These indexes have been compiled primarily for my own reference, but I provide them here for others who may find them useful:

Philadelphia Inquirer, 1978-2003
Philadelphia Weekly, 2004
Philadelphia Forum, 1996-98
Welcomat (Philadelphia), 1981-94
Philadelphia Daily News, 1978-2004

Not yet indexed are my columns and articles from other newspapers, most notably:

Wall Street Journal,1968-70)
Portand (Ind.) Commercial-Review, 1964-68

All articles listed here are the property of Dan Rottenberg and cannot be used commercially without my permission. For a copy of any article, send $10 to:

Dan Rottenberg
1530 Chestnut St.
Room 330
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For more information, call (215) 569-4822 or contact me at d.rottenberg@verizon.net

Philadelphia Inquirer, 1978-2003

1978

6/8/78 Postal Service perpetuates the past
8/27/78 A sober view of a real ‘Animal House’ (Penn fraternities; Phi Sigma Delta)
9/6/78 Upper Darby’s 69th St. shopping district (Chicago Loop)
9/26/78 Arnold Galiffa obit (Army football)
10/9/78 Gerald Ford’s pardon of Nixon (Robert Dole)
10/22/78 City Charter change proposal (Rizzo third-term attempt)
11/14/78 Rizzo is not the retiring type
11/27/78 Small is better (hotels scaling down)
12/5/78 Pinball parlors don’t cause crime

1979

1/29/79 Penn put athletics in perspective (Columbia admissions)
2/5/79 Two views of Center City (my office at 19th & Spruce)
2/13/79 Franklin Thomas, Paul Rubincam, Bart Leach, Penn-Columbia basketball
3/1/79 What if you hope both lose?
3/23/79 The Ivy League is different (Penn basketball)
6/26/79 When the House of Drexel ruled (Drexel Building)
7/4/79 Three wealthy people (Ethel Pew, Lessing Rosenwald, Mildred Pitcairn)
7/10/79 Summer problems (gas lines, Rizzo, Tayoun, Jacob Riz)
7/17/79 Historic buildings (James Biddle, Andalusia, Rouse Co., Reading Terminal)
7/24/79 Real Polish jokes
7/31/79 Philadelphia restaurant revival (Gil Guben)
8/7/79 Demise of the Drummer (Jon Stern, Harry Hay Katz)
8/14/79 Condomania (Society Hill Towers, etc.)
8/21/79 Resignations: John Bunting, Martin Meyerson, Herbert Fogel
8/28/79 Philadelphia police brutality (Rizzo, O’Neill)
9/4/79 Bicycles in Center City
9/11/79 End of summer (Marin County, Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler)
9/18/79 Bank automated teller machines (MAC)
9/25/79 Republican presidential candidates (open letter to Bill Brock)
10/2/79 What is Rizzo’s philosophy?
10/9/79 Integration at Masterman and Greenfield schools
10/16/79 Away from it all in Radauti, Rumania (Ceausescu)
10/23/79 How much power has Pope John Paul II?
10/30/79 Center City porno shops and the free market
11/6/79 Dull mayoral campaign? (Rizzo, Bill Green, David Marston, Lucien Blackwell)
11/13/79 In praise of older women (Fonda, Andress, Collins, Angie Dickinson, Cyd Charisse)
11/20/79 Demise of Albert Greenfield empire (Bankers Securities, Gus Amsterdam)
11/27/79 Penn ends a bad tradition (football, Harry Gamble)
12/4/79 Defense of Philadelphia Magazine
12/11/79 Philadelphia’s tortoise vs. Chicago’s hare
12/18/79 KYW-TV news: A winner into a loser (Alan Bell, Vince Leonard, Mort Crim, Jessica Savitch)
12/25/79 Jewish Christmas (Fieldston, Portland, Ind.)

1980

1/1/80 Death of Silkie (our cat); (Edward Marshall Boehm)
1/8/80 Legacy of Rizzo years (Harding, Jimmy Walker)
1/15/80 “The Brethren” (Phila. Common Pleas Court judges)
1/22/80 New year signs: Bijou Café, Trafalgar, Flaming Angus, Barry Leonard
1/29/80 Olympics, Playboy bunnies, Miss America, Bert Parks, women sportswriters
2/5/80 Pierre Peladeau, Philadelphia Journal
2/12/80 Abscam, Isadore Bellis, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago, use of legal fees
2/19/80 Mayor Bill Green had to lighten the load (Rizzo, police)
2/26/80 United Way-Catholic-Quaker connection (Digby Baltzell, Cardinal Krol)
3/4/80 Purging effect of warfare (parody; Jimmy Carter)
3/11/80 Police brutality suit (Rizzo, Green, John Penrose)
3/18/80 Family Odyssey (Miklos Spitzer, Graber, Rottenberg family)
3/25/80 Philadelphia slogan
4/8/80 Inflation indexing is a con game
4/15/80 Indianapolis vs. Philadelphia (Uni-Gov)
4/22/80 Advertising on bus shelters (John Wanamaker)
4/29/80 Ming, God of small miracles (parody)
5/6/80 A job for Rizzo (Pagan Motorcycle Club, Charles Bronson, Chuck Barris)
5/13/80 Campaign issues (Carter, Reagan, Arlen Specter, Pete Flaherty)
5/20/80 City oil tax, SEPTA board, Philadelphia wage tax, suburbs
5/27/80 John Bunting resigns (First Pennsylvania Bank, Digby Baltzell, Rizzo, Philadelphia leaders, Chicago)
6/3/80 New buildings as anchors (SmithKline Building, Franklin Plaza Hotel, Ten Penn Center, Rittenhouse Hotel)
6/10/80 Philadelphia Bible College demolition
6/17/80 Big government, steel workers, Wall Street Journal
6/24/80 Philadelphia lawmakers (Fineman, Cianfrani, Fumo, Eilberg, Myers, George Schwartz, Harry Janotti)
7/1/80 Pews and Hunts: styles vary
7/8/80 SEPTA’s setup is wrong (Grapes of Wrath)
7/15/80 Renters vs. condominiums (parody)
7/22/80 Thornburgh’s Iron Curtain (Radauti, Rumania; Laurence Salzmann photos. Commissary)
7/29/80 Philadelphia lawyers and Isadore Bellis (Andrew Hamilton, Zenger case, Sheldon Albert)
8/5/80 South jersey independence movement
8/12/80 Courtesy and rude clerks (Free Library, Postal Serrvice)
8/19/80 Ronald Reagan’s age should be an issue
8/26/80 Alan Halpern quits Philadelphia magazine (Herbert Lipson)
9/2/80 Misguided nostalgia (Fiddler on the Roof, Annie)
9/9/80 Nixon and madman theory of politics (, Daniel Ellsberg, Rizzo, Ozzie Myers, Buddy Cianfrani, Thacher Longstreth, Elkins Wertherill, Bill Green)
9/16/80 Abbie Hoffman surrenders (Chicago Conspiracy Seven trial)
9/23/80 Philadelphia public schools; vouchers 9/30/80 Penn and hiring of Sheldon Hackney (Vartan Gregorian)
10/7/80 Singles and salad bars (Saladalley, Commissary, Eden)
10/14/80 Fall of George X. Schwartz (Rizzo, Green, Bunting)
10/21/80 London (Baltzell, Greater London Council)
10/28/80 Phillies’ World Series victory
11/4/80 Riepl’s touchdown run (Penn-Notre Dame game, Hornung)
11/11/80 Philadelphia property tax audit (Morris Katz)
11/18/80 Confession for Nixon (Agnew, Cianfrani, Gerald Ford)
11/25/80 Philadelphia public schools magnet programs (Parkway program)
12/2/80 Philadelphia’s amiable tradition (Baltzell, Angelo Bruno)
12/9/80 Is the Academy of music in peril? (Margaret Everitt, Opera Company, Riccardo Muti)
12/16/80 Landlord’s letter to apartment tenants (parody)
12/23/80 Memoir of Southwood Drugs, Woodbury, N.J. (Grolnicks)
12/30/80 News of the future (parody; Free Library, wolfpacks, Rizzo)

