Month: September 2014

Long before Ferguson, Missouri, burst into our lives with its ugly profile of a community out of sync with the cops who drove around in vehicles that looked like they…

Standing on the sidewalk near his brand new townhouse, in a brand new housing development, with bright red brick on one side of the street and an immaculately green park…

Since arriving in Camden as a newly trained family physician more than 15 years ago, I have watched the city’s school district slide into ever deeper dysfunction. Haphazard state oversight,…

In the summer of 2012, the year this city broke its own record for homicides, there were 21 people murdered here. This summer, there were six. Just as remarkably, with…

When Paymon Rouhanifard was appointed by the state a year ago to lead the Camden School District, one of the first questions asked was whether he planned to make Camden…