Yo, Philly in the News

• The Philadelphia area is under an excessive heat watch through Sunday. In response, the Philadelphia Senior Center, in conjunction with Comcast-Spectacor, will give away 300 fans on a first-come, first-served basis this morning.
• The Daily News examines how an alleged DUI killer's outrageous MySpace page is not exactly helping his case. (What a freaking idiot.)
• The city's Board of Revision of Taxes meets at 10AM today to vote on the Actual Value Initiative, a plan which would establish market values as the assessment for every property in the city as a means of untangling the wide inequity between assessed values.
• Governor Rendell will unveil a $17 million plan to enhance the Benjamin Franklin Parkway today. It's expected to include better pedestrian access and new landscaping.
• Some more details on that deadly car crash on Roosevelt Boulevard that apparently resulted from a domestic dispute.
• "Pennsylvania's prosecutors, saying the public's privacy rights are threatened, will ask state lawmakers to close a legal loophole that allows open access to cell-phone and e-mail records."
• A week after 289 criminal charges were filed in a wide-ranging government corruption probe, a group of lawmakers yesterday called for a special legislative session devoted to ethics reform. Meanwhile, one of the folks charged, House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese, said yesterday that he was confident he would be vindicated.
• The Inquirer's coverage of yesterday's visit to the area by the Dalai Lama.
• The developers of the proposed Foxwoods riverfront casino in South Philly are tired of delays and went back to the state Supreme Court yesterday to get help starting the building process.

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