1981

1/13/81 The right discovers humor (Emmett Tyrell, William F. Buckley, Daniel Seligman)
1/20/81 Princeton is the problem (Longstreth, Woodrow Wilson, Aaron Burr)
1/27/81 Street noise, portable radios, cross-conversations
2/3/81 Eagles lose Super Bowl (Chuck Bednarik)
2/10/81 Dangerous nostalgia (Biograph Theatre, Chicago, baseball cards, Carl Goldberg)
2/17/81 Retirees as volunteers (Grandpa marc, RSVP program)
2/24/81 Politics in Philadelphia schools (parody)
3/3/81 City taxes and small business (free-lancing)
3/10/81 Killing as self-expression (Jean Harris murder of Herman Tarnower, etc.)
3/17/81 Holding oil companies hostage (Jim Tayoun, condo conversion moratorium, etc.)
3/24/81 New team owners’ self-delusion (Carpenter family, Phillies sale, Chuck Barris, “Gong Show”)
3/31/81 Eulogy for Mom (Lenore Rottenberg)
6/17/81 Guardian Angels in subways
6/30/81 Villanova football can live
7/21/81 Rizzo vs. Rocky (Sylvester Stallone)
8/13/81 Tutoring heirs (Craig Sweeten, Thomas S. Gates, Penn, Owen Biddle, George Wharton Pepper, George W. Biddle, Katharine Drexel)
9/4/81 Suburbanites in city theaters (parody)
9/15/81 School vouchers for Philadelphia
9/29/81 Can Philadelphia do without schools?
10/20/81 T. Truxtun Hare (football, Penn, Veterans Stadium, Ivan Caine)
11/3/81 When bureaucracy bends (my marriage license, etc.)
11/13/81 Biddle family 300th anniversary in America
11/30/81 Blue-Collar Jobs Count (Portland, Ind., Chicago, Rizzo, Green)
12/28/81 Labor strikes: Poland vs. America (SEPTA)

1982

1/13/82 “The Family” statue (Sun Co., Timothy Duffield, Gratz High violence)
2/1/82 Do Catholic schools offer more? (Ethical Culture Schools)
2/16/82 Reduced arts funding (PVLA, BVA, Community Accountants)
3/1/82 Funding for Free Library of Philadelphia (Keith Doms)
3/22/82 Choice between civil defense and food (DVRPC, starvation in South Philadelphia)
4/5/82 You can’t cheat an honest city (Philadelphia wage tax, Cianfrani, Fineman, Schwartz)
4/16/82 Police hiring, Philadelphia City Charter
5/3/82 Crises come and go (inflation, oil, the dollar)
5/12/82 Dear Ann Landers (recycled columns)
6/9/882 Mandatory sentence by computer (Philadelphia National Bank)
6/19/82 Center City sidewalk vendors
7/5/82 Non-ethnic contentions (men vs. women, Keynesians vs. supply-siders, Eakins fans vs. Rocky fans, urban vs. suburban, shopkeepers vs. sidewalk vendors, teachers vs. parents and taxpayers, smokers vs. non-smokers, pro-choice vs. pro-life, etc.)
7/17/82 Myles Tanenbaum (USFL, Kravco, Philadelphia Stars, Jerry Reinsdorf)
7/31/82 Civil service leaves much to be desired (Mayor Green)
8/18/04 Rural ennui (Carbondale churches, Portland, Ind.)
9/2/82 Girls High and Central (sex discrimination suit) 9/9/82 September allergies
9/18/82 Choosing school superintendent (parody)
10/14/82 Ballparks for Eagles and Phillies (football strike, Leonard Tose, Myles Tanenbaum)
10/30/82 Phillies, Eagles, Vet Stadium (Leonard Tose, James Tayoun, condo conversions)
11/27/82 Penn-Harvard football metaphysics (NFL strike)
12/4/82 Frank Binswanger, the modern Golem
12/25/82 How important mayoral elections? (Wilson Goode, Rizzo)
12/26/82 Reviews of The Wall Street Journal and Inside the Wall Street Journal

1983

1/8/83 Ethnic pressure politics (DeLores Tucker, Milton Shapp, Miguel Rivera case, Edward Rendell)
1/29/83 Where have all the commuters gone? (SEPTA, Center City)
2/5/83 Eulogy for Muller DeVan, dentist
2/19/83 Center City Commuter Tunnel
3/1/83 City mayoral campaign and “jobs” issue (Wilson Goode, Rizzo)
3/19/83 New Philadelphia leadership style (Bill Green, Jim Karayn, Baltzell, Stockton Strawbridge)
3/26/83 More newsletters needed (Helen Oakes, Philadelphia School Board)
4/16/83 Marian Anderson affair and DAR
5/4/83 Racial stereotypes (Wilson Goode, Frank Rizzo 5/18/83 Justice Rolf Larsen case: When is a judge not a judge?
5/27/83 Primaries: Money wasn’t the winner (John Connally, Lewis Lehrman, Frank Rizzo, Wilson Goode, Sanford Weiner, Bill Batoff, Howard Gittis)
6/25/83 Merit pay for teachers (and others)
7/5/83 Villains can promote a cause (James Watt, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Chicago, Bernard Epton)
7/28/83 TV Channel 48 (Field Enterprises, Ted Field)
8/3/83 To integrate schools, improve them (Philadelphia)
8/27/83 Shrinking lawyer population in Philadelphia
9/3/83 Politicians: Promises vs. character (Johnson, Goldwater, Nixon, McGovern, Carter, etc.)
9/24/83 Parking ticket (Philadelphia)
10/1/83 Smoking in hospitals (Graduate, Pennsylvania, Jefferson, Hahnemann, HUP)
10/29/83 Human relations (School District busing, Central High, Constance Clayton)
11/1/83 Philadelphia use and occupancy tax
11/26/83 Drama of war (Gandhi, writing)
12/3/83 Neighbors and burglars (Center City, Town Watch)
12/24/83 Bill Green is not a people politician

1984

1/1/84 Philadelphia alone can’t draw high-tech (but region can) (Marc Paller, Tom Leonard)
1/27/84 Just playing along (Wilson Goode, Super Bowl, Playboy Club)
2/4/84 When contract isn’t a contract (Chicago Sun-Times, Rupert Murdoch, Mike Royko, Steve Levy, media, non-compete)

2/16/84 N.J. private beaches (Bay Head, Spring Lake, Deal, etc.)
2/28/84 Dogs in Philadelphia
3/6/84 Earnings cap is a good idea (Frank Rizzo, George Fencl, Joseph Vignola)
3/24/84 Philadelphia’s new leadership (transfer of power)
4/7/84 Richard Kanegis case: “Quaker witness” to injustice (MOVE, Alfred J. DiBona)
4/13/84 Center City skyscrapers( Willard Rouse, Liberty Place)
5/5/84 Topping William Penn (skyscrapers, Willard Rouse, Edmund Bacon)
5/29/84 When government dictates to press (SEC, Wall Street Journal, R. Foster Winans)
6/15/84 Rouse vs. Rubin (skyscraper competition, Edmund Bacon)
6/22/84 Free Library lacks freedom (City Charter, John Street).
7/28/84 Lessons of Talloires (France, MacJannet)
8/11/84 Delusions of Atlantic City
9/1/84 Penn and big-time football (Harold Stassen, George Munger)
9/11/84 Penn’s new president (Vartan Gregorian, Sheldon Hackney)
9/24/84 Public school alumni: Untapped assets (Joseph Pollock)
10/13/84 Is a long-term mayor better (Baltimore, Donald Schaefer, Richard J. Daley)
10/16/84 Take the lid off Election Day polls
11/10/84 Voluntary courts (Judicate)
12/4/84 Pennsylvania libel suits (Inquirer, Welcomat)
12/10/84 A beating on the subway (Julie)
12/15/84 Tax reform begins with the next guy (Reagan)
12/30/84 Just say no to pro sports stadiums (Cosell)

