Yo, Philly in the News

• The Inquirer takes a look at the political landscape on the morning of Super Tuesday. If you're from New Jersey or Delaware, remember to vote! As long as you've done your research, and you care at all. If neither of those things are true then please, don't vote.
• A federal lawsuit filed in December says that President Bush's housing czar, Alphonso Jackson, pressured the Philadelphia Housing Authority to transfer land worth $2 million to Kenny Gamble, a music producer turned developer, and retaliated when the agency would not knuckle under.
• "A breakthrough yesterday in the standoff between City Council and building-trades unions over minority participation will allow construction to proceed on the $700 million expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center." Mayor Nutter announced the formation of a 15-member commission to study the issue of minority inclusion and develop more concrete plans by September.
• "A caucus of Democratic ward leaders yesterday endorsed state Sen. Vince Fumo for re-election, but with enough abstentions and absentees to suggest that his grip on the party organization may be slipping."
• At a news conference in City Hall yesterday, Governor Rendell announced that he would ask lawmakers to put 200 more police officers on the street statewide - half of them in Philadelphia - by doubling the funding for patrol grants to $20 million a year.
• "Yesterday, authorities charged a West Chester woman with bilking her boss of $925,000 over nine years using four different methods of fraud."

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