Dave Davies attends a community budget workshop. He says that the meetings are a great form of civic engagement, but that there's no way the city can focus-group its way out of this problem.
John Baer asks why the state Supreme Court hasn't gotten involved in the judcial mess in Luzerne County where judges are charge with jailing kids for minor infractions in exchange for kickbacks.
Ten new charter schools are planned for Philly by 2010.