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Philadelphia Drivers: You can now be pulled over for using a handheld device in your car while driving. No more warnings and no other traffic offenses necessary. Do what's right—put it down!
Governor Ed Rendell has dropped his proposed tax on natural gas pulled from the Marcellus Shale. The delay comes with the hope that it can help the state's budget crisis.
Where will Vince Fumo serve his prison sentence? That's for the federal Bureau of Prisons to decide.
None of the citizens who brought suspected rapist Jose Carrasquillo to justice will be charged. Said Charles Ramsey, "I don't condone violence. Members of the community were very upset over this, and some may have used more force than a trained police officer."
Governor Corzine outlined a $2 billion mass-transit plan that will connect much of South Jersey with Philadelphia. The plan will include service from Glassboro, Pitman, Mantua, Wenonah, Woodbury, Deptford, West Deptford, Westville, Bellmawr, Brooklawn and Gloucester City.
The original investors in the Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com have offered up $50 million to its creditors to crawl out of bankruptcy. The offer was disclosed yesterday through a filing with U.S. Bankruptcy Court here in Philadelphia.
A number of interesting and generally solemn gatherings took place on Sunday, including a remembrance ceremony for the Jews who fought back against the Nazis, held at 16th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, near "the first public monument in North America dedicated to the victims of the Nazi Holocaust;" and a panel discussion about the effect of the media on right to die cases, with speakers Michael Schiavo and Julia Quinlan, as part of a conference at U Penn entitled "The Legacy of the Terri Schiavo Case: Why Is It So Hard to Die in America?"
Being a Philly blog, we're required to keep you up to date on the movements of Jon Bon Jovi, so here's your warning: the fellow and his band are playing a show at Citizens Bank Park on July 15. Tickets will go on sale April 29 at 10AM; expect a reminder in an upcoming Ticket Update post. (Via)
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With all that went down this week, we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs.
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With Election Tuesday finally upon us, Phillyist is relieved. Really relieved. We could not take one more Jon Corzine or Doug Forrester commercial. These aren't even Philly politicians accusing each other of running over their own mothers in the street -- can't they keep that crap in Jersey? Aren't we going to be barraged with screeching, tiresome politicals ads enough during the upcoming mid-term election scuffles?
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Of course, if that leads us to do our own research on candidates to wade through the bullshit, well...that's not such a bad thing.
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