John L. Micek

Words of wisdom and a warning
My best friend was around to my house on a recent Saturday for a long overdue reunion...
Democrats don’t want Biden, but probably can’t win without him
Surprising exactly no one, President Joe Biden announced his re-election bid last week, setting up a likely 2024 rematch with former President Donald Trump in a campaign that will. My head hit my keyboard. Apparently, I’m not alone...
Woke? Our transgender friends and neighbors are wide awake.
Let’s get a few things out the way right now. Transgender women are women. And children who are coming to terms with their sexual and gender identity, often under the most difficult of circumstances, deserve our love and care...
She lost her grandson to gun violence
There is no silence like the silence of a house where a child once was. Last fall, her grandson, Nicolas Elizalde, was shot and killed outside Roxborough High School in Philadelphia. Nick was just 14 years old...
Shocking new data shows we can’t stop fighting hate
If you ever needed a reminder that we can’t turn a blind eye to hate, new data from the Anti-Defamation League should more than do the trick. The civil rights group tallied 6,751 incidents in 2022, up from the 4,876 incidents nationwide in 2021...
Venus, Jupiter and the humbling reminder of our own place in creation
I was out in my front yard earlier this week, staring up at the night sky, and feeling impossibly humbled by the scale and the grandeur of the universe. Such celestial phenomena happen frequently...
It’s time for all states to abolish the death penalty
As he called for an end to the death penalty last week, Pennsylvania Gov. And they’re so important, they bear repeating here: “The commonwealth should not be in the business of putting people to death,” Shapiro said...
What’s behind the attack on Black history?
It’s tough to decide what’s more odious: Florida Gov...
No, guns do kill people. And the solution is glaringly obvious
My Nhan, 65, immigrated to the United States from Vietnam in the 1980s, and made her home in California’s San Gabriel Valley, in a community called Rosemead. She never got the chance. last weekend. just 48 hours later, had to lose their lives...
Some historic challenges face new Pennsylvania governor
Moments after he became Pennsylvania’s 48th chief executive, Gov. “To those who didn’t cast their vote for me, I heard you too...
After a shot of normal, chaos as usual in Pennsylvania
Well that didn’t take long. For a minute there “the birthplace of American democracy actually lived up to its promise,” I rather optimistically wrote...

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