Author: Brendan Skwire

Cold Rain and Snow

I live in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and like the rest of the northeast/upper mid-Atlantic/midwest, we’re getting blasted by arctic air for the next few days. I no longer own a car, so I use my bike to get to work. I made...

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Worst Person in the World Even Worse

Earlier this year, Pennsylvania’s unaccountable, unelected School Reform Commission voted, basically in secret, to unilaterally tear up the contract with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. This set off a massive...

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Happy Veterans Day

The story, as I understand it, is that my Uncle Willy hightailed it out of Germany as Hitler rose to power, found his way onto a ship, and tried to sneak past immigration into the United States. He was turned away, so he got...

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