#PhillyFive What We're Reading: Sept. 29, 2014
Five stories we're reading today.
1. PlanPhilly maps out where the candidates (or potential candidates) in the 2015 Philadelphia mayoral race live.
2. Philadelphia is preparing to host several major events in the next few years, including the World Meeting of Families (which Pope Francis is expected to attend), and the city may let some retiring police officers extend their DROP payments in an effort to keep "institutional knowledge" around for the high-profile events, Newsworks reports.
3. "Watching Comcast's ballistic response to opponents of its $45 billion takeover bid was a bit like watching a campaign debate go off the rails." More from the New York Times' David Carr on Comcast's most recent Federal Communications Commission filing defending its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable.
4. In the years after the Great Depression, nearly every Philadelphian lived just a short trip away from a roller-skating rink. Hidden City Philadelphia rounds up the types of rinks around the city in roller-skating's heyday.
5. After video surfaced of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée in the elevator of an Atlantic City hotel, the NFL has come under widespread criticism for its handling of that incident and other domestic-abuse cases. As football season picks up, the Atlantic Wire looks at whether the NFL's troubles have had an impact on sports bars. (Here in Philly, Philebrity has launched a list of bars that don't show football games.)