Monica Yant Kinney: Young lives are a too-open book
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist The summer before I started college, I received a letter with the names and phone numbers of my freshman roommates. We talked a few times to discuss salient...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Blind student charts his path to college life
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist ALLENTOWN - Muhlenberg College has so many trees, the cicadas sound like a symphony. At this moment, however, Patrick Molloy hears only static. "Those trees...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Christie's softer education-reform approach
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Nine months into 2011, you may be startled to learn this is the year of education reform in New Jersey. Especially if you moved here for the schools. Sure, the...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Monica Yant Kinney: Voter ID backpedaling leads to...
I have not tested this theory, but I bet officials at the Pennsylvania Department of State have never issued as many news releases touting as many substantive changes to any process as they have while...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: 'No' shows Christie doesn't do what he doesn't want to do
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist TRENTON - If running for president is the ultimate display of ego, what does sitting out the 2012 race say about Chris Christie? The governor of New Jersey...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: When only a wall separates a home from blight's harm
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist On a busy corner in Burholme stands something you shouldn't see in this stable section of leafy, livable Northeast Philadelphia. The brick-and-stone twin house...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: New sex-abuse charges put institutional leaders on notice
Monica Yant Kinney, Inquirer Columnist Posted: Sunday, November 4, 2012, 4:01 AM After the mixed-message end to the criminal trial of the Rev. James J. Brennan and Msgr. William J. Lynn, I speculated...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: New website offers guidance on caring for elderly parents
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist As an only child living 600 miles from my retired parents, I fear the future. How and where my folks will grow old escapes me. I can't imagine forcing them to...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Young Philadelphia priest seeks to be 'an instrument of...
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist How, exactly, do I ask a man of faith if he's out of his mind? I mean no disrespect. But I know that's what readers want to know. Especially Catholics still so...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Amateur radio operators enjoy nondependence day
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist On a stunning Saturday in suburbia, in a hilly park where George Washington pondered an attack on Philadelphia, the hams prepare for modern disaster. They...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: A matter of life and love: Adoptee finally finds roots
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Susan Perry never felt the urge to pry. Adopted at 3 months in 1950 by a Haddonfield couple, the English teacher lived a rich life made possible by the...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Soda-tax defeat is just the latest fizzle for Nutter
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Somewhere in East Falls, Ed Rendell is howling. He's on the phone with John Street, wondering how a mayor could have so little juice that he couldn't persuade...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Monica Yant Kinney: A.C. open for business, despite...
Video: Legends in Concert: 'Under the Boardwalk' Monica Yant Kinney, Inquirer Columnist Posted: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 3:01 AM Sometime this week, you're going to start spending money. A lot of...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: New Jersey muddies the water on beach access
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist It's been nearly 10 years since I marched with the Raleigh Avenue Rebels, but I remember the steamy hike as clearly as the sparkling water the day we tried,...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Female-friendly car guys are tuning up the charm
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist So let me tell you about the time I went to a South Philly auto body shop to buy a high-fashion handbag and left with a date to learn about batteries, belts,...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Who killed Pa.'s foreclosure-rescue program?
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Pity the Pennsylvanians who've recently been laid off and found themselves late on their mortgage. If only they had fallen on hard times sooner. As Gov....
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: In Camden, balking at an added bureaucrat
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Camden Mayor Dana Redd cut a portrait of discomfort in a long-sleeved suit, scarf, and scowl. Only a crisis could spur an outdoor news conference in 93-degree...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Christie and Sweeney are New Jersey's political Batman...
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Last week, Mayor Nutter sputtered in attempting to sway even nine former friends on City Council to see the schools crisis his way. He craved a soda tax to...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Chaput isn't the change reform-minded Catholics had in...
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist As messages from on high go, this one couldn't be clearer: All you reform-minded Catholics out there had better keep on praying, or exit to the nearest...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Ailing cardinal has a duty to testify if he is able
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist On Pages 115-117 of the 2011 grand jury report on clergy sex abuse in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, citizen jurors described the dilemma of whether to...
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View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: When NJN goes dark, one staffer will face a real 'life...
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist In the war against public employees in New Jersey and beyond, the enemy is an entitled bureaucrat or lazy teacher enjoying a lifestyle and benefits you paid...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Facebook cracks down on breast-feeding
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Blame the hippo. Had Genny, the 3,000-pound queen of the Adventure Aquarium, not glided up to the edge of her glass tank as Lynn Heinisch breast-fed her son...
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By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist About That Husband . . . In an interview, Michael Nutter talks of cooperation as mayor. A good start, writes Monica Yant Kinney. B1. TODAY ON PHILLY.COM...
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By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Johnny Doc lacked Fumo's juice. Monica Yant Kinney, A10. TODAY ON PHILLY.COM...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Kiss-off for wine kiosks
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist I'm standing in front of one of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's new wine kiosks in a Montgomery County ShopRite, thinking that if this is the future of...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Whistle-blowing principal reflects on what happens when...
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist I had flashbacks over the weekend reading about the mysterious, miraculous test-score gains at Theodore Roosevelt Middle School in East Germantown. As reported...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Singer tries rising above online din
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist She's got the looks, poise, and voice. But whether spunky Chester Springs singer-songwriter Katelyn Krapf makes it - wherever resides these days - depends on...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Pa. competing with Mob bookies
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist When Pennsylvania officials launched a state lottery in 1972, optimistic bureaucrats predicted the end of the illegal numbers racket. Five years later, the...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: With 53 candidates on the ballot, will Philadelphia...
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Back in March, on the day City Councilman Frank DiCicco announced that he would abandon his reelection bid, he gathered reporters in his office to discuss the...
View ArticleMonica Yant Kinney: Camden's unmet need: Commitment
By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Seven years ago, I attended the first meeting of the Camden Economic Recovery Board with a raised eyebrow and a poison pen. Hordes of state overlords packed...
View ArticleBreast-milk sharing is a trend despite government warnings
By Marie McCullough Inquirer Staff Writer Lynn Heinisch says her infant son's life was saved by mothers' milk - mothers' milk. Heinisch wasn't producing enough breast milk for Liam, and formula made...
View ArticleFacebook, Remind Me Again, What Breasts Are OK?
When you look at this photo, what do you see? Nudity? Adult content? Cleavage? All about the breasts? Or babies being fed? Facebook deemed this photo inappropriate for sponsorship (paid advertising),...
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