#PhillyFive What We’re Reading: Oct. 14, 2014
What we're reading this morning.
1) Pennsylvania likely won't legalize ridesharing this year, reports Technical.ly Philly.
2) Filmmaker David Lynch draws inspiration from the horrors he witnessed during his days in Philadelphia. Phawker and Scrapple TV reflect on Lynch's recent visit to the city, when he expressed his sadness that the city is no longer a soot-stained miasma of crime and despair, and that his malevolent Rosebud has been rendered harmless and ordinary by gentrification.
3) ProPublica's risk analysis on young males killed by police certainly seems to support what has been an article of faith in the African American community for decades: Blacks are being killed at disturbing rates when set against the rest of the American population.
4) Ebola is threatening much of the world's chocolate supply, reports Politico.
5) Hopes rise once again for an abandoned Philadelphia rail line. For 92 years, freight trains rumbled beneath Broad Street via a 52-foot-wide tunnel. A federal study has revived interest, reports Ryan Briggs for NextCity. One plan calls for an underground bus-only highway that could zip past surface traffic.