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Showing articles 1 to 6 of 6 by Jeff Deeney
September 4th, 2008
The Bloods and the Crips surface in Chester.
Anti-violence advocates held rallies, and
editorials demanding change were penned. But one word was conspicuously
missing from Chester's urgent debate about violent crime: gangs.
April 10th, 2008
Some East Germantown Muslims still abstain from American democracy, but one leader says that's changing.
"When someone in the Muslim community tells you, 'We don't vote,'
they're coming from an old way of thinking. That really was the case;
for a while we stayed away from voting, and some members still feel
that way. Things
have changed a lot, though."
March 6th, 2008
Behind the big shelters and agencies, tiny do-gooder groups keep people alive.
Grassroots homeless services are responsible for
supporting and sustaining a tremendous volume of the city's homeless —
often filling in the gaps left by the bigger players.
May 17th, 2007
A drug maker's guilty plea vindicates Fishtown man whose son fatally OD'd.
"What did he take last night?" Bisch asked. "Don't lie. Just tell me. I need to know." Eddie's friends looked at one another and decided to spill it. Bisch wasn't messing around. "Oxy. He took Oxy at a party last night."
February 1st, 2007
A new, faster way to ruin your credit. (Just add hookers and blow.)
"Before we get started, let me ask you ..." He pauses, a little nervous, worried he's about to say something out of line. "What else do you got?" He lets the question hang.
"What is it that you want?"
That, my friends, is the $16,000 question.
October 26th, 2006
Slant: Al's Story
It's already getting cold out there.
Al sits on a wooden park bench outside City Hall every evening when the weather's warm. He's been a regular here for a lot longer than I've been passing by. Ask him and he'll tell you about being homeless in Philadelphia.
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