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Dave Ralis.com
The Web site of Dave Ralis, a print and online journalist near Philadelphia. It includes his daily news rant, Home Turf sports blog, archives and more.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Kermit was right: It's not easy being Green


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Diamond quits, Santorum shifts gears


The Daily Rant | Archives


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 11/13/2005 - 11/19/2005


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Robbing the poor to pay for the rich


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: It must be ratings week


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Paper tiger in your tank and Congress


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Some interesting stuff from New Jersey


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Throw 'em out anyway


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Bob Casey Jr. draws first blood


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Merry Christmas, Mom. Jesus Christ!


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: About The Daily Rant


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 11/20/2005 - 11/26/2005


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Singing Comcast's praises


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Bitter cold Black (hearted) Friday


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Visions of bargains dancing in their heads


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Waiting for some satisfaction


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Less is more


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Blankets and shopping carts


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Shopping - a patriotic duty?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Buyers brave bitter cold


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Shop till you drop


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Thanks for Giving us the land, suckers


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Here's a shock: PennDOT pays too much for crappy roads


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Tax money for political campaigns?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: An evolved prayer


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 11/27/2005 - 12/03/2005


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Proof I'm getting dumber with age


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. lawmakers keep raises - after voting them down


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Running with scissors


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Exelon, PSEG merger death knoll for competition


Pave the grass | Ethically challenged
Outted New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey should be forced out of office.

Dave Ralis.com | Who I am


Dave Ralis.com | Home Turf


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Dave Ralis.com | Pave the grass
Pave the grass was a topical online column that was published 2002-2004 on phillyBurbs.com.

Dave Ralis.com | News Clips
News articles written by Dave Ralis for the Bucks County Courier Times, Times Leader and Press-Enterprise

Bucks County Courier Times | Anonymous political Web site opens
Think of it as if Matt Drudge, the guru of instantaneous Washington, D.C., Web journalism, moved to Pennsylvania.

Dave Ralis.com | Contact me
This Web site includes a topical daily rant as well as a newspaper news story, sports story and column archive from Dave Ralis, a print and online journalist living near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dave Ralis.com | Pennsylvania gambles on slots
Multiple sources for Pennsylvania slots gambling coverage.

Dave Ralis.com | Pennsylvania pay raise
Multiple sources for Pennsylvania pay raise coverage.

Dave Ralis.com | Pennsylvania newspapers
Coverage from multiple Pennsylvania newspapers.

Dave Ralis.com | Pennsylvania political bloggers
Coverage from multiple Pennsylvania newspapers.

Dave Ralis.com | Pennsylvania columnists
Coverage from multiple Pennsylvania columnists.

Dave Ralis.com | Pennsylvania news
Multiple sources for Pennsylvania news coverage.

Dave Ralis.com | New Jersey newspapers
Coverage from multiple New Jersey newspapers.

Dave Ralis.com | New Jersey news
Multiple sources for New Jersey news coverage.

Dave Ralis.com | Good government
Multiple sources of articles about good government, transparency, ethics and more.

Dave Ralis.com | Good reporting
Coverage from 60 minutes, Frontline, SmokingGun.com, The New York Times Magazine and more.

Dave Ralis.com | Journalism
Multiple sources of articles about Journalism, reporting, editing and more.

Dave Ralis.com | White House news
Multiple sources for White House news coverage.

Dave Ralis.com | Pentagon news
Multiple sources for Pentagon news coverage.

Dave Ralis.com | GAO news
Multiple sources for GAO news coverage.

Dave Ralis.com | Russia and Kremlin news
Multiple sources for White House news coverage.

Dave Ralis.com | Philly Sports
Multiple sources for Philadelphia sports coverage, including NB10dotcom, KYWdotcom, Google and more.

Dave Ralis.com | Flyers
Multiple sources for Flyers coverage, including the team's Web site, phillyBurbsdotcom, phillydotcom, google and more.

Dave Ralis.com | Eagles
Multiple sources for Eagles coverage, including the team's Web site, phillyBurbsdotcom, phillydotcom, google and more.

Dave Ralis.com | Sixers
Multiple sources for Sixers coverage, including the team's Web site, phillyBurbsdotcom, phillydotcom, google and more.

Dave Ralis.com | Phillies
Multiple sources for Phillies coverage, including the team's Web site, phillyBurbsdotcom, phillydotcom, google and more.

Dave Ralis.com | For men
Multiple sources of articles for men about health, fitness, fashion and more.

