Stu Bykofsky

Stu Bykofsky has been a columnist with the Philadelphia Daily News since 1987. Prior to the column, his assignments included theater critic, TV critic, copy editor, general assignment features reporter. A native of New York City, Stu has won numerous public service and journalism awards. His professional affiliations include the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and Philadelphia's Pen and Pencil Club. He supports civil-rights, human-rights and animal causes. He is married.

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Stu Bykofsky: How can we, why must we, deal with savages among us?

Posted 2:17am

LAST WEEKEND I was at a conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and on Sunday afternoon one of them asked me about the "riot that closed South Street." I knew nothing about it, but later learned that whatever it was - maybe a flash mob - it wasn't a riot. There were "minor injuries" and 15 arrests. Just Saturday night fun?

Stu Bykofsky: On Comedy Night, candidates want in on the jokes

Posted 07/12/2010

YOU KNOW YOU'RE running a successful enterprise when customers beat down your doors. It was like that with the iPhone 4, and it's also like that with Stu Bykofsky Candidates Comedy Night, a fund-raiser for Variety, the Children's Charity. (Except my comedy show actually works.)

Stu Bykofsky: Under Sue Cosby, PSPCA stabilizing after year of turmoil - 07/08/2010: HAVING survived a death match with the president of her board and a disease outbreak that closed her kennel, Sue Cosby has begun her second year as chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania SPCA with high hopes - and with just tolerable "save" rates in the city-financed shelter operated by the Animal Care and Control Team.
Stu Bykofsky: Obama: Legalize them, don't naturalize them - 07/06/2010: HALLELUJAH! In his immigration speech last week, President Obama apparently switched his Mexican sombrero for an Arizonan Stetson. And Mayor Nutter was in the room to hear it. Listen to a key passage:
Stu Bykofsky: Why is it that . . .? Imponderables to ponder - 07/02/2010: A list of life's imponderables and ideas for suggested improvements. WHY IS IT that the government didn't take a permanent share of rescued investment firms, banks and auto companies in exchange for the taxpayer bailout?
Stu Bykofsky: Nutter's 'sanctuary' puts us all at risk - 07/01/2010: MAYOR NUTTER IS prepared to decree that Philadelphia is to be a de facto "sanctuary" city, meaning that U.S. law will be ignored here, at least the part applying to those who are here illegally. Doing so will put Philadelphians at risk.
Stu Bykofsky: Snoops can listen in on your cell phone chats - 06/28/2010: Every single day Every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I'll be watching you - The Police, "Every Breath
Stu Bykofsky: A lesson to his country from 'American' Shahzad - 06/24/2010: THANK YOU, Faisal Shahzad, for your guilty plea - all boast, no contrition. You saved your fellow Americans the expense of a trial.
Stu Bykofsky: Nutter weak candidate for Philly, but who is stronger? - 06/21/2010: The conventional political wisdom is that Nutter's wounded and vulnerable. But you can't beat somebody with nobody
Stu Bykofsky: Parking Authority scoots into parking-zone confusion - 06/17/2010: THE TWO YEARS Rick Slowicki has been buzzing around town on his little Vespa 150 scooter were mostly a pleasure. The pain came only when he had to park.
Stu Bykofsky: For a 20th straight year, we will prove that politics is a joke - 06/14/2010: "I'VE BEEN WAITING since February for this phone call," said Rick Hellberg. He was talking about my call inviting him to participate in the annual Stu Bykofsky Candidates Comedy Night, marking its 20th anniversary this year.
Bicyclists using Byko to raise funds - 06/10/2010: MY GOOD NAME is being used to further a bad cause. Or is my bad name being used to further a good cause?