1985

1/12/85 Subway vigilantes (Bernard Goetz)
1/29/85 Takeover bids (Strawbridge & Clothier, CBS, Saul Steinberg)
2/19/85 Philanthropic entrepreneurs (Edwin Whitehead, William Benton, Herman Rottenberg)
3/10/85 Old isn’t the same s senile (Vladimir Zworykin, TV)
3/19/85 Northeast Philadelphia secession movement
4/2/85 City Council districts (Home Rule Charter)
4/15/85 Renamed sites (Louis Kahn Park, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Kelly Drive, Rittenhouse, Hahnemann, Gratz
4/30/85 Edward McGinley Jr. eulogy (Catholic executive, Emerson, Penn football)
5/13/85 Did hostage tax help chase Arco? (James Tayoun)
5/21/85 Bodine High School for International Affairs (magnet schools, Girls High)
6/21/85 How “haves” can help city (SEPTA station leases, Free Library, adopt-a-school)
6/27/85 Northeast capturing “gold-collar” workers
7/11/85 Judicial Board scratches the surface (Judge Bernard Snyder case)
8/3/85 Academy of Music can use help (Orchestra Hall, Muti, Opera Company, Pennsylvania Ballet)
8/16/85 What do parents owe kids? (Penn, Willis Stetson)
8/23/85 Casinos generate only gambling (Atlantic City, Mayor James Usry, Cora Boggs)
10/24/85 When police ask for help (Town Watch, Judith Eden, Captain William Brennan)
10/30/85 Wilson Goode’s tarnished image as administrator (MOVE)
11/14/85 Commission hearings (parody, MOVE) 12/3/85 A responsive police officer (Barbara’s auto accident)
12/24/85 Union League is diminishing itself (admission of women, Baltzell, Joan Specter)
12/30/85 Philadelphia hotels’ Darwinian struggle

1986

1/12/86 Matching talent vs. loyalty (Frank Rizzo, Jerry Berndt, George Munger, Ron Castille, Napoleon)
2/4/86 New Jersey lieutenant governor post (Gov. Thomas Kean, Milton Shapp, Richard Thornburgh)
2/21/86 If one Common Pleas judge said ‘no’ (truth vs. power, Shcharansky, Corazon Aquino, Lech Walesa, Jan Kemp)
3/13/86 The money is in security (bankers, insurers, real estate)
4/1/86 Kurt Waldheim’s past (Rohm & Haas, Yale U. and Jews, Penn football)
4/12/86 Free mass transit (SEPTA)
4/30/86 Charles Woodward, Chestnut Hill’s feudal lord
5/9/86 Takeover bid for Strawbridge & Clothier (Ronald Baron)
5/29/86 Town watch (police, William Brennan, hustlers)
6/6/86 Vartan Gregorian’s style (Penn, Sheldon Hackney, New York Public Library, Brooke Astor)
6/13/86 Politicians aren’t powerless (Bernard Goodheart, Frank Rizzo, Bill Green)
7/10/86 Civil service (Philadelphia, Committee of Seventy)
7/22/86 Department stores (Wanamaker, Strawbridge & Clothier)
8/16/86 School vouchers and black education
8/25/86 Parking at Philadelphia International Airport (my incident)
9/26/86 University of Pennsylvania birthday
10/3/86 Uneven prosecutions (Neil Ferber, Wilfred Santiago, John Goodson)
10/22/86 Penn football upset vs. Navy (Baltzell, Hartford City)
11/1/86 Buddy Ryan, sore winner (Philadelphia Eagles, Cornell, John Bajusz)
11/14/86 ‘I don’t need the money’ defense (Leland Beloff, Lester Crown, Hunt brothers, Frederic Ingram, Richard Whitney)
11/25/86 Liberals’ dilemma over Wilson Goode (Bill Green)
12/15/86 Philadelphia Orchestra needs new concert hall
12/29/86 Roofers Union’s bizarre style of bargaining (Stephen Traitz Jr.)

1987

1/15/87 The judges who didn’t take money (Common Pleas Court, Esther Sylvester, Stephen Traitz, Lynne Abraham, Bill Green
1/31/87 Rizzo’s memory and 1983 mayoral primary (Wilson Goode, Frank Lomento)
2/14/87 Rendell pledge to black ministers (Wilson Goode, Charles Bowser, Steve Lopez)
3/3/87 Center City: Philadelphia’s Golden Goose (Tayoun, office crisis)
3/17/87 Freddy Mann (Philadelphia orchestra, Mann Center, Stuart Louchheim, Albert Greenfield)
4/4/87 New directions for black business (Koreans)
4/15/87 Corporate takeovers can be positive too (Wall Street)
4/28/87 Bad rap on Penn football (David Goldberg)
5/29/87 Big crusades that fizzled (porno houses, Arlen Specter, condomania, movie colorization)
6/5/87 What citizens can do (Dad and Mark Goell, Goode, Rizzo, Edward Schwartz)
7/4/87 Critical view of Constance Clayton (Wilson Goode, Marvin Schuman, Daniel McGinley)
7/11/87 Leland Beloff’s sleaze defense
7/25/87 Constitution’s real business (protests)
8/20/87 Judges should be judged (Edward Bradley, Harry Takiff, Bernard Goodheart, Roofers Union) 8/29/87 Cigna’s threatened move from Center City to suburbs (William H. Whyte)
9/12/87 Bring back Delaware River ferry boats (Tony Biddle)
10/4/87 Smoking in hospitals (Graduate, Jefferson)
10/10/87 Esther Sylvester case: Perils of niceness
(Roofers, Stephen Traitz Jr., Lynne Abraham) 10/30/87 Eagles strike/Veterans Stadium (Norman Braman, Thomas Cronin, Wilson Goode)
11/14/87 Don’t count Frank Rizzo out yet
12/1/87 Convention Center: What $455 million buys
12/12/87 Competition is good for trash work (Wilson Goode)
12/28/87 Ideas to improve the City Charter

1988

1/18/88 Is Constance Clayton indispensable to Philadelphia? (School District)
1/28/88 High Noon parody (Goode, Rizzo, Tayoun, Longstreth, Green
2/15/88 A new era at the free Library? (Private funding, Keith Doms, Elliot Shelkrot)
2/27/88 Bureaucracies protect their turf (Postal Service, Philadelphia Parking Authority, Philadelphia court system, Judicate)
3/11/88 Sprucing up City Hall (Hyman Meyers)
3/30/88 College fraternities (alcohol, rape, Penn)
4/15/88 Convention Center/Playboy Club (Willard Rouse, Gilbert Wetzel, Edmund Bacon)
4/28/88 Vendor war: Who owns city sidewalks? (Center City, Ron Javers)
5/17/88 Best defense is coincidence (urban life, Center City restaurant renaissance, sanitation workers, School District, Bill Green)
5/27/88 Center City District proposal (Sam Peltzman, unintended consequences, Peter Wiley)
6/9/88 Bill Marrazzo: Odyssey of an idealist (Philadelphia Water Department)
6/29/88 Public school alumni (Joseph Pollock, Marciene Mattleman)
7/17/88 Criminal Justice Center (Seymour Kurland)
7/26/88 Gays miss threat to privacy (Philadelphia City Council, Francis Rafferty, Wilson Goode)
8/24/88 Pennsylvania Judicial Review Board (Roofers Union, Esther Sylvester, Stephen Traitz)
9/4/88 Willard Rouse and Pennsylvania Convention Center
9/14/88 After cars, Philadelphia will rise (Edmund Bacon, Leonard Fruchter)
10/4/88 No to the Convention Center (David Boldt)
10/14/88 Orchestra Hall dispute (Philadelphia Orchestra, John Street)
10/27/88 Pine Street Town Watch (Center City, William Brennan)
11/16/88 Betting on Philadelphia (Center City)
11/28/88 Paying the city’s bills (homeless, AIDS, Max Weiner)
12/14/88 Price of big-time football (Temple, Penn, Villanova, Peter Liacouras)
12/23/88 Givers vs. takers mindset (homeless, Minneapolis, Richard Mandel)

1989

1/23/89 Bias in banking industry (Philadelphia banks, WASP establishment, Albert Greenfield, Roy Peraino)
1/31/89 Helen Oakes: The power of her press (Oakes Newsletter)
2/10/89 Big Five basketball (Palestra, Villanova betrayal)
2/25/89 PIDC developing Philadelphia (Joseph Egan Jr.)
3/14/89 Judges judging judges (Joseph Braig, Esther Sylvester, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Juanita Kidd Stout)
4/13/89 Doctors, heed patients (TV in waiting rooms)
4/27/89 Philadelphia and Pennsylvania need each other (courts, SEPTA)
5/2/89 Jack Dorrance eulogy (Campbell Soup, family business, Strawbridge family)
5/19/89 Urban police and crime fight (Frank Rizzo, Robert Fogelson, town watch)
6/3/89 Philadelphia tax reformers (City Charter, Ed Schwartz)
6/11/89 Book review: The Vanderbilt Era, by Louis Auchincloss
6/24/89 Some decisions can’t be decided by courts (, Ortho-Gynol jelly, Chevron, home buyers in racist neighborhoods)
7/7/89 Those no-good yuppie gentrifiers (parody)
7/14/89 Public myths (Judges, Wilson Goode, Richard Nixon, CIA, Richard Thornburgh)
7/31/89 If 76ers leave, the real loser is Spectacor (Camden, Harold Katz)
8/10/89 Gentrification
9/12/89 Developers and restaurants (Philadelphia, Center City, Steve Poses, Larry and Mark Levy)
9/24/89 Book review: Creating America>, by Jan Cohn (Saturday Evening Post, George Horace Lorimer)
9/25/89 Bill Green bids goodbye
10/9/89 Goode was right to save the Eagles (Veterans Stadium, Leonard Tose)
11/5/89 Is Philadelphia really hopeless
11/14/89 Albert Barnes’ legacy (Stephen Girard, Marshall Field, Lincoln University)
11/22/89 Policing Judge I. Raymond Kremer (Gregory Harvey)
12/1/89 Riccardo Muti vs. Buddy Ryan (parody)
12/12/89 Marriott Corp. and Convention Center hotel (unions, neutrality agreement

