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We know what PhillyClout readers want. And in addition to budget documents and breaking casino news, we know that you want to savor a little political gossip every now and then. So today we’re kicking off a new regular item on the blog. Called “PhillyClout Wishes To Inform You..." it will feature tidbits we’ve picked up in the dark corners of the City Hall. (If you’d like to help fuel this feature, you know where to find us. Go ahead. Be bad.)

We know what PhillyClout readers want. And in addition to budget documents and breaking casino news, we know that you want to savor a little political gossip every now and then.  So today we're kicking off a new regular item on the blog. Called "PhillyClout Wishes To Inform You..." it will feature tidbits we've picked up in the dark corners of the City Hall. (If you'd like to help fuel this feature, you know where to find us. Go ahead. Be bad.)

Up this week:

* A full-time City Council staffer who also moonlights as a freelance journalist has been denied a City Hall press parking pass. Patty-Pat Kozlowski, who works in Councilwoman Joan Krajewski's office, was granted a press identification card for her work at Spirit Community Newspapers – and also sometimes the Daily News. But no parking love from the press office, which says only full time breaking news reporters will get the coveted car placards.  Koslowski, who has used previous press parking passes for her car at City Hall, said she wanted the new placard for story assignments "out in the hood."

* Our story on Friday about City Council's budget missed one new contract.  Ed Schwartz of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values was recently paid $5,000 to write a report on opportunities in the recent federal stimulus program.  Schwartz said he can't comment on the report until it is released by Councilman Darrell Clarke, chairman of Council's committee on fiscal stability and intergovernmental cooperation.  Clarke did not respond to our request for a comment about the contract and report.

* Maybe paying taxes isn't that hard after all? A reliable source tells us that one of the three lawyers singled out by Mayor Nutter for owing business taxes this week was pelted with dollar bills on the way in to the Criminal Justice Center on Thursday. The lawyer didn't return our call.  Talk about a get rich quick scheme!