Dave Ralis.com | Fitness


Dave Ralis.com | Quotes and Words of the Day
Quotes and Words of the Day

Dave Ralis.com | Newsfeed


Dave Ralis.com | Weather
Multiple sources for Levittown, Bucks County and Pennsylvania, including AccuWeather, the National Weather Service, the Weather Channel and more.

Eagles at Baileys Jan. 19, 2003


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Perzel not only stumbling block to reform


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Perzel's cup runneth over


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Perzel's 'reform' effort a gift to lobbyists


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Isn't it ironic


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Perzel pile on


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Smoke signals


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Smoking mad


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pot-bellied Rendell to PAC kettle: You're (in the) black


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: The game's afoot, and boy does it smell funky


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Crapping out?


Pave the grass | Two-arm bandits
Even the most fervent supporter of gambling expansion in Pennsylvania should still be seething about the way state lawmakers passed the bill making slot machines legal.

Pave the grass | House wins, we lose
Slots to be angry about in Legislature's weekend gambling approval.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Broken pipeline? It's Comcastic


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pay to play lesson of the day


Pave the grass | Don't write me in
If elected, I will not serve - your interests.

Bucks County Courier Times | Surfing for information on Pa governor's race
A wealth of information can be found online.

Bucks County Courier Times | Forensic tests in dancer's death complete
Police forensic tests on evidence in the murder case of exotic dancer Rachel Siani are complete, but it could be months before a New Jersey grand jury weighs the charges police filed against a Buckingham sign painter, a prosecutor said this week.

Times Leader | Givers with county ties favor Makowski-Pizano
An Eagles fan's playoff primer

Times Leader | County debt shuffle puzzles experts
Luzerne County officials say they are saving money, but a couple of financial specialists see a drawback looming.

Times Leader | Crossin snubs state ethics law
Democratic county commissioner acted inappropriately when he voted in January to pay $1,500 to his own insurance company.

Times Leader | Controller paid up front for trip
Luzerne County Controller Tom Pizano and his deputy, Tom Dugan, won't have to be reimbursed after their 656-mile round trip to a statewide convention in Erie.

Times Leader | Ballot box revolution goes forth
Capitalists of Luzerne County unite. There are no Communists here.

Times Leader | DA declines to enter printer-pricing quarrel
The top prosecutor in Luzerne County won't investigate a politically connected printer who might have overcharged Prothonotary Carolee Medico.

Times Leader | Pricey printer not her type, Medico claims
Prothonatory says a printer, who is connected politically, is charging Luzerne County more than double than is necessary for services.

Times Leader | Luzerne County pays first, OKs later
Some people call the system of bill-paying backwards, but county officials say it's efficient, safe and courteous to vendors.

Times Leader | County to furnish agenda to group
Taxpayers organization battled commissioners for a year in effort to receive a copy of meeting agenda.

Press-Enterprise | Sabotage suspected
Officials: PP&L probe lacks proof generator knob was tampered with

Press-Enterprise | Kreisher rigged election auction
Assistant District Attorney admits being plant; prosecutor says it's legal

Pave the grass | Temple should zap its football team
The embarrassment this team brings alumni and fellow students every time it takes the field is as tangible as any electric shock. We're a national joke, an unfunny punch-drunk line when ESPN bothers to reports our game scores, which are usually lopsided blowouts in favor of our opponents.

Pave the grass | Excising Junior
There's more to life than a knife in the head.

Pave the grass | Puck U.
Financial cheap shot the real lesson of NHL lockout.

Pave the grass | Stupidity reigns
Dumbfounded by motorcycle mayhem and tax breaks.

Pave the grass | Hope springs eternal
The Eagles hype has already begun.

Pave the grass | Told you so
Fire Larry Bowa? You heard it here first.

Pave the grass | Surrender (your youth)
TV ad songs sell it back to you.

Pave the grass | Icarus falls in Philly
This time it was the Flyers whose wings melted in the sun.

Pave the grass | Network
I always said, the day I could bring the Internet with me into the bathroom would probably be the last day I ever bought a newspaper.

Pave the grass | Horse sense
Four cheers for Smarty Jones. One for each hoof.

Pave the grass | Hopeless
Should Larry Bowa get the boot?

Pave the grass | Detritus
Staring up at me was a beautiful, big black and white picture of my late mother. She's at least 10 years younger than I am now, sitting in a field looking over her shoulder at the camera, wildflowers just touching her shoulder length hair.