1990

1/2/90 Reluctant Pollyanna praises Philadelphia (pessimists)
1/20/90 If democracy doesn’t work, what’s next? (Francis Fukuyama, “End of History,” voluntary civic associations, Chestnut Hill
1/23/90 Cable TV’s hard sell (Greater Media Cable)
2/5/90 Philadelphia auto insurance crisis (parody)
2/19/90 Philadelphia mayoral candidates (Peter Hearn, Sam Katz, Charles Bowser, Joseph Vignola, Ed Schwartz)
3/4/90 Drexel name takes a beating (Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken, Francis M. Drexel, Anthony Drexel, I.W. Burnham)
4/2/90 Philadelphia mayor’s mansion (Wilson Goode, Jane Byrne, Chicago)
4/13/04 Benefits of a new Orchestra hall (Philadelphia Orchestra, Academy of Music)
4/15/90 Book review: The House of Morgan, by Ron Chernow
5/6/90 Dick Thornburgh’s image shrinks
6/3/90 Trouble with school voucher plans: parents decide
6/17/90 If city treated taxpayers as customers (panhandlers, street people, SEPTA)
7/15/90 SEPTA Metro proposal (London, Paris, Pennsylvania Turnpike)
7/21/90 Summer weekend in the city (Philadelphia without Philadelphians, Laurel Hill Mansion, Concerts By Candlelight, Andrew Willis)
8/16/90 Iraq did Philadelphia a favor (oil, SEPTA)
8/25/90 Misdirected protests (Sam Evans, tenants’ rights, Korean grocers, AIDS activists
8/31/90 Los Angeles vs. Philadelphia (Getty Museum)
9/8/90 Where is Gov. Casey in Philadelphia’s hour of need?
10/4/90 Republican blame for Philadelphia troubles (Frank Rizzo, Ronald Reagan, Wilson Goode, Gov. Casey, Austin Meehan, Billy Meehan)
10/25/90 Philadelphia’s new luxury hotels (Four Seasons, Rittenhouse, Bellevue, Ritz-Carlton, Hal Rosenbluth)
11/15/90 Philadelphia GOP takes second best (Billy Meehan)
11/23/90 Regionalism can hurt both city and suburb (Greater London Council, Toronto)
12/5/90 AAA speaks for itself on mass transit
12/19/90 Herman Mattleman made a big difference (School District of Philadelphia, Michael Marcase, Constance Clayton, Sam Katz)

1991

1/4/91 Regionalism works (Minnesota, Craig Lewis, SEPTA)
1/16/91 Herb Fogel: His own worst enemy (Hugh Scott, Gateway building)
2/1/91 Roger Tauss (SEPTA, Richard Mandel, Zach Stalberg)
2/15/91 Temple U. identity crisis (Penn, Ivy League, Lee Stetson)
3/2/91 Fund-raiser Bill Batoff: Uneven success record (Rizzo, Howard Gittis)
3/21/91 Did Annenberg stiff Philadelphia (Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
4/2/91 Real estate risk-takers (Willard Rouse, Ronald Rubin, Jack Wolgin)
5/6/91 Ed Rendell as mayoral candidate (Henny Youngman)
5/22/91 Whistleblowers win vindication (Marvin Roffman, Donald Trump, Margot O’Toole, Robert Surrick, Rolf Larsen)
5/31/91 What we can learn from London (Greater London Council, Tony Biddle)
6/14/91 Villanova has killed the Big Five (Ann Reno)
7/5/91 Reason for optimism in Philadelphia (Center City Special Services District, PICA, Convention Center, 30th Street Station renovation, Sixers, Flyers, Borders Bookstore, Wanamaker, airport, Lynne Abraham)
7/24/91 Back to the basics in the mayoral race (Rendell, Rizzo, Katz, William H. Gray)
7/31/91 Philadelphia’s vanishing history (Drexel building)
8/30/91 Indiana’s not back home again (Portland)
9/6/91 Wolf Block Schorr sex discrimination suit (Nancy Ezold, Seymour Kurland)
9/22/91 Do corporations need big cities? (David Heenan, New Corporate Frontier, Princeton, William Whyte)
10/8/91 Philadelphia’s anti-leadership disease (Joe Egan, Peter Hearn, Digby Baltzell, Herman Mattleman, Arlen Specter)
10/19/91 Homeless: Can you spare a coupon? (Craig Snyder, Nancy Gold)
11/16/91 Advantages of city residence and red hair (Center City, Thacher Longstreth)
11/28/91 City’s trash wars (Patrick Starr, Operation SWEEP)
12/9/91 Wilson Goode in retrospect (D. Herbert Lipson)
12/23/91 All Philadelphians, by choice (open letter to Ed Rendell, New Yorkers in Philadelphia, P.S. 9)

1992

1/1/92 Frank Binswanger Sr. eulogy
1/17/92 Korean merchants’ culture gap (Susie, Yang Soon Chang)
2/7/92 Lisa Richette does it her way (courts)
2/21/92 Convention Center and open space
2/28/92 Villanova basketball: Curse of the Big Five (Rolly Massimino)
3/26/92 Teaching outsiders “the Philadelphia way” (gentrification, Fumo, Korean grocers, Muti, Convention Center, Penn admissions)
4/4/92 Philadelphia Weekend Film Festival (Lawrence Kasdan, Lonnie Levin, Pam Schreiber)
4/29/72 Edward Savitz: Danger to society
5/6/92 Pressuring big institutions (Fidelity Bank, FAIR, TV networks, Penn)
5/15/92 Molefi Asante’s Afrocentric road map
6/11/92 Philadelphia police and LA’s Daryl Gates (Rizzo)
6/17/92 Edison Project: Competition for schools
7/3/92 Sweeping miracle of Philadelphia, compared to Washington (Center City District)
7/16/92 City and unions singing old refrain (Rendell, Fumo, Tauss)
7/30/92 Mega-mall vs. tract houses (Bala Golf Club, Wynnefield, Rouse)
9/1/92 On the waterfront: an urban boom (Delaware Avenue, restaurant renaissance)
9/20/92 Specter camp vs. Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church (Lynn Yeakel, Morton Klein, David Watermulder)
10/10/92 New mayors as heroes (Rendell, Goode, Green, Rizzo, Tate)
11/10/92 The Feds have an edifice complex (Gateway Building, GSA, Federal Center)
11/19/92 Catholic schools should seek non-Catholic students
11/26/92 Herb Hesch syndrome (Philadelphia culture)
12/23/92 Rolf Larsen’s accusations reveal a lot

