• The Phlash Center City trolley will have special hours this Friday and Saturday to accommodate Independence Day celebrations. The Phlash will operate until 7PM on Friday and until 11PM on Saturday. (Via RJ)
• The Inquirer tells the story of how a plan to convert an empty convent in Germantown into apartments for formerly homeless men went south, in order to underscore the problems Mayor Nutter is likely to face with his initiative to fight homelessness.
• The sad end of the Mum Puppettheatre.
• A discussion of the recent changes in the history being taught at the Liberty Bell pavilion.
• A look at how the three new City Council members have been making out.
• Local law enforcement officials are poised to implement mental health courts, a rapidly expanding intervention approach designed to place emphasis on treatment and supervision instead of prison for mentally ill offenders.
• Several University of Pennsylvania doctors and bioethicists argued for the need for more standard risk disclosures in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Their argument is based on cases like one last year, in which patients contracted HIV from the donated organs of a 38-year-old man who died in a car crash.
• The Schuylkill Expressway paving project will close the westbound right lane overnight between the Belmont Avenue and Blue Route interchanges today through Wednesday.

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