14 Responses to “TEACHER’S PET: Today I Saw The Future” Alexandra Says: October 23rd, 2007 at 3:02 pm e thanks for your words of wisdom today. they brought a nice change of pace, and certainly woke a few of us up from our in-class dozings. now i don’t feel so left out for not majoring in journalism. [Glad to hear it, Alexandra. –The Ed.] deeney Says: October 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm e Since when do college kids go to class on 81 degree late-October days? Doesn’t anyone do drugs any more? Abby Says: October 23rd, 2007 at 4:26 pm […]
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Back On The Block: Speaking Up For Hurley Street
Jeff Deeney’s recent Philadelphia Weekly cover story on Hurley Street has provided a fulcrum upon which several important and constructive conversations about the city’s future — and more urgently, its present — are tilting back and forth. Was it a realistic portrayal of the desperate straits in which poor families are forced to live, or a hatchet job on a section of the city which can still lay claim to many safe and stable residential blocks? Is it more important for the city’s next mayor to understand the problems or to solve them? Is it too little to simply expect […]
OXYMORONIC: All Good Children Go To Heaven
[Photo by JONATHAN VALANIA] BY JEFF DEENEY The best news Ed Bisch ever read was splashed across the front pages of newspapers everywhere last week: “In Guilty Plea, OxyContin Maker to Pay $600 Million.” You see, Purdue Pharma, OxyContin’s manufacturer, is Ed Bisch’s white whale. Some say he’s obsessed. He can explain why. Six years ago Ed discovered his son, Eddie Jr., dead in his Fishtown bed. After finding Eddie’s body, Ed set out to confront his son’s friends and find out what had happened. He found them congregated on the same Cumberland Street stoop where they always gathered, even […]