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Michael P. Columns: January 2010
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Monday, January 25, 2010. What It Is, And What It Is Not. This column originally appeared on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. Listen up, Marines. Why not stop off at the Chester County Historical Society for a while to see how Chester County residents lived in the ages before the Internet took over? Along the way, visitors will get a view of...
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Michael P. Columns: December 2009
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Monday, December 21, 2009. Snow Bound, Mysteriously. This column originally appeared on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009. You remember Feb. 11, 1983, don't you? That was the Friday when 22 inches of snow fell on. It was my first snow fall as a staff reporter for the Daily Local, and one I have never forgotten. And now I sit at my desk loo...
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Michael P. Columns: Nothing But BLue Skies Do I See
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Monday, September 27, 2010. Nothing But BLue Skies Do I See. This column originally appeared on Sept. 26, 2010. But I thought about my own hero recently while mingling with the cars parked on Level Seven of the Chester County Justice Center Parking Garage and Smoking Lounge. Allow me to explain. Steel blue. Tiffany blue. In...There...
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Michael P. Columns: Making The Grocery List
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Sunday, August 22, 2010. Making The Grocery List. This column originally appeared on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. Second, what strikes me about the way the world has changed since the days before the 1990s is not what’s gone, but what has arrived. And by that, I mean the things you find on grocery store shelves. The members of the Class ...
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Michael P. Columns: October 2010
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Sunday, October 10, 2010. Someone's In the Kitchen With Schmitty. This column originally appeared on Sept 10, 2010. And five National League pennants did not prepare me for having to stand in a kitchen in Pottstown while a baseball game I had no rooting interest in was being played. Jamie would watch the Phillies play on television...
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Michael P. Columns: April 2010
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Sunday, April 25, 2010. Parking in a Parallel Universe. This column originally appeared on Sunday, April 25, 2010. Parking is a problem in. All right, all right, I hear you. You scoff, make that "pffft" sound with your mouth, and say to yourself aloud, "Tell me something I don't know! They'd be towed to the. It struck me that we in.
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Michael P. Columns: Enter, Laughing
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Monday, September 13, 2010. This column originally appeared on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. I am paraphrasing here for propriety’s sake, but this is a dressing down that Manager Jimmy Dugan gives a poor-performing player on his Rockford Peaches squad in the film, “A League of Their Own.”). 8220;Are you crying? And do you know why? There...
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Michael P. Columns: February 2010
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Monday, February 22, 2010. The Winter Market Cure For The Blues. This column originally appeared on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. As stated previously, there was still snow on the ground and the air was chilly, but the conversation and rhythms of the market could have taken place in July or August. Michael P. Rellahan. Push Lift. Sling.
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Michael P. Columns: Sarah and Eddie, Meet Carolyn
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Michael P. Columns. This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer. Sunday, August 15, 2010. Sarah and Eddie, Meet Carolyn. This column originally appeared on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. But don’t run that one by Carolyn. She is as equally knowledgeable about both, and can discourse conversantly about not only the value of women’s education in a Taliban-controlled nation but also what th...Carolyn has a...