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IT'S CALLED "pay as you throw."
The Nutter administration is researching whether to charge residents for trash collection, according to city officials.
Sports
The 76ers last night reached a verbal agreement to sign Los Angeles Clippers unrestricted free agent Elton Brand. A deal should be announced today.
Daily News columnist Jenice Armstrong, who first blogged for philly.com on Election Night 2000, is back on the beat in a big way with Hey Jen, her new philly.com weblog. Jenice muses on pop culture, relationships, language, politics, even the decline and fall of flip-fops- and kicks off with a day-by-day behind-the-scenes series on the making of this year's Sexy Singles section.
- BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - You know you're at the Television Critics Association's summer meetings when one moment you're talking about what Barack Obama's nomination is going to mean to TV One - gavel-to-gavel coverage in Denver, for starters - and the next you're listening to Jane Seymour, ageless and demure in a blue dress, talking about "Dear Prudence," a Hallmark Channel movie the network describes as a "whodunit with a heart."
- A MOTIVATIONAL speaker who visited his high school got through to my 15-year-old nephew the other day - at least we're hoping it did - and what he said was: The choices you make today can affect the rest of your life.
- RUN-DMC's Darryl McDaniels and actor/singer Tyrese Gibson will be part of Saturday and Sunday's Charlie Mack Party 4 Peace Celebrity Weekend, organizers have announced.
- Here are some gadgets for more fun in the sunSummertime and the living is easy. Or so goes the old song. These days, many of us turn to high-tech devices to make the prophecy come true. And wow, does the Gizmo guy have a bunch to share today.
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American girl, nostalgic version
- "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is a throwback to a bygone era; you can tell because its heroine wants to work for a newspaper.
- GREENSGROW Farm is a little bit country and a lot urban. Situated on the reclaimed - and cleaned up - site of a former steel-galvanizing factory in Kensington, the nonprofit organic farm grows a wide variety of produce, including heirloom lettuces, peppers and tomatoes, and also acts as a crop clearinghouse for small farmers from South Jersey to Lancaster County.
- MARY LOU RETTON took the world by storm when she won the all-around gold medal in women's gymnastics at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Today she is a busy working mother of four. She sat down with Kimberly Garrison to discuss balancing work, family, and fitness.
Blogs
- The Next Mayor: Tribune scores state budget for the money coming to Philly
- PhillyGossip: Alyssa Milano to greet her customers at Thursday's Phillies game
- PhillyClout: Nutter Names New Commission On Human Relations
- High Cheese: Sabathia, Bullpen, Myers and more
- Attytood: New summer '08 hot spot: The North Pole
- Eagletarian: Two Weeks to Lehigh
- Citizen Hunter: The Fisher House difference
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