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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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica Yant Kinney: A cease-fire in the battle over bulges

By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist I'm all nerves getting ready to see Althea Zanecosky. My favorite summer skirt makes me look hippy, but skinny jeans feel like concrete in this heat. And what...

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Monica Yant Kinney: Bereaved pet owners are dogged by their vet

By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist Allergies limit the Kinneys to a blue betta named Swimmy, but I still devoured my former colleague Michael Schaffer's book , about the $50 billion pet...

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Monica Yant Kinney: Finally at St. Malachy's, a proper place to play

By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist When Anna Brown began teaching fifth grade at St. Malachy School in North Philadelphia 30 years ago, she learned that recess was a break in name only. "They...

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Monica 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...

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Monica Yant Kinney: Farewell to a healing artist

By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist When you write about people who have received a death sentence, eventually you must write that they have died. Even those who outdance their grim fate, as...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica Yant Kinney: N.J.'s ex-Gov. Everyman busy hawking his memoir

By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist I can't prove it, but I'm almost certain there has never been a political memoir before that contains both juvenile fart jokes and enlightened admissions about...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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Monica 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...

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