Pave the grass | Hair today, gone tomorrow?
Hockey playoff beards have become as much a rite of spring as paying your taxes or buds on the trees.

Pave the grass | News cooks with gas
Movies, dead dinosaurs and strange bed fellows.

Pave the grass | Intelligence test
Every day Americans in flag-draped body bags are being brought home from Iraq in large transports planes that land in Dover.

Pave the grass | So long, old friend
A vet of the Vet bids farewell.

Pave the grass | Open mouth, insert fist
Dissing the honorable dishonors hockey.

Pave the grass | Let 'em fight
A former NHL bully longs to bring back glory days.

Pave the grass | Winners and losers
Know when to hold 'em, fold 'em and laugh.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. Green Party candidate thrown off ballot


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: PaCleanSweep falls to dust


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Guilty Philly councilman can stay in office


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Neither Rendell nor Swann deserves Pa. governorship


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots of gambling money still buying Pa. influence


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: What did $125 million in Pa. lobbying buy last year?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. takes a baby step on lobbyist reform


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Crimes like these


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Legislative pay raise pissed off Pa.


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Rethinking Jubelirer


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Jubelirer just as crooked as the rest


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Too little, but never too late


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Jamming it down our throats


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Don't bet on it


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Aloha Habay


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Habay case shines light on legislative arrogance


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa.'s slot machines and pay raises tit for tat?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. groups opposing slots see die as cast


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: April fools


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: State's Supremes shouldn't rule on pay raise suits


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. gavel pounders turn money grubbers


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: No gifts? Not so fast Eddie


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Who will the feds snare?


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Valerie Plame, Lynn Swann and me


Pave the grass | Enter the Matrix
Computers never forget your misdeeds and politicians will be able to dig up dirt on you with a new system.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Kissing butt with Ed Rendell


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Lies, more lies and statistics


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: N.J. bans WAMs, Pa. keeps 'em


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: This broken highway brought to you by...


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Perzel introduces lobbyist disclosure bill, but public still can't see it


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. lawmakers still failing disclosure test


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Top 10 ways to improve Pa. today


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: DeNaples' contributions topped $1 million


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Brightbill's motive questionable in slots money give-back


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 04/02/2006 - 04/08/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Comcast execs make hay, fight choice


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Time to re-regulate Cable TV and Telcos


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Druce is loose again


Pave the grass | Druce is loose
Although former state Rep. Tom Druce hasn't finished his mandatory minimum sentence, he's back on the road.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: The fool who follows


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Justice DeLayed along with reform


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Zero-sum game: One going in, one getting out


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Bush eavesdropping violates us all


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Censure Bush? Try impeachment


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: DeLay-ing tactics don't work for bribery


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Have you seen these women?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Did Gov. Ed Rendell violate Pa.'s ethics law?


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. revenue head accepted $4,000 in gifts and meals


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Did Perzel help GEO reclaim Delco prison contract?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Rendell signs tax bill to justify slot machines


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. House passes property tax 'relief' bill


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Will Pa. lawmakers revisit property tax reform soon?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Taxed reform, patience and credibility in Pa.


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: The price of vice


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Would it be too much trouble


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 04/30/2006 - 05/06/2006


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. legislative leaders well-traveled, connected


Pave the grass | A bad bet
If he who is without sin gets to cast the first stone, I'll be in the back of the line with a pebble.

Pave the grass | Fast Eddie wants my wallet
Gov. Rendell's tax relief plan gives homeowners a break at the expense of renters.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: No news is good news this week


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: White collar crime day in Philly?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Who is Louis DeNaples?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Fired CIA agent did the right thing


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Death be not proud, but should be


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Dr. Death dying?


Pave the grass | Disservice to the service and us
We cheer the made-for-TV production called shock and awe, forgetting the all-too-human consequence.

Pave the grass | Stop or I'll sue
Here's why the record industry is now more powerful than police.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Smoking gun: Did McCallum sabotage the tobacco RICO case?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Who's gouging whom now?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: New Jersey settles for less


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Today is white collar crime day in Philly!


