Yo, Philly in the News

• Lots of people are talking about Obama's speech in Philly yesterday, including the Daily News and the Inquirer (and us, of course). Hillary Clinton's response was sort of an "isn't that nice for him" kind of thing.
• Somehow the story of the twin gay porn star burglars keeps getting better. Now it's come out through court testimony that their mother served as a lookout during their rooftop break-ins.
• The Inquirer tells the story of a young Philadelphia man now on his third tour in Iraq.
• The current theory is that corrosion from road salt was a big factor in creating and widening the crack in a pillar that led to the shut-down of I-95 on Monday. The road is scheduled to reopen tonight, after crews finishing installing four support towers around that cracked pillar.
• Former San Francisco school superintendent Arlene Ackerman has already been selected in all but name to be the new chief executive officer of the school district, but today the Philadelphia School Reform Commission will hold a vote and make the hire official.
• The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance—"a coalition of the state's four Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurers as well as its hospitals, doctors and government health agencies"—has developed a website that gathers together in one place information on the quality of local hospitals, particularly in connection with heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, and hospital-associated infections. The website is www.phcqa.org.

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