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Posted 11/23/2009
Only weeks after City Council blasted the Zoning Board of Adjustment for failing to produce enough of its members to hold proper hearings, the same problems have cropped up, and Mayor Nutter appears poised to fix them.
 
Officials say TMI all clear
 
2.1 million cribs being recalled
 
Philly link to alleged terror plot
Posted 11/22/2009
For decades, Pennsylvania government has had patronage hires who don't do a stitch of work for their government salaries. In grand jury testimony, Sue Cornell provides a first-hand account of how some in Harrisburg operate.
 
Officials say TMI all clear
 
2.1 million cribs being recalled
 
Philly link to alleged terror plot
Posted 11/22/2009
When I lived in Old City, I would occasionally awake to the sound of workmen hollering into bullhorns that they were towing cars on my block.
Philadelphia police officers have begun ticketing bicyclists in Center City to make bicyclists more aware of their fellow travelers on the streets, and of the laws they're supposed to follow.
A less-motorized metropolis was the subject of City Council bills yesterday - one to allow human-powered taxis, another seeking strict regulation of the city's estimated 300,000 bicyclists that cycling advocates immediately denounced.
The Dad Vail Regatta, one of Philadelphia's most storied events, is moving to the New Jersey hometown of Bruce Springsteen and Queen Latifah. Why? Money. Rumson has it. Philly doesn't.
In an unusual action, Municipal Court Judge Thomas Nocella has agreed to pay part of a $16,440 civil penalty that effectively ends a 21/2-year lawsuit against him by the Philadelphia Board of Ethics.
A longtime aide to disgraced former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo was sentenced yesterday to four years of probation for stealing thousands of dollars from the state by inflating her boss' meal expenses.
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