SEPTA, once under a mountain of debt and under the FBI microscope, is now considered one of the country's best transit agencies, recently winning the industry's "Oscar."
Fresh off his guilty plea to the feds, John McDaniel, former campaign manager to Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, has agreed to a settlement with the city Ethics Board that was announced Monday for making contributions higher than the legal limit and mischaraterizing items on campaign-finance reports.
And there's no reason to panic if you haven't received your AVI assessment yet.