Columns

Are you ready for some (gambling ads during) football?

According to the Wall Street Journal, the fledgling online gambling industry is poised to explode in popularity. This season, the NFL for the first time is permitting sports-gambling companies to advertise during games. I don’t envy the precarious position the league has placed itself in.

Louisiana deputies and the Oklahoma outlaw

When officer Plais Horn saw a man climb off a freight train in Opelousas in March 1917, he thought his sharp eye and good memory had helped catch a notorious bank robber.

Columbus statue decision is a victory for all

Last summer, I spent a few days standing in front of the Columbus statute at Marconi Plaza in South Philly. I wasn’t alone. A lot of good folk were there around me, laughing and singing and eating Wawa hoagies.

A COVID booster? Not so fast.

Yeah, I’ll get the booster. I might even ask for a double, just in case. The CDC, which is now running the country, told me I need it and very few, including the media, have the temerity to take on the CDC.

More than ever, we need to live up to their legacy

Reflections on 20 years since 9/11 Over the past few days, I have had an opportunity to chat with several fellow Veterans, Service Members, Military family members, and Gold Star families.

Favoring OPEC over USA to lower gas prices is an insult

As the supply of oil is now being outpaced by the growth of demand, gasoline prices are climbing across the country. Yet, the Biden Administration has asked OPEC – not domestic producers and USA energy workers – for help to supply the U.S. with more oil.

Big memories of Little League

The thwack of a baseball colliding with a bat and the thump of a folded newspaper landing on a porch are sounds I cherish. They’re rewinding for me this month while watching the Little League World Series. As a kid, I played for four years on a team in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Have you thanked a school bus driver lately?

According to CNN, pandemic fears and enhanced unemployment benefits have left the nation facing a serious shortage of qualified school bus drivers. The problem is acute, despite districts implementing recruitment campaigns, offering sign-up bonuses, and even fudging on the standards. (“Question one.

We have a long tradition of gossip

I have a mind’s-eye vision of Jean Gaudet as a crusty old Frenchman, sun-burnt, with dark, work-hardened hands, capable of doing what had to be done to wrest a simple life from the soil. He was probably an independent old cuss.

What’s happening in Afghanistan is a tragedy

I’ve been practicing immigration law for over 25 years, and I speak four languages fluently. I’ve traveled widely outside of the United States, and lived abroad for large stretches in the 1980s and ‘90s. All of this is to say that I am devastated with what’s happening in Afghanistan.