1993

1/11/93 Self-taxing districts make it too easy for cities (Center City District)
1/29/93 Urban neighborhoods are fighting back (Center City, Lynne Abraham)
2/6/93 Center City Commuter Tunnel and its critics (Barbara Kaplan)
2/15/93 Nancy Ezold vs. Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen (Robert Segal)
3/19/93 Merit selection of judges (Pennsylvania)
3/26/93 School vouchers would work— at $4,000, not $1,000
4/1/93 Governor Bob Casey and Pennsylvania court reform (open letter)
4/8/93 Free Library might do better on its own
4/13/93 New companies replace old ones (Sears, Whitman’s Chocolates, Mrs. Paul’s, Campbell Soup, Frank’s)
4/30/93 Middle ground in abortion controversy (Bob Casey, Babette Josephs, Craig Snyder)
5/11/93 Blame city’s decay on Sam Rappaport? (parody)
5/20/93 Penn racial disputes (Sheldon Hackney, Gregory Pavlik, water buffalo incident, Eden Jacobowitz)
6/5/93 Vince Fumo and Pennsylvania gambling (parody)
6/24/93 Modern vigilantes (Jack Slade, Center City hustlers, Lynne Abraham, town watch, Goodfellas, Center City District)
7/24/93 Wall Street Journal’s insidious portrait of Sheldon Hackney (Penn, Robert Bartley, “water buffalo” incident)
8/5/93 Philadelphia’s airport vs. Baltimore and Newark
8/25/93 Hospitals aren’t quiet zones any more (noise)
10/11/93 Music behind the words (Bill Gray,John Street, Ed rendell, Norman Braman, Morton Klein, Buddy Cianfrani, Vincent Fumo)
10/30/93 Philadelphia goodwill delegation to Barnes exhibit in Paris (Ed Rendell, Vail Garvin)
11/19/93 Philadelphia Stock Exchange dilemma: Fight ‘em or join ‘em (Elkins Wetherill)
11/17/93 American Civilization major at Penn: Victim of its own success (Richard Beeman, Murray Murphy)

1994

2/10/94 Philadelphia’s fickle finger of fame (Ed Rendell, Paul Levy, “man of the decade”)
3/3/94 Philadelphia vulnerability to winter’s devastation
3/19/94 A real tough candidate for governor (parody)
5/9/94 Last tenant at 19th and Spruce St. (Michael Asbell, Michael Corenzwit, Jerry Pantelidis)
6/2/94 Free speech for prisoners (Mumia Abu-Jamal, rights of the audience)
6/26/94 Lisa Richette and Rolf Larsen: How they dealt with depression
8/12/94 George Munger eulogy (Penn football)
8/23/94 Philadelphia women executives (Judith Rodin, Rebecca Rimel, Rosemarie Greco, Lynne Abraham, Jane Eisner, Anne d’Harnoncourt, Jews, blacks)
10/15/94 Gay and lesbian couples can strengthen the family (gay marriage)
11/22/94 Running for office, like coaching football (Rick Santorum, Harris Wofford)

1995

1/10/95 Does suburbia breed anxiety? (Philip Langdon)
1/22/95 Did success spoil public TV? (Lewis Lapham, Walter Goodman, PBS, Portland Cinema Society)
3/11/95 Legacy of Billy Meehan: second best (Philadelphia Republicans)
4/21/95 Philadelphia International Airport vs. Denver’s
5/15/95 Wielding the hatchet at Scott Paper (Albert Dunlap)
5/21/95 Governor Tom Ridge, meet David Hornbeck (schools, vouchers)
6/7/95 New Era Foundation (John G. Bennett, Robert Montgomery Scott)
7/24/95 Frank Dolson retirement tribute
8/16/95 Pen & Pencil Club (Wilson Goode, Bill Green, Chuck Stone)
8/25/95 Lynne Abraham and death penalty (Mumia Abu-Jamal)
10/14/95 Thacher Longstreth’s toughest fight
10/28/95 If we can privatize janitors, why not police?
12/1/95 Can Philadelphia survive riverboat casinos?

1996

2/16/96 Pennsylvania Gazette replaces editor Anthony Lyle (Judith Rodin, Penn, Jeremiah Ford, George Munger)
4/10/96 As old Philadelphia firms fold, new ones arise (USHealthcare, Strawbridge & Clothier, Jones Apparel group, Advanta, Comcast, Sidney Kimmel, Leonard Abramson)
8/30/96 Philadelphia Orchestra: Marketing music to survive (Joseph Kluger, Ormandy, Art Museum, Barnes, Opera Company) 11/1/96 Dardanelles restaurant and obnoxious customers)

1998

4/18/98 Buzz Bissinger’s Prayer For the City (Bill Green, Rendell)

2003

4/30/03 Eulogy for Thacher Longtreth

Philadelphia Weekly, 2004

2004

"John Guinther, 1927-2004." Philadelphia Weekly, September 8, 2004, p. 18. (John Guinther eulogy; Neil Ferber, Ed Rendell.)

Philadelphia Forum, 1996-98

Unless otherwise noted, all entries refer to my "Notebook" column.

Virtually all of the entries concern my "Editor's Notebook" column. Years 1981-83 are complete; the period from 1984-94 is less complete but is being updated gradually.

1981

10/7/81 Introduction: "Once and Future City"
10/7/81 Phila. School. District; Phila. Bulletin; Philly Week (Robert Cherry); Jim Quinn; Renata Scotto
10/14/81 Art Spikol at Philadelphia Mag. (Media Watch)
10/14/81 World Series; women in 40s; Inquirer/Muppets
10/21/81 Opera Co. of Phila.; Phila. schools strike
10/28/81 Hors d'oeuvres; Tim Whitaker re Bulletin; Judge Edward Bradley
11/4/81 Scuzz on the Square (Joan Greenberg); Rittenhouse food co-op
11/4/81 Condo conversion at Carlton House
11/11/81 Carlton House condo conversion (follow-up); Charles Peruto; Brooke Shields
11/18/81 Deep thoughts from the Bulletin (Claude Lewis); Charles Peruto; Keep America Beautiful Inc.; Inquirer re law firms; David Stockman
11/25/81 American street vs. Ukrainian-American Club; Carlton House follow-up; Ron Javers (Phila. Magazine); Walt Whitman Democratic Club
12/2/81 City of constant change; Tom Fox (Inquirer); School District; Welcomat listings
12/2/81 Parody of Bulletin's Jackpot promotion
12/9/81 Martin Brown leaves Greenfield; Bulletin; Inquirer; Philadelphia Magazine; condos
12/9/81 "Count Ory" (review) (Penna. Opera Theatre)
12/16/81 How Phila. media view culture (Phila. Past and Present)
12/16/81 John Powers (Black Patent Leather Shoes); weather; Kohler, Wis.; Chestnut YWCA; Michael Marcase; films
12/23/81 Philadelphia Journal folds; The Commissary
12/30/81 Christmas stock-taking; Ford Stevens; Kiki Olson; Meir of Rothenburg (names); Tayoun and pornography; abortion

