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<title><![CDATA[Charles F. McElwee - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/44421.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles F. McElwee]]></description><category domain="44421">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Gay Talese on a Writer&rsquo;s Life]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/15/gay_talese_on_a_writers_life_154037.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles F. McElwee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An unrelenting winter and circumstance dictated a most uncustomary form of interview with Gay Talese: a phone call. Another ice storm in New York kept Talese in his Upper East Side townhouse, where he first occupied a bachelor pad as a New York Times reporter at 26 and then bought the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy &ndash; A Remembrance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/11/21/john_f_kennedy__a_remembrance_150089.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles F. McElwee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sixty autumns have passed since the assassination of John F. Kennedy that Friday, Nov. 22, a day that traumatized a generation of children and revealed the impermanence of their innocence. For many, it was their first rendezvous with death. It endured as a vivid remembrance even as other...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Working-Class Voters Will Shape PA's Political Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/26/working-class_voters_will_shape_pas_political_future.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles F. McElwee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the past 30 years, eastern Pennsylvania'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s demographic and economic landscape changed with a rapidity reminiscent of the Industrial Age, when booming extractive industries drew European immigrants to the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s cities and towns.
Take the example of Hazleton, my family'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Philadelphia Reflects Big Cities' Public-Safety Challenges]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/07/01/philadelphia_reflects_big_cities_public-safety_challenges_146018.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles F. McElwee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In mid-1980s Philadelphia, the erection of One Liberty Place, which broke a long-standing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'gentleman'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agreement'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' by surpassing City Hall'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s height, ushered in widespread downtown development. At the time, though, Center City'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rising new skyscrapers opened in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Safety, Quality of Life Are Top Concerns in N.Y. Mayoral Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/16/safety_quality_of_life_are_top_concerns_in_ny_mayoral_race_145934.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles F. McElwee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1990, writing in Esquire, Pete Hamill observed how the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'steady grinding force of menace is a texture of daily life'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in New York City. His assessment was shared by uncountable New Yorkers. That year, Gotham'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s homicide rate peaked; this was a city ravaged by widespread...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Referendum on Progressivism in PA's Major Cities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/05/05/a_referendum_on_progressivism_in_pas_major_cities_145703.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles F. McElwee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Urban progressivism is on the ballot in Pennsylvania'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s biggest cities, where the May 18 primary will measure Democratic voters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' satisfaction with ideological governance.
Seeking a third term as mayor, Pittsburgh'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Bill Peduto could lose reelection for not going far enough...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Heinz's Legacy &hellip; and Pennsylvania's Political Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/03/30/john_heinzs_legacy__and_pennsylvanias_political_future_145493.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles F. McElwee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago, Republican Sen. John Heinz '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' then Pennsylvania'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most popular public figure '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' died in a midair collision over suburban Philadelphia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Lower Merion Township. The April 4, 1991, crash that aviation officials deemed a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'senseless accident'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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