior writer Sandra Shea has been named the new editorial page editor of the Daily News. Shea replaces Frank Burgos, who is leaving to become managing editor of The Record in Bergen County.
Shea has been at the paper since 1990. (She’s the one who had the tagline “Senior writer Sandra Shea makes sense of the big issues facing the city - and its taxpayers!”) Before becoming senior writer, Shea worked as features editor and assistant managing editor. Like Burgos before her, she was part of the DN team that wrote the 2001 editorials about Fairmount Park that was a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist in editorial writing.
Recently, Shea has been covering the impending doom (or whatever) brought by the introduction of slot machines to Philadelphia. According to a memo from the DN, Shea also has a master’s in literature and fiction from Bennington College in Vermont. We should all be looking forward to the great new Daily News editorials on Tristram Shandy, Ulysses, Pride & Prejudice and Giovanni’s Room.
Full memo from DN editor Michael Days after the jump.
Photo by Albert Yee
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dmac | 2:36 PM | 4 Comments
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May
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• Not content to simply opine on every subject in the real world, ex-Phils and current Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is now moving to the virtual world. The makers of the video game Everquest have created a Schilling character which probably weighs about 400 pounds and whose best move is talking to the media. Still, it’s hard to say this is a bad thing, since (1) Each time he’s defeated in one weekend, $5 goes to ALS and (2) you get a chance to finally shut up Curt Schilling. [The 700 Level]
• Go for the recap of last night’s casino forum. Stay for the photo of DN scribe Sandra Shea and Mayor Street. [dragonballyee]
• Judges want their addresses and such out of the public record, citing safety concerns. I want a sandwich, citing hunger concerns. [Daily Rant]
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dmac | 3:30 PM | 0 Comments
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Apr
21
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Jill Porter: Now that the courts have ruled we can curse at work, I’ll just cut to the case: The Crime Commission is run by a bunch of fucking cunts who won’t give a woman her fucking reward money because she called the police instead of them.
Sandra Shea: Hey, they changed her tagline!
Elmer Smith: Are some lives worth more than others? (Editor’s Note: Yes. Yes they are.)
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dmac | 10:03 AM | 0 Comments
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Apr
3
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Stu Bykofsky: Fund the Pennsylvania Animal Care and Control Association, dogs! And bitches, too!
Urban Warrior Chris Brennan: Here is how good people have it in Chestnut Hill: They’re worried about a construction site being an eyesore. Downtown, we’re a little confused when we pass and intersection and there’s no construction going on.
Sandra Shea: Senior writer Sandra Shea makes sense of the big issues facing the city - and its taxpayers!
Christine Flowers: You get outta my country unless you learn English! Grrrrr!
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dmac | 8:56 AM | 0 Comments
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Mar
20
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Urban Warrior Chris Brennan: A group of gardeners who have been tending to city land for 40 years? Let’s kick ‘em out!
Stu Bykofsky: I don’t know how to do online searches, bitches!
John Baer: An imagined conversation about slots between John Street and John Perzel. Erhm.
Sandra Shea: The city could fix the way Fairmount Park is run, but naturally it won’t. Senior writer Sandra Shea makes sense of the big issues facing the city — and its taxpayers!
Christine Flowers: This column about abortion will surely change your mind on the issue. Espcially when women who use artificial insemination are called “selfish.”
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dmac | 9:50 AM | 0 Comments
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Mar
16
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Ronnie Polaneczky: Giving City Council members credit checks would surely clean up this city! Or, rather, we’d just know what the Council members’ scores are, and they’d still be corrupt.
Michael Smerconish: A new voluntary program could cut the long lines when going through the security checkpoint at airports. Of course, this special “non-threat flyer card” will surely never get screwed up, because our government is oh-so-competent.
Sandra Shea: Phoenix may soon have more people living there than in Philadelphia, but that’s okay! Sandra Shea makes sense of the big issues facing the city and its taxpayers!
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dmac | 9:22 AM | 0 Comments
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Feb
6
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Stu Bykofsky: That kid who was fired for his blog in Delaware sucks so much I get to write “bitching.” Ahh, the joys of being Stu Bykofsky.
Sandra Shea: John Street is a “master” of “pastoral politics.”
John Baer: If you’re poor in Pennsylvania, you can get cheaper drugs. Why don’t people know about this?
Christine Flowers (Editor’s Note: I didn’t read this column. I just looked at the headline and guessed. If I’m wrong, I apologize.): Waaaaaah! The Academy didn’t nominate Chronicles of Narnia for an Oscar! Anti-Christian bias! Waaaaaah!
Urban Warrior Chris Brennan: The government has a no-fly list and managed to screw it up. What a shocker!
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dmac | 10:26 AM | 2 Comments
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Dec
20
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Two sentences or less. Here we go:
Ronnie Polaneczky: CSX is a huge jerk and is blocking pedestrian access to Schuylkill River Park because they want to be able to park their trains anywhere. In grand Philadelphia tradition, neighbors have thrown fits and CSX is going to have to relent.
Mark Alan Hughes: Mayor Street is in his second term, so I’ll be “funny” and call him “Mayor Duck.” Get it?
Sandra Shea: Senior writer Sandra Shea makes sense of the big issues facing the city - and its taxpayers. (Note: This is her actual tagline for the column.)
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dmac | 9:39 AM | 0 Comments
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