1982

1/6/82 Poland; Chuck Stone (Daily News); Bulletin (Craig Ammerman); "Reds"
1/13/82 Stories not to expect in 1982; Carlton House follow-up; Bulletin
1/20/82 Perfectionist wives (Lady Bird Johnson); Annson Kenney, Marvin Burak, Joan Kerr obits
1/27/82 Rolex watches; Smithsonian; Carlton House follow-up; Kiki Olson re clothes; Barbara Leff and Super Bowl
2/3/82 Death of the Bulletin 2/10/82 True believers (Bill Dunn); street people; Wilson Goode
2/17/82 Mid-City YWCA; Kenneth Krakauer; Bulletin
2/24/82 Kind words for work; Noel Weyrich on "The Family"
3/3/82 Opera Company of Phila. (more Italians needed); Eugene Roberts (Inquirer); Herman Mattleman; 's name
3/10/82 Folly of the orderly mind (street vendors, Pete Dexter, Ron Javers; Art Spikol leaves Philadelphia Mag.; Adrian Lee
3/17/82 Vanishing supermarkets; Abscam bribes; Inquirer re Joey Coyle
3/24/82 Media watchdogs (Accuracy in Media, National News Council); Phila. public schools (Martin Brown)
3/31/82 Mayor Green vs. WCAU-TV
4/7/82 Mayor Green's libel suit vs. WCAU-TV; Phila. Business Journal; Art Carey re Union League (Inquirer)
4/14/82 Falkland islands war; Barbara Leff; State Senate primaries; Eva Lefkowitz; photocopy shop
4/21/82 Center City Proprietors; Helen Oakes; David Boldt (Inquirer); Daniel McElhatton
4/28/82 Weighing legislative candidates (Rappaport, Josephs, Britton); Israel in Sinai; will Rizzo run?
5/5/82 City Council freebies; Opera Co. of Phila (Pavarotti); Curtis; Mozart on the Square; La Boheme
5/12/82 Why Philadelphia is different (Tom Moore, Phila. Mag.); Carlton House condo follow-up
5/19/82 Welcomat copies for sale (United News); Penn's alumni parade; who misses the Bulletin?
5/26/82 What makes Rizzo run? Phila. Folk Fair; restaurant critics; Harold Katz (76ers)
6/2/82 Why legal gambling doesn't work; Rizzo; Milton Street; Bill Dunn; Sheraton Hotel; Inquirer Sunday book review; Rebecca Sinkler
6/9/82 Doctors, gamblers, Rizzo libel suit
6/16/82 Principal search at Greenfield School; Phila. Mag re alternative newspapers (John Cochran); A.J. Liebling; gun control
6/23/82 J.P. Morgan meets Anthony Drexel, 1871
6/30/82 John Bunting resigns (First Penna. Bank); Inquirer price hike; Mark Mandelkern departs, Larry Singer arrives
7/7/82 WASP editor named to key post (parody, Chris Woodside)
7/7/82 Why Americans don't vote; housing solution; Opera Co. of Phila (Il Gallo Nero)
7/14/82 The case for a secular Israel
7/14/82 Candide review (Pennsylvania Opera Theater)
7/21/82 Queen Elizabeth's contract; Mann Music center; my father at Robin Hood Dell; Hillary's ice cream
7/28/82 Unsung heroes: Royal Dano; Gloria Johns; Inquirer; Carlton House
8/4/82 Newspaper editorials; Wilson Goode; Avis slogan; Joe Adcock, McLean family (Bulletin)
8/11/82 Gay revolution; Ron Javers and Daily News; Lisa Carol Burden
8/18/82 Future of Chestnut Street; Philadelphia Stars (football team); Dorothy Storck re doctors (Inquirer); Jeanne Sutton
8/25/82 Opera Co. of Philadelphia on TV; Derek Davis becomes theater critic; Center City con men; Philadelphia cab drivers
9/1/82 Death penalty; Rosenbergs; Elizabeth R on public TV
9/8/82 WHYY: begging vs. selling; bargain dinners
9/15/82 Capitalism v. communism, city vs. country; Rizzo's gambler son-in-law
9/22/82 Princess Grace Kelly eulogy
9/29/82 Israel: Persecutors and victims; Vince Papale; Judith Sills; WHYY
10/6/82 Grace Kelly and Israel follow-up
10/13/82 Newspaper strike (Inquirer, Daily News); Muti (Philadelphia Orchestra); pro football strike alternative (Penn at Franklin Field)
10/20/82 Real-world survival; An Officer and a Gentleman; The New Paper; Rizzo's candidacy; Ronald Reagan Jr.
10/27/82 Gil Spencer's endorsement logic (Daily News); fake-fur hat (George I. Eakle)
11/3/82 Why Reaganomics hasn't worked; Penn-Princeton game; Tim Whitaker
11/10/82 Library Company; Geographical Society; Frank Dolson (Inquirer) re pro football strike; Inquirer editorials
11/17/82 Harvard band's grandiloquence; Christmas promotions; Barry Dimson and bike parking; reverse appeal of snobbish florists, etc.
11/24/82 Blind spots (Anthony Lukas, etc.); Sophia Loren; Advertising Age re Welcomat
12/1/82 Pack mentality journalism (Batoff, Gittis, Pete Dexter, Larry Fields, Tom, Fox); "Street of Women" (1700 block of Sansom St.)
12/1/82 "Our Vanishing States" (parody of Inquirer series)
12/8/82 Death in 40s (Bill Klenk, Cassie Mackin); Strawbridge & Clothier food hall
12/15/82 Why private clubs discriminate
12/15/82 Philadelphians for all seasons (300 great Philadelphians)
12/22/82 Our readers' assumptions; Mary Cunningham (Bendix Corp.)
12/29/82: The word "should"; Len Lear at comedy club; Henny Youngman; Jim Naughton

1/5/83 Jack Kelly's mugging; bank MACC machines; Inquirer re NFL officials; Reed Stevens and "Madonna on the Parkway&"
1/12/83 Population control; Judith Sills
1/19/83 Broad Street scene; "Grammar Court"; Rizzo candidacy
1/26/83 Thornburgh inaugural rhetoric; Frank Ford v. Dolly Banks
2/2/83 Welcomat's longevity; population control (follow-up); Jeanne Moreau; El Al
2/9/83 An accidental evening (Curtis); Joe Paterno; health foods (Jeffrey Rosenstock); Mid-City YWCA
2/16/83 Snowstorm; YWCA Sweetheart Dance; SEPTA bus vignette; Rizzo candidacy
2/23/83 Gandhi and guilt vs. fear
3/2/83 Advertising influence and Welcomat; Jesse Jackson
3/9/83 Religion (Cathy Gardner, Don Cox, Bob Blacksberg); Jesse Jackson follow-up; M*A*S*H
3/16/83 Anne Gorsuch Burford (EPA); Shana Alexander on Jean Harris; chic tramps (Eugene Griffin)
3/23/83 Rizzo-Goode debate; Beatty on SEPTA; Don Cox on Chinatown and Inquirer; Hugh Ronald eulogy
3/30/83 My pet peeves (also see 5/4/83); Middle East Restaurant's 25th anniversary; Stanley Green; astrology column
4/6/83 Rizzo's immaturity; Mehta plays Wagner at Israel Philharmonic
4/13/83 Julie's bat mitzvah; me as super in Opera Company's "Carmen"
4/20/83 East Germany
4/20/83 (Feature) Parody of Inquirer "Personalities" column
4/27/83 My role as opera super in Carmen
5/4/83 Power of teachers; crime of rape; more pet peeves; Chocho Japanese restaurant; film critics (Albert Herchick); Welcomat circulation
5/11/83 Teacher and student mentality; Inquirer re Rolf Larsen
5/18/83 Rebuttals to Bob Sanders (Marxism), Len Lear (city planning, Disney World, prostitution); SEPTA bus pickpockets follow-up
5/25/83 Post-primary proposals (Goode, Rizzo, Egan, Leonard)
6/1/83 Mature employees; farewell Chris Woodside, welcome Jill Schoenstein
6/8/83 Fighting communism peacefully; complaints from theaters and restaurants
6/15/83 Lipson; Edghill v. Philadelphia Mag. libel suit
6/22/83 Misuse of economics (Ann Davidon; Marxism); Edghill v. Philadelphia Mag. libel suit (follow-up); Terry Moore and Howard Hughes; Welcomat advertisers
6/29/83 Holgar Linden obit
7/6/83 Protecting national secrets (Donald Regan); Solzhenitsyn; Steve Fried on Fred Mann in Philadelphia Mag.; Hertz and Avis
7/13/83 Boston; Inquirer, Daily News on Eagles; Valerie Drake; Girard Bank; Jaruzelski; Christine Woodward
7/20/83 Lawyers and journalists (Sprague v. Inquirer, libel suits)
7/27/83 Sexual morality (AIDS and Jim Stanton article)
8/3/83 Convention Center location (Leonard Fruchter); gay and straight
8/10/83 Penn's Landing summer dances; Taxin and historic preservation
8/24/83 Perry Ellis; George Will; Robert Bartley; pet peeves; Bible on sodomy; Thomas Hulce
8/31/83 Getting Welcomat's attention; my 100th issue; I step down as film critic; Center City porno houses
9/7/83 Gender integration at Central H.S.; Phila. school teachers; Amy Dobernick; Nicholas Ifft on AIDS; Rendell corrects injustice
9/14/83 Reagan and Soviets; After Dark section, expansion into West Phila.; Inquirer on Orwell
9/21/83 Clark DeLeon (Inquirer) and "institutional mind"
9/28/83 September depression; Muti and Phila. Orchestra; James Watt; Clark DeLeon follow-up
10/5/83 Center City musical renaissance; DP Class of ’64 (Tauss, Ruthrauff); Derek Davis
10/12/83 Herb Lipson's racism (Wilson Goode); Frank Rossi (Inquirer)
10/19/83 Vietnam (PBS); Al Meltzer on Howard Cosell; Pennsylvania census forecast
10/26/83 Frog 10th anniversary party;
11/2/83 MacJannets; U.S. forces in Lebanon; mayoral election
11/9/83 My over-40 generation; Jewish population; Tom Fox on Teamsters (Inquirer)
11/16/83 Erasmus and &"ugly ducklings" (Phila. Gay News); Stu Goldman; my bicycle
11/23/83 Case for nuclear arms; Abe Goodhart on hospitals
1/30/83 Greyhound strike
12/7/83 James K. Polk (Beirut, Reagan); Laurence Salzmann (Romania); Mattleman; Four Seasons Hotel
12/14/83 Yuri Andropov "interview"
12/14/83 Momentum theories; AIDS and dentists; Holgar Linden follow-up (Jaipaul); Marc Paller; Philadelphia Lawyers follow-up
12/21/83 The trouble with pro football; Gay News; Jim O'Brien; Christmas
12/28/83 Fatalism and 1984; Len Lear on English; South Carolina rape case