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Happy May Day


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Federal lawsuit filed over new voting machines


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: New voting machines, more choices mean problems ahead


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Mixed bag


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Paper or plastic?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Perfect replacements for Habay


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: A stickler for details


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pennsylvania: Corrupt and malcontented


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: A failed experiment in better Democracy


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Bill would drug test Pa. political candidates


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Good, bad and ugly of Pa. primary '06


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. primary voters send a message


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Louis, Louis


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. victors get plenty of spoils - at taxpayer expense


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: What else would $500 million buy?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Snippets from the House floor


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. slots opponent: Take your time


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Election may decide Pa.'s right to be stupid


Pave the grass | Legislating stupidity
Pa. leaders deserve an award for trying to prove Darwin right.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Perzel: Pay raise 'indefensible,' but Pa. pays $1M to defend it


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: My dream Q&A with John Perzel


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Common Cause's pay raise suit tossed by federal judge


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. pay raise suit a 'slam dunk,' Common Cause official says


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Federal judge may toss Pa. pay raise lawsuit


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Want to see federal court papers? Be prepared to pay


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots of forces at play in Pa.


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots of interesting names among Pa. parlor shareholders


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Any port in a political storm?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots of secrets kept by Pa. regulators


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots to be desired in PGC disclosure


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Lobbyist to Pa. gambling board: Nevermind


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. gaming board overrides intent of slots law


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Lobbyist with slots ties keeps giving


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Fumo held up Pa. budget, but for a good cause


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Lobbyist disclosure pits Perzel against Jubelirer


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. house passes watered down lobbyist disclosure bill


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Congressional, Pa. legislative Web sites play hide-and-seek


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Lame duck Pa. leaders have slots of ideas


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots of anger over gambling reform


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Parallels between Fumo and Jefferson cases?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Gambling with Pa.'s future


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: New Jersey's anti-smoking hypocrisy knows no bounds


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: DeNaples: A shy, charitable billionaire felon


Pave the grass | Grandma
Her stroke-affected lip is curled up to the left with paralysis, creating an Elvis-like sneer.

Pave the grass | More leftovers
Dead have more say in Pennsylvania than the living.

Pave the grass | Leftovers
Reading the news wires and my e-mail gives me an eerie deja vu feeling these days.

Pave the grass | Soul survivor
Are you ready for some indoor football?

Pave the grass | Here's to football
Bless my Soul, Philly has a new team to root for.

Pave the grass | Broken wings, broken dreams
I've waited a lifetime to see a sea of green, black and white jerseys storm Broad Street. To see an Eagles head coach climb a podium and hoist the Lombardi trophy high. To declare that, finally, we are the champions.

Pave the grass | Monster column
I'm no mechanic, but I watch some on TV.

Pave the grass | Pa. bets the ranch
Six months into its fiscal year, Pennsylvania is still without a budget. The annual spending plan is being held hostage by lawmakers who insist they can't make ends meet without either raising income taxes by $1 BILLION - or by legalizing slot machines at 12 racetracks and opening two betting parlors.

Pave the grass | The sky is falling
Bring in the snow, reign in the hype.

Pave the grass | Friendless in Pa.
Suggestions for a new state slogan.

Pave the grass | We're No. 1
The Eagles, Flyers and Sixers are at the top. It can't last.

Pave the grass | 'Playmakers' the thing
But whose conscience is it catching?

Pave the grass | Rip 'em a new one
An inexpensive DVD ripper can save you money, not time.

Pave the grass | Bad kitties
Roaming lions, mauling tigers and killer bears, oh my.

Pave the grass | Fumbled summer
Eagles dismantled defense, rather than fix offense.

Pave the grass | Fair weather
No one had to tell me a hurricane was on its way. All I had to do was look at a calendar.

Pave the grass | Second-rate sports TV
Shoot the messengers, please.

Pave the grass | Wrong message sent
Sign my online petition or else...

Pave the grass | Does not compute
Why did Pa. lawmakers kill 'Tax-Free PC' week?

Pave the grass | Labor Day rant
An open letter from your company's top management.

Pave the grass | Leave me alone
How to stop junk mail, telemarketers and spam.

Pave the grass | Philly sports heroes
Help a poor hoagie- and pretzel-eater pick the first inductees for the city's sports hall of fame.

Pave the grass | Fleeting summer
Lazy, hazy dog days of summer now go by in dog years.

Pave the grass | Public spanking
How to avoid the worst doctors and lawyers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Pave the grass | Click it or ticket?
Pennsylvania drivers need tougher laws, not slogans.

Pave the grass | Rain pain
Rainy weekends and sunny Mondays get me down.

Pave the grass | Web of deceit
Lying, tall tales and big bears, oh my.

Pave the grass | More duct tales
I was only kidding back on Feb. 16 when I wrote that duct tape was the perfect tool for babysitting. Some Bucks County parents actually did it.

