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COMMENTARY
#1
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Crime in
Philly … more of the same. The November issue of the
Philadelphia Magazine devotes its cover to “Murder: one
terrifying night on the streets and why everything we are
doing to stop the shooting won’t work.” The story sets
forth that during any spree of criminal activity on the
streets of Philly, very few new faces show up, and the
career criminals are arrested over and over and over again.
Then they are returned to the streets over and over and over
again. No wonder north Philadelphia, west
Philadelphia, and south Philadelphia and Mount Airy and
Germantown are just as bad as they have been for the last 25
or 30 years.
COMMENTARY
#2
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Crime in
Philly … more of the same. The November issue of the
Philadelphia Magazine, as I mentioned in the previous
comment, devotes its cover to “Murder: one terrifying night
on the streets and why everything we are doing to stop the
shooting won’t work.” Crime is out of control in
Philadelphia and the inner city. The Philadelphia Magazine
story suggests that the victims and the shooters are getting
younger and younger. You’re talking about 13, 14, and 15
years of age. And so much of it is just neighborhood
stuff. The same people are selling drugs, doing robberies,
all of it. So, the simple solution is to remove forever
those thugs, those criminals, those social misfits to
another place on the planet.
COMMENTARY
#3
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Ed "the bear"
Bradley from Cheney to CBS. Ed Bradley, another
Philadelphian who made good. He was born and reared in West
Philadelphia. He died on November the 9th from
Leukemia in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He was 65
years of age. Bradley was in the Cheney State Teachers
College class of 1964 which included his best friend, Jim
Vance, Washington DC popular news anchor. Now my wife
Dolores was a senior during their freshman year, and she got
to know them fairly well. Bradley and Vance entered college
late because of military service immediately after high
school.
COMMENTARY #4
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Ed Bradley’s
nickname was "the bear" at Cheney State Teachers College
outside of Philadelphia near Westchester, PA. Bradley and
his college buddies taught grade school or industrial arts
after getting their degrees. In the case of Bradley and Jim
Vance, who was his buddy and as I mentioned in the previous
broadcast, an anchor on the local station in Washington DC,
they set their sites on the media field. Ed started with
CBS radio and covered the Vietnam War. He then covered
Jimmy Carter during his race for the White House. When
Carter won, Bradley went on to the White House also. Before
long, he was tapped for the 60 Minutes post and the rest is
history. His friend Jim Vance is still pulling in the
ratings at the local NBC affiliate in Washington, DC.
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