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As none other than the New York Times recently reported, Philadelphia's newspaper situation is experiencing a bit of an upswing, or at least a comfortable plateau, compared to the state of things during the vomit-inducing dissipation of Knight-Ridder's ability to hang on to the Inquirer and the Daily News, not to mention the 30 other papers it was forced to sell off last year. Publisher Brian Tierney, whose Philadelphia Media Holdings, LLC acquired the Philly...

  • About 12:45 AM yesterday morning, cops pulled over a car in the 6000 block of Master Street in West Philadelphia because the vehicle had a light out. The driver - Kevin Fletcher, 44 - was incoherent, officers smelled alcohol, and there appeared to be narcotics in the car. When they tried to get Fletcher out of the vehicle, he drove off, leading police on a chase through Delaware County and into Chester County. The chase finally ended on Baltimore Pike in Marlborough Township when the police made use of a spiked device to flatten the tires on the car. Fletcher was charged with aggravated assault on an officer, driving under the influence, and related offenses.
  • This headline comes in from Philly.com: "Tierney assumes publisher's job."

    - The city is preparing to enact video surveillance citywide. We hope they don't think this means we're going to start making a regular habit out of wearing makeup.

  • Hey, want an office building? Eleven are on sale in Center City right now, including the entire city block made up of 10 Penn Center, 11 Penn Center and 1800/1880 John F. Kennedy Blvd. With this many buildings up for sale, it could be a record year in Philly for real estate transactions. Follow the link for an economic explanation for why this is happening; we tried reading it ourselves, but it made our head hurt. The point is, this is apparently a good thing; it means the real estate market is booming.
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