1/11/84 Royal Pickwickians; Jaipaul Galleries; Shimon Braun (Waves)
1/18/84 Computers; my word processor
1/25/84 Opera Co.'s Faust
2/1/84 William Buckley's Overdrive
2/8/84 Alexander Cockburn and Village Voice
2/15/84 Acel Moore's conflict (Inquirer)
2/22/84 Death of condomania
2/29/84 Foglietta-Tayoun debate
3/7/84 New Bedford gang-rape trial
3/14/84 Philadelphia Orchestra and its new persona
3/21/84 Foglietta-Tayoun
3/28/84 Rating restaurants
4/11/84 Editor-writer relationships (tips for success)
4/18/84 Newspaper ethics codes
4/25/84 Who makes a difference?
5/2/84 Future of Center City
5/9/84 Frank Rossi and Dorothy Storck 's leftist economics
5/16/84 Value of bad ideas (re Chuck MacNamara col.)
5/23/84 Rouse's towers
6/6/84 City Council and "gay pride" endorsement
6/13/84 My paranoid friends
6/20/84 Gay pride and the pack mentality
7/18/84 Back from France
7/25/84 Chartres parody
8/1/84 Employers as consumers
8/8/84 Nixon's resignation, ten years later
8/15/84 My role models
9/5/84 Jack Slade
9/12/84 Recognizing our enemies
9/19/84 Free Library
9/26/84 Nancy Reagan- Pat Nixon
10/3/84 Welcomat's spiritual cousins
10/10/84 Presidential debates
10/17/84 Bush-Ferraro debates
10/24/84 Doris Lessing writing under pseudonym; Richette.
10/31/84 Abortion issue
11/7/84 Libel suits; our struggle
11/14/84 Landslides and backlashes
11/28/84 Dr. Ies Spetter at Fieldston
12/12/84 Welcomat part-timers
12/19/84 Bailing out Leonard Tose (Eagles, Vet)
12/19/84 "Boredroom" parody (Philadelphia Magazine)
12/26/84 Good years/ bad years

1/2/85 Eagles-Arizona parody (Welcomat moving to Arizona)
1/23/85 Generational segregation
1/30/85 Curtis, Horszowski, Opera Co.
2/6/85 Helms, Bob Sanders, taking audience for granted
2/13/85 My charity giving
2/20/85 Middle-class values
2/27/85 Noel Weyrich vs. Rick Lyman
3/6/85 Why the Bulletin died
3/13/85 Playboy Club/ Leonard Tose
3/20/85 Eugene Ormandy
4/3/85 The trouble with lawyers
4/10/85 Instead of lawyers
4/17/85 Voluntary power (lawyers)
4/24/85 Ice cream shops; Dad under ether
5/1/85 Daily News Pulitzer Prize (Rich Aregood)
5/8/85 Reagan at Bitburg, Germany; Columbia Journalism Review
attacks Manhattan Inc. & Herb Lipson
5/15/85 Welcomat writers (Meline, McGoldrick)
5/22/85 MOVE bombing (Osage Ave.)
5/29/85 Sambor on MOVE; Welcomat writers and alumni
6/5/85 Accents (Ruth Westheimer); Weyrich on Aregood; Bob Sheridan
6/12/85 Willard Rouse, Herb Lipson
6/19/85 Portland (Ind.) Runkle tragedy, MOVE; Reed Stevens; Lisa
6/26/85 Terrorism (TWA hijackers)
7/3/85 Reagan solutions to life; Lipson and Manhattan Inc.
7/10/85 VCRs; Middle East
7/17/85 Stockman; pop music obscenities; John McEnroe
7/24/85 MOVE on TV; Biddles; film critics
7/31/85 Race and responsibility; Fieldston reunion; Bob Sanders
8/7/85 Birth of Applause Magazine

9/25/85 Daily News demise
9/25/85 Newspaper strike special: News you might have missed

10/9/85 Bernard Jacobson and Philadelphia Orchestra

10/23/85 Why we need the Inquirer

12/11/85 Appointment in Angon (fiction; France)
12/26/85 Minneapolis

1/8/86 Neil Ferber case
1/22/86 Art of making water
3/26/86 Vincent Fumo's house and garden
5/14/86 Rizzo-Welcomat libel trial
6/11/86 A child of the war
6/18/86 Lefcourt syndrome
7/23/86 Name "Rottenberg" (Meir of Rothenburg)
9/17/86 Daily News's impending demise
10/1/86 Menahem Golan smells a deal
10/15/86 Birmingham's law (re immigrant Jewish families)
11/5/86 Feminist fallacies
11/19/86 Fieldston Lake League football
12/17/86 Interview with God
12/23/86 Old girlfriends

1/21/87 Sale of New Yorker
3/4/87 Rabbi Caine and Reconstructionist College
5/13/87 Parody of Gary Hart
7/1/87 My 300th issue as editor
7/22/87 Richard Cohen
9/16/87 Bernard Cooke (con man)
9/23/87 Parody of Bork hearings
9/30/87 Bork as hired gun
10/14/87 DR as bimbo expert
10/21/87 Bambi Olden at P.S. 9 (New York)
11/4/87 Rosie Kirschbaum
12/30/87 Lee Beloff parody

1/13/88 Todd Sheckman, death of
2/24/88 Rupert Murdoch
4/13/88 Middle East "population transfer" theory
4/20/88 Farrakhan
5/11/88 Inquirer and "curse of bigness"
5/25/88 Jewish Exponent and Soviet Communism
6/8/88 End of Rizzo libel suit; Herb Lipson
6/22/88 Jane Amsterdam
6/29/88 "A voice on the phone" (Chicago, Wall Street Journal)
7/6/88 Inconceivable changes
7/13/88 Parody of Dan and famous writers
8/10/88 Hotel du Buet (France)
8/17/88 Changes in France
8/24/88 Quayle parody (me in Portland, Ind.)
9/7/88 William Woodward tragedy
9/14/88 Date rape
9/21/88 People who make a difference
10/5/88 Town & Country as egalitarian magazine
10/26/88 Inquirer editorials, signed by board
11/16/88 Parody of Inquirer obituaries
12/7/88 Who is a Jew?
12/14/88 Bonfire of the Vanities
12/21/88 Christmas in Portland, Ind.

1/18/89 George Martens (Fieldston School, N.Y.)
2/15/89 WXPN
2/22/89 Khomeini and Rushdie
3/1/89 George Bush in St. Louis
3/15/89 Philadelphia leaders
3/22/89 Innovators of the '80s
3/29/89 Girls High scandals
4/5/89 Pavarotti at the Cathedral
4/26/89 Michael Milken
5/10/89 Unstrung Heroes
5/24/89 Democracy's decade
6/7/89 Orwell was wrong
6/14/89 Shirer on Germany
6/21/89 Milton Rothman, then and now (senior citizens parody)
6/28/89 Bruce Schimmel parody (as Hitler)
7/5/89 Brooklyn girl rescued from fire
7/19/89 1789 vs. 1776
8/2/89 Ciel dies (our parakeet)
8/23/89 Michigan Riviera
9/13/89 Philadelphian apartments parody (follow-up: 10/4/89)
10/27/89 Quakers and Steve Lopez
11/8/89 La Traviata revisited (parody)
11/15/89 Fall of Berlin wall
11/22/89 Buddy Ryan- Muti parody
12/13/89 My unique "memberships" (The Self-Esteem Sweepstakes)
12/20/89 Is Shakespeare overrated?
12/27/89 Evaluating the '80s

