Daniel Pearson

1 month ago | inquirer.com | Daniel Pearson

When I heard the news that 22 NFL owners voted to ban the Tush Push — with no late game two-vote conversion to meet the required 24 — I smiled. Not because I particularly love the play, although it has taken much of the anxiety away from short-yardage situations, but because of what the failed effort to banish it says about Philadelphia. For the first time in living memory, people are jealous of us. Specifically, they are jealous of the Eagles.

2 months ago | inquirer.com | Daniel Pearson

For the third year in a row, Philadelphians await the commonwealth’s budget with bated breath. Will SEPTA, our local transit agency, get the funding it desperately needs this time around? Or is it three strikes and we’re out half of our Regional Rail network? The first time Gov. Josh Shapiro proposed funding public transit in 2023, Harrisburg Republicans said that SEPTA needed to shape up, particularly around how it handled crime and unruly behavior on buses and trains, before asking for more money.

Jan 6, 2025 | inquirer.com | Daniel Pearson

As a cold front struck a large part of the country, bringing with it ice and snow, school leaders had a choice to make: would school be canceled or would the day be spent doing virtual learning? Philadelphia School Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. granted students a reprieve. Meanwhile, New York City’s Schools Chancellor David Brooks stuck to his belief that the end of snow days was “one of the good things to come out of COVID.”As a parent and snow day enthusiast, I strongly disagree.

Oct 30, 2024 | inquirer.com | Daniel Pearson

Americans are once again being subjected to a torrent of lies about our elections. These fabrications are more than just the desperate excuses of a potential loser and his enablers. Much like they were four years ago, they are a danger to the public servants and volunteers who help make our democracy function. In 2020, election workers across the country faced open intimidation as ballots were being tallied.

Dec 29, 2023 | inquirer.com | Daniel Pearson

Growing up in Frankford, it often felt like my family lived on the border of two entirely different cities: Philadelphia and Northeast Philadelphia. Philadelphia, of course, was the home of most of the region’s history and culture. The Northeast was not. Movies and TV shows were occasionally set in our fair city, but they rarely ventured up Roosevelt Boulevard. Most city residents didn’t, either, unless they had work or family in the area. Getting to the Northeast is a hike.