Pave the grass | Will compute for food
Computer + Problems = Home cooking

Pave the grass | Do or die
An entire season of pain, of joy, of change hinges on tonight's Flyers game.

Pave the grass | Overtime, over tired
A three-period hockey game goes into five overtimes. Looks like I'm going to have another hockey hangover.

Pave the grass | Make Hay, Not War
Crazy sports fans and media hype. Gotta love it!

Pave the grass | Lessons from the war
10 things I learned from watching Iraq War II on TV.

Pave the grass | Women in combat
Women are fighting, dying and being captured in this war. Denying them frontline experience and the possibility of promotion is wrong.

Pave the grass | Where did the Flyers' passion go?
This was my brother's birthday gift to me - two tickets to the first Flyers game of my adult life - and I had been waiting three months to see them play live.

Pave the grass | Tug at my heart
Ya gotta believe the 58-year-old world champ will pull through.

Pave the grass | I rant, I rave, Iraq
The U.S. is torturing and killing terrorists. Who's next?

Pave the grass | Philly fan's lament
Why doesn't Schmidty love back the city that loves him?

Pave the grass | Bogarting the furniture
Like vampires want blood, dead celebrities now want your money.

Pave the grass | Ducting the issues
Who's running our homeland defense these days, Red Green?

Pave the grass | Death to Xupiter
My Web browser has been hijacked and the terrorists are coders in Hungary. This means war.

Pave the grass | Discontented with winter
The thought of at least six more weeks of snow and cold is enough to make me hide under the covers like a hibernating bear.

Pave the grass | Eagles redux
The Bird-baiting and arm-chair quarterbacking is about to commence. It's as much a tradition around here as jumping on the bandwagon when a pro sports team is on a roll.

Pave the grass | Bucks should put tax records on the Web
While Philadelphians can research their property tax appeals online for free, Bucks County residents either have to pay for access or schlep to the courthouse twice.

Pave the grass | Bird brain
An Eagles fan's playoff primer

Pave the grass | Facing the future, the mirror and my clone
I've never considered myself a handsome man. In fact, quite the opposite thought occurs to me most mornings while looking in the mirror.

Pave the grass | Barney-gate - Film at 11 or whenever you want
See Barney, President George W. Bush's dog spaz on streaming video at taxpayer expense.

Pave the grass | Random thoughts from a random mind
Pave the grass was a topical online column that was published 2002-2004 on phillyBurbs.com.

Pave the grass | Peculiarly Philly
Pave the grass was a topical online column that was published 2002-2004 on phillyBurbs.com.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: A police state run by Keystone Cops


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Text message tragedy preventable


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: NOLA no more


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 12/04/2005 - 12/10/2005


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Snow business


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Don Ho injected with stem cells


Dave Ralis.com | CSS Test
The Web site of Dave Ralis, a print and online journalist near Philadelphia. It includes his daily news rant, Home Turf sports blog, archives and more.

DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Last victim of the Browser Wars


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Surprise! Corrupt candidate an FBI informant


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 12/11/2005 - 12/17/2005


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Sunshine or lights, camera, inaction


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 12/18/2005 - 12/24/2005


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Merry Ralismas


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Crazy week, nutty people


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Doh-ver, Pa., board loses intelligence test


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Praying for an 'intelligent' decision


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 12/25/2005 - 12/31/2005


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Blight lights, big city


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: I stumped God


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 01/08/2006 - 01/14/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: How Machiavellian are you?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: What I would ask Alito


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Lame duck soup tastes terrible


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 01/15/2006 - 01/21/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Miles and miles of red tape


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 01/22/2006 - 01/28/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Everybody has a price


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pretty fly for a 'rich white guy'


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 01/29/2006 - 02/04/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Dark day for Democracy


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: I can't believe it...


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 02/05/2006 - 02/11/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 02/19/2006 - 02/25/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Cheney's got a gun


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 02/26/2006 - 03/04/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slimey, reptillian insurance practices


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 03/05/2006 - 03/11/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Situation Normal All Fouled Up


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Casey: They're all crooks


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 03/12/2006 - 03/18/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Beat the press (to a pulp)


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots of work still to be done


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 03/19/2006 - 03/25/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Eerie and stupid times in Pa.


