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Back from last week's detour on the sunshine train is your regularly scheduled hot jerk injection.

In yet another stunning display of blatant disregard for the economic plight of his constituents, the City of Philadelphia, and the state of Pennsylvania, Republican Minority Whip Frank Rizzo, Jr. (son of the ex-mayor depicted in the statue at right) is the lone City Council member intending to accept his cost of living raise this year. Other members—wiser, more informed, more considerate members—are planning to give the money back to the general fund, or to various city charities. They're primarily doing so in order to show solidarity with union workers who are shit out of luck being asked to decline pay raises for 4 years.

Hey there, Philadelphia. How 'bout those Phillies? Did any of you see the slaughter that was the 22-1 game last night over the Reds? Hot dawg. And we're playing them tonight and Wednesday, too!

• Fourteen members of a Chester gang were arrested in an early-morning raid yesterday.
• The budget approved by the City Council, which would increase sales tax (temporarily, so they say) and make major changes to the city's pension fund payments, may face stiff opposition when it goes to the state legislature for approval.
• A squeaky clean looking math teacher at North Penn High School is being charged with having sex with a student and sending sexually explicit messages to that student and another over the Internet.

Freshness: we has it, in the form of neighborhood food co-ops.

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In a move that stumps us over here at Phillyist, since the veto period is over and the bill is officially enforceable, Mayor Nutter is scheduled to sign the ban today. This strikes us as somewhat unnecessary and, if the Mayor reads the papers, a quiet statement of independence. We reported on Tuesday that, in lieu of legislation making its way through the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the city stands to lose millions in funding for enacting its own ban. Here's to hoping someone in City Hall realizes this, and then does something about it. The people may have already had their last chance to chime in on the budget, but a city under budget pressure like ours should be careful about maintaining its eligibility for state-sponsored infrastrcture funding.

Doesn't get dirtier than the Schuylkill, boat or no.

Well, the video does make a valid point.

Hey, it's time for turkey, not beef!

The recent election made us wonder what we could do for our country, and PW's Holiday Guide has some suggestions on what you can do for your city, in the form of nine charities to consider helping out this holiday season, including the Philadelphia Student Union.

As mentioned earlier, Mayor Nutter is speaking today to the City of Philadelphia regarding some major budget cuts that will be taking place. According to the text in the draft of his speech as posted on 6ABC.com, some of the major changes will include: reducing police department overtime and leaving 200 vacant positions unfilled; reducing fire department overtime and cutting 5 engine companies and 2 ladder companies; closing 11 libraries and eliminating Sunday hours at three regional libraries; keeping all recreation centers open but in the summer closing 62 of 73 outdoor pools and 6 of 8 indoor pools and in the winter closing three ice rinks unless private funding can be secured; spending less money on street resurfacing and ending residential street cleaning, snow removal on tertiary streets, and bulk and tire collections; laying off more than 220 city employees and eliminating nearly 600 unfilled positions, more than 1,660 seasonal part-time jobs and about 570 contractual, non-city jobs.