1990

1/10/90 Middle East predictions
1/17/90 Muti's lecture to audience (parody)
1/24/90 ACT-UP confrontation
2/14/90 Annotated Steve Lopez
2/28/90 How to keep readers' attention
3/7/90 Ron James
3/21/90 Margaret Everitt farewell (Opera Co. of Phila.)
3/28/90 Learning from movies
4/4/90 Muti's announced departure
4/11/90 My speech to letter-writers (parody)
5/2/90 Babette Josephs
5/9/90 Richard Sprague and Greg Walter
6/13/90 Knight-Ridder and Daily News
6/20/90 Councilman David Cohen parody
6/27/90 Manhattan Inc. obit
7/11/90 Grandpa and Christy Mathewson
8/8/90 Hussein , Gene Roberts, David Boldt, Inquirer
8/15/90 Dictators/Guinther/Miss Saigon
8/22/90 "No Smoking/" rules/CBS/WCAU-AM
8/29/90 Bremerton parody
9/5/90 Chateau de La Manderie (France)
9/12/90 Welcomat's 1,000th issue
9/19/90 Hong Kong and China
9/26/90 Age of grandparents
10/3/90 Sawallisch and World War II
10/10/90 Women sportswriters
10/17/90 Free speech and Dartmouth Review
10/24/90 Gene Roberts leaves Inquirer
10/31/90 Princeton University songs
11/7/90 Rupert Murdoch and Harold Evans/Miss Rosenthal at Fieldston
11/14/90 Meir Kahane
11/21/90 InquirerBabbitt/boosters/Bulletin Almanac closes
11/28/90 Ideal mayoral candidate/Au Bon Pain parody
12/5/90 Urban renaissance "diary"
12/12/90 Milton Street, Meir Kahane, Vanity Fair, Leonard Stern, free Daily News<
12/19/90 I meet Reagan/King succeeds Roberts at Inquirer
12/26/90 Titanic survivor fantasy

1/2/91 Inquirer's Norplant apology editorial; Jim Castle
2/6/91 Rating mayoral candidates
2/13/91 The Grifters
2/20/91 Sprague vs. Inquirer (re Camiel)
3/27/91 Orwell was wrong (Gulf War & technology)
4/24/91 Noel Weyrich-Dan Rottenberg feud
5/15/91 Welcomat management tactics vs. recession
5/29/91 Lillian Gording's gag apology
6/5/91 What's wrong with the Inquirer: salt vs. food
6/12/91 Darrell Sifford's living hell
6/26/91 Bill Gray resignation from Congress
7/10/91 The Welcomat and me (20th anniversary issue)
7/17/91 Nine candidates for the death penalty
7/24/91 Frank Rizzo eulogy
8/14/91 Ron Javers fired at Philadelphia Magazine; David Boldt; Susan McAninley leaves
8/21/91 Rizzo and me
8/28/91 New tyranny in Russia
9/4/91 Germans and French; Eliot Kaplan; Michael Korn
9/11/91 Russian resentment; Trudy Rubin; etc.
9/18/91 Willie Williams; Mark Bowden; Vince Fumo
9/25/91 Saga of the Inquirer (semi-parody)
10/2/91 The '50s; Inquirer (Max King)
10/9/91 West Bank settlements
10/16/91 Parody of Clarence Thomas hearings
10/23/91 "What went wrong?" (Barlett and Steele)
10/30/91 Closing of Commissary; Barlett & Steele; Rizzo cronies
11/6/91 Martha Schneiderman at Camp MacJannet
11/13/91 Health protection; Wofford; Susan Seiderman departure
11/20/91 McBurney-Fieldston basketball game; City Paper's birthday
11/27/91 Riverboat gambling
12/4/91 Jewish Exponent censorship
12/11/91 Sheldon Hackney/ Pennsylvania Gazette parody
12/18/91 George Gerbner and TV hearings; rape; football quarterbacks
12/24/91 Part-time jobs; RichardWagner; hate speech
12/31/91 Year of the Optimist; Braman/Buddy Ryan

1/8/92 The Simpsons; Morton Klein
1/15/92 Bush; Rendell; restaurant recession
1/22/92 Scott Tucker and "healthy sex life"; optimists vs. pessimists
1/29/92 The Bulletin; Dow Jones; gay dignity and sexual liberation
2/5/92 Muti: myth and reality; smokers&#8217;'h
2/19/92 Philadelphia Business Hall of Fame
2/26/92 Rendell and city workers; Time Inc.; Doonesbury; Muti
3/4/92 Pat Buchanan
3/11/92 La Marseillaise (new lyrics proposed in France); TV Guide
3/18/92 City Hall cleanup; Villanova basketball; columnists; John Street
3/25/92 Noise and light; Phila. unions; restaurants; Nixon's return
4/8/92 Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen); business hall of fame, etc.,
4/15/92 Legendary Philadelphians
4/22/92 Clinton and Bush; Mark Mendel and Herb Lipson
4/29/92 Muti farewell; Eddie Savitz
5/6/92 Rodney King riot in LA; Inquirer on Pew Foundation
5/13/92 Arlen Specter; Morton Klein; massage parlor ads; Cianfrani
5/20/92 Things I'll miss about the recession; gays and the media
5/27/92 Trudy Rubin; David Cohen & supermarket scanners; George Bush column
6/3/92 Ross Perot; Stephen Wade
6/10/92 My 50th birthday
6/17/92 Diane Allen vs. CBS; Daryl Gates; Nan Duskin; Zaberer's
7/1/92 Clinton vs. Sister Souljah; Shamir (Israel); Carrie Rickey (Inquirer)
7/8/92 New Yorker/ Town & Country
7/15/92 Hackney vs. Whittle; gambling; Milosevic
7/22/92 Clinton/Bush/Perot; DeLeon/Rizzo; Clinton/Flowers; Slovakia
7/29/92 The trouble with newspapers (Knight-Ridder)
8/19/92 Quebec vacation; The Player
8/26/92 Woody Allen's sex scandal
9/2/92 Steve Lopez; porno shops
9/9/92 Barbara's "Best of Philly"; Inquirer re ACT-UP
9/16/92 Anita Hill
9/23/92 Indian summer Sunday in Fairmount Park
9/23/92 Unwed mothers; Wilson Goode's memoirs
10/7/92 Columbus
10/14/92 Alan Halpern legacy, role of magazines
10/21/92 Rolf Larsen disciplined; Wilfred Santiago
10/28/92 Sympathy for George Bush; Specter; Erasmus High (Brooklyn)
11/4/92 Bryn Mawr Presbyterian
11/11/92 Election campaign reflections; Specter and Yeakel
11/18/92 Gays in military; Michael Cohen arrives
11/25/92 Larry Platt/City Paper/ Philadelphia Magazine
12/2/92 Murderer in Serbia; Philadelphia Magazine (Carol Saline); Linda Santoro
12/9/92 Bill Cosby; Marge Schott
12/9/92 (Books) Review of Ralph Keyes' "Nice Guys Finish Seventh"
12/16/92 Phyllis Kaniss/TV news; Tony Ridder
12/23/92 Camp Takajo and Palestinians; Rolf Larsen
12/30/92 George Bush's vision; Inquirer editorial

1/6/93 Grandpa Marc eulogy
2/10/93 Ethnic slurs (parody)
2/17/93 Porno ads
3/3/93 Liberal Economics/Delilah's Den; Steve Fried/Philadelphia Magazine
3/17/93 Man of the Millennium (main list, 3/24/93)
4/14/93 Marian Anderson eulogy
4/28/93 Guide to Welcomat letter-writers
5/12/93 Villain of the Year
6/9/93 Lani Guinier; also Malcolm v. Masson
6/16/93 Rizzo book by Paolantonio
6/30/93 Pat Nixon eulogy
6/14/93 Why I'm leaving
6/28/93 Farewell column as editor
9/8/93 Inquirer writing style
11/3/93 Lani Guinier
12/29/93 Smitty (Alton Smith) at Fieldston (New York City)

1/19/94 Inside (Exponent) and Jews for Jesus
3/2/94 Black Muslims
3/30/94 Cigarettes
4/13/94 Rendell- Lisa DePaulo- Daily News
4/27/94 Eugene Roberts and New York Times
5/11/94 Nixon eulogy
6/8/94 Urban fantasies
6/22/94 Ellen Goodman/ Richard Cohen
7/6/94 Liquor by the drink
8/3/94 Rizzo statue
8/17/94 Victoria Hoffman drowning
8/31/94 News drops theater reviews
9/14/94 Albert Hobbs
9/28/94 Sam Rappaport eulogy
10/26/94 Inquirer on TV
11/23/94 Annenberg evaluated.

Daily News (Philadelphia ), 1978-2004

1978

"Stiff upper lips." Philadelphia Daily News, October 23, 1978. (Op-ed column re chaos at London Heathrow Airport.)

2004

"A Center City Street Strikes Back." Philadelphia Daily News, September 24, 2004, p. 19. (Waverly Street, mugging.)