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Guv calls for smart changes in Harrisburg
Gov. Rendell called a news conference earlier this week to vow that he would spend the remainder of his term pushing for big reforms. Rendell wants major changes in redistricting, campaign finance and judicial elections.
OVERSEEING public dollars isn't easy. But when it comes to tracking $787 billion in stimulus funding being spent in 50 states, oversight can be extremely messy.
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"It's Our Money" (www.ourmoneyphilly.com) is a joint project of the Daily News and WHYY, funded by the William Penn Foundation, that looks at how city government spends our tax dollars. In order to demystify the process for citizens, we examined the 2004 contract details and consulted experts - like former city labor chief Thomas Paine Cronin - to help understand some of the key areas of pay and benefits. (PDF Format)

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I FOUND myself smiling when I heard the usual suspects criticizing the Conference of Catholic Bishops for poking its nose into the health-care debate.
STOP, STOP, stop! Enough already with the continuous declarations that children will only achieve if their educator and they share the same ethnicity.
YIPES, BIKES! Up our backsides. To the left and to the right they swagger, sharing the road but not the cost or safety rules. Drivers pay, all the time: The sale taxes of 8 percent for purchase or lease, tank fill-ups at 31 cents a gallon, $36 for registration and driver's licenses. On top of that, putting a big dent in our pockets are the high fees for the right to park on city streets at meters, PPA area permits or $12 to $30 at private lots. It really adds up.
THE MEN and women of the Philadelphia Police Department are being poisoned, just like the men and women who served in Vietnam. In Vietnam, it was Agent Orange. Here, they are being killed by politicians who refuse to make L&I do its job.
DOESN'T EVERYONE take a civil-service test to get hired by the city for the Fire Department? Why do they need a consent decree?
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