• Beginning at 10AM today at City Hall, Philadelphia School District officials will present their proposed $2.28 billion budget to City Council. You can already see the budget and prepared testimony on the district's website. Members of the public will offer testimony on the budget tomorrow.
• The Inquirer investigates the lasting effects of the shooting death of 33-year-old Moroccan-born Ouadii Souliman. He was gunned down at the door Al Aqsa Mosque on the border between Northern Liberties and Fishtown two Sundays ago as he awaited the dawn call to prayer; the apparent motive was robbery.
• Some recent local political news includes the story of how State Rep. Thomas W. Blackwell's write-in campaign for reelection spectacularly failed; the first election lost by John Street; and finally, is Nutter Philly's Obama, or is Obama the country's Nutter?
• If you are at all squeamish about reading about things being stuck into people's eyes, do not read this story about researchers at University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia trying to cure blindness.
• Click here to get more information on traffic restrictions that will be caused this week by overhead bridge and sign inspections.

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