Yo, Philly in the News

• In a rather surprising decision, the Board of License & Inspection Review voted unanimously yesterday to allow the Death of Venus mural to remain on the wall in the historic district, even without a permit.
• Although the Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, and Tacony-Palmyra Bridges are still officially "safe," they're also described as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Most will be undergoing repair or updating soon.
• The extremely congested Terminal F at the Philadelphia International Airport may be getting a $10 million upgrade that "would give the terminal larger gate areas, additional security checkpoints, more places to eat and drink, and a new baggage-claim area across the airport departures road." But there's no concrete design yet, no guarantee the changes will even solve the congestion problem, and no guarantee the funding will be there to pay for it. D'oh.
• The Moroccan wife of murdered Montgomery County millionaire Jereleigh Morton says she was close friends with Morton's other wife, Myra, and that Myra was happy.
• Rendell has a plan for improving Philadelphia public schools and it involves focusing on "early-childhood education, more rigorous curriculum for high schools, modernized classrooms, and continued test score improvement."
• Philly property owners, look out! Due to a mass reappraisal, your "property-tax bills are about to go up - in some cases by more than $1,000 annually."

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