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Philly saves money by cutting city-owned cars


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Where do you stand politically?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: AccuWeather: Big one could hit Northeast


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: The Buck stops nowhere


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 03/26/2006 - 04/01/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. fences solen property


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 04/09/2006 - 04/15/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Are we learning from China?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 04/16/2006 - 04/22/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Unintelligent design


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Yet another reason why Knight Ridder sucked


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 04/23/2006 - 04/29/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: The War on Drugs is over: Drugs won


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. studies wrongful convictions, punishes more bad lawyers


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Today's forecast: Partly sunny with chance of an eclipse


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Gas pains: Rendell's call for oil profit tax a bit hard to stomach


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 05/07/2006 - 05/13/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Is New Jersey going to pot?


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DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Newsflash: Casey has an interest-bearing checking account


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 05/14/2006 - 05/20/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Another one bites the dust


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: It's all how you spin it


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 05/21/2006 - 05/27/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. judges want double standard for themselves


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Beaver County may hamper online access to public tax records


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: An interesting point of view


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: True reform starts with Sunshine


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Rally for Pa. legislative reform forgot its roots


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: We still don't know


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 05/28/2006 - 06/03/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Perzel takes trips, pays staffers with campaign cash


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: D'Elia indictment raises Pa. slots question again


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Feds OK Exelon-PSEG merger, N.J. advocate against it


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Ain't no sunshine in Pennsylvania


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Rendell shouldn't sign Molly Maguires resolution


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: A few things to think about on Memorial Day


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 06/04/2006 - 06/10/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Private Pa. prison, guards reach agreement


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 06/11/2006 - 06/17/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. property tax 'relief' bill needs fixing


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pay cut for N.J. lawmakers makes sense


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: They should have known better


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 06/18/2006 - 06/24/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Swann and slots


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Comcast disservice caught on video


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: New Jersey may switch to online reporting


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Want to know what your Pa. legislator spends money on?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: From balladeer to balloteer


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 06/25/2006 - 07/01/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: The minimum they could do


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Scrambled brains or broken promise


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Weird, wet and wild day in Pa.


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Carl Singley for Philly Mayor? I hope not


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Is John Perzel sorry?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 07/02/2006 - 07/08/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Sing along with New Jersey


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Shoofly does bother me


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Is N.J. budget impasse a sign of Pa.'s future?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Expect fireworks in New Jersey tomorrow


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 07/09/2006 - 07/15/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Common Cause appeals pay raise lawsuit


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Report: Disaster in Philly would cause chaos


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Violating MySpace and my rights


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Federal flip-flops order of the day


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 07/16/2006 - 07/22/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Welcome back to the 18th century


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Diamond under pressure by petition requirement


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: TWA 800 - 10 years later


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 07/23/2006 - 07/29/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Dead men do tell tales


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: The city that kills you back


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. Gaming Board issues IOUs


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: John Perzel's new image problems


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 07/30/2006 - 08/05/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: The truth is now malleable


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Habay heads to the slammer


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Size does matter


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots of interesting stuff in Sunday papers


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 08/06/2006 - 08/12/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Death by metrosexual


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: An imperial governorship?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots, beer battles in Pa. demand attention


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 08/13/2006 - 08/19/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. regulators have slots of explaining to do


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Law and disorder day in the Delaware Valley


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Orb it or pay $200


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 08/20/2006 - 08/26/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Courts keep barriers for Pa. election competitors


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Ruffing it


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 08/27/2006 - 09/02/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Did Pa. ethics directors shame office?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Christianity is Comcastic too


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Why is Pa. still protecting bad doctors?


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: N.J. monkeywrenches Exelon-PSEG merger


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: New era in whistleblowing


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Phone games


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Top cop: Pa.'s loyalty oath unconstitutional


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 09/03/2006 - 09/09/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pop goes the quiz


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Bush admits to torture, Army prohibits it


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Bad move by the ACLU


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. pols selling us out


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Labor pains


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 09/10/2006 - 09/16/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. judges give themselves a blank check


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Twisted logic, no justice in Pa. pay raise ruling


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Most thieving Pa. lawmakers won't repay early raise


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Jubelirer's got (golf) balls, if not brains


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: My pet scapegoat


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 09/17/2006 - 09/23/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Slots of states near Pa. addicted to gambling


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: AP: Pa. should expect table games too


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. judges to get COLAs and maybe more


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: What Pa. is saying about the pay raise ruling


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. judges lack merit, play politics, candidate says


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Judging the judges


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Pa. chief justice's defense of pay jacking lacking


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: 09/24/2006 - 09/30/2006


DaveRalis.com | The Daily Rant: Intelligence gap