Political and Social Commentary and other writings, published and soon to be published

• "How to Fight the Politics of Racism" The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 1990.

• “New Acme Should Meet Needs of Community as Well as Corporation,” Mt. Airy Times-Express, May 9, 2001.

•  “Misunderstandings Abound in Cecilian Village Project,” Chestnut Hill Local, January 18, 2003

• “Growing Up in a Catskills Hotel,” was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in March 2003.

• “Why we may have to fight,” Chestnut Hill Local, March 13, 2003.

• “R8: We Are Not Out of the Woods Yet,” Chestnut Hill Local, July 3, 2003

• “SEPTA and Snidely Whiplash,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 9, 2003.

•  “R8 Preservation Depends Upon Budget Deal, Mt. Airy Times Express, August 6, 2003

• “Justice and Responsibility for Self” was presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in September, 2003. I gave an earlier version of this paper at the Southwest Political Science Association in March 1997.

• Inventing (and Un-inventing) West Mt. Airy, Mt. Airy Times Express, January 7, 2004

• "SEPTA’s bumpy deficit-plagued road" The Philadelphia Inquirer, May  20, 2004

• “Put SEPTA On The Rails With Slots,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2004

• Inventing (and Un-inventing) West Mt. Airy, Mt. Airy Times Express, January 7, 2004

• "SEPTA’s bumpy deficit-plagued road" The Philadelphia Inquirer, May  20, 2004

• “Put SEPTA On The Rails With Slots,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2004

• "Rebuilding our Neighborhoods Block by Block", unpublished, August 2004

•  “Understanding the Johnson Street Dispute” Mt. Airy Times Express and Germantown Courier, September 29, 2004. Also published as “On Johnson Street, The Issue is Not Race,” Philadelphia Public Record, October 7,2004.

• “SEPTA is Beyond Band-Aid Fixes,” Mt. Airy Times-Express and Germantown Courier, October 20, 2004 and Chestnut Hill Local, October 21, 2004

• “We Can’t Afford to Flunk Transit” The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 16, 2004

• Renewing Coalitions: Labor Community Groups and the PTC, Philadelphia Public Record, May  2005

• “Political Posters, Incumbent Protection, and the Colors of Fall,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 19, 2005

• “The Kind of WMAN We Need” Mt. Airy Times Express, June, 2005

• “Trolleys, the Public Good, and Political Will, Chestnut Hill Local, June 16, 2005

• "Neighborhood Networks: Our Aims and Goals, Philadelphia Public Record, August 18, 2005 

• "Cherelle Parker is the Right Choice", Chestnut Hill Local, September 8, 2005

• "Take That Mr. Steffens: We Are Content No More  Daily News, November 14, 2005

• “The Case for Inclusionary Zoning,” Daily News, June 19, 2006

• “A Half-Step Forward On Inclusionary Housing,” Daily News, November, 2006 with Daniel Hunter

• The Budget for the Bus...Goes Round and Round, Round and Round. City Paper, May 30, 2007

• Save the SEPTA Transfers!, Daily News, July 17, 2007