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- You know that citywide wireless internet service we've been hearing so much about? In theory, you only need to hang on to 2007 to get it. Earthlink has pulled out a ten year service contract to provide the service and charge $9 per month to providers who would then resell the service to the public. City officials estimate the final price to Philly residents would be less than $20 per month, and service would be available next year. Unfortunately, the service isn't really aimed at internet users who value speed - the Earthlink wireless service would be "at least 1 megabit per second, slower than the speeds typically offered by telephone and cable companies."
- Despite the recent balmy weather, this time of year is traditionally the time when Phillyist craves soup. Beware: if you shop at Giant supermarket and dig that canned Progresso soup, there's a recall afoot. A rusty sewing needle was found in a can of minestrone out in Wind Gap, PA - so return that soup to the store before you become a cautionary tale.
- Some of us are old enough to remember the "worker bee, use your stinger" campaign last decade that encouraged corporate whistleblowing, but the latest law enforcement campaign is a little less business casual than that. Police and community activists had a rally yesterday to encourage people who have seen a crime to report it. The campaign is called "Step Up and Speak Up". Organizers hope to counteract the message of the "stop snitching" tshirts so popular with the juvenile delinquent crowd these days. Phillyist hopes this isn't the big plan to decrease gun violence in Philadelphia.
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There was an article (I believe at Slate, but maybe in the Washington Post, I would look for it, but I'd rather not) about how the "Stop Snitching" shirts aren't really about reporting crime. Instead its really tied into our justice system which "rewards" people pulled in for minor offenses by making them witnesses of the state. It's a troubling system -- get picked up for loitering turn in the neighborhood drug king pin -- that is designed to lower the amount of old-fashioned police work and investigation and having a police presence on the street. The police don't have to do any work if you'll turn in your neighbors to "clear your record." This is the _real_ target of the Stop Snitching t-shirts. Not the lady who calls 311 or 911 to report a crime.
311?
Where do you think you are NEW YORK CITY?