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Speaking of gambling, law enforcement officials investigating illegal gambling raided more than a dozen businesses, mostly in South Philly.
The federal court of appeals in Philadelphia today blocked Delaware's attempt to implement sports betting next month. Looks like people wanting to bet sports in the area will have to stick to bookies Bodog flying to Vegas.
Michael Nutter announced a $3.84 billion budget for the city yesterday—and quickly came under fire for the steep property and sales tax hikes he proposed earlier in the week to raise some of the money for it. It seems that the mayor is becoming less and less popular these days.
Police were investigating two homicides and at least two shootings in the city over the weekend.
The Fumo trial is already getting a little nasty, with the defense essentially accusing the prosecution of racism in its jury selection. (We also enjoy the headline of that article, because we misread it as "Fumo-in-law.")
Democrats now outnumber Republicans in Pennsylvania by almost 1.2 million. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has received threats at several of its Pennsylvania offices and is asking labor unions to help provide volunteer security at 27 of the offices between now and Election Day, including six in Philadelphia.
"Police are looking for the driver of a gray Ford pickup who may have been involved in or witnessed the wounding of a Glendora man in a road-rage shooting Sunday night near the Walt Whitman Bridge."
This weekend a number of political superstars will be coming to the region, including Sarah Palin, who'll be dropping the first puck at the Flyers' regular-season opener at the Wachovia Center.
Michael announced that there has already been improvement in DHS following the Danieal Kelly tragedy. Well that's reassuring—we can't imagine that DHS could have gotten much worse.
At a defendant's sentencing hearing yesterday in a robbery and attempted rape case, the woman who had been the victim of the attack began hyperventilating in court and then collapsed in an anteroom. She was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and later released. The defendant was given the maximum sentence of 20 to 40 years in state prison.
John Jackey Worman, the Delaware County man whose child porn case we've been posting about here for some time, was convicted in federal court of dozens of child-pornography charges yesterday. Worman could spend the rest of his life in jail. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
In January, former President Bill Clinton will replace former President George H.W. Bush as chairman of the National Constitution Center. Bush suggested Clinton as his replacement and helped recruit him. The center's 43-member board meets twice annually to set policy for the center, so maybe we'll see old Slick Willy around town more often.
A 22-year-old South Philadelphia man was fatally shot Saturday in the city's Point Breeze section, and on the same day, a 29-year-old man was shot to death near his home in the city's Logan section.
A couple of unrelated incidents involving firearms took place early yesterday morning in Philadelphia. In the first incident, a retired Philly cop working as a pizza delivery man was accosted by three teenagers, one of whom pointed a gun at him while the other two went through his pockets. But the retired cop was able to reach into his pocket and pull out a semiautomatic Glock, which he had a permit to carry. He shot the boy with the gun once in the chest, killing him. The other two would-be robbers ran off. The deliveryman will most likely not be charged in the incident. A few hours later, officers approaching a group of robbery suspects thought they saw a gun in one of the suspects' waistbands and told him to freeze. He reached for the weapon and one of the officers fired his gun into the sidewalk, causing bullet fragments to strike the 17-year-old suspect. He's in stable condition, and a 14-year-old was also apprehended, but the third suspect ran off.
So much for being the good government guy who won't piss away our tax dollars on b.s. Michael is paying his own trip to the Democratic National Convention with his campaign funds, but the five staffers who are going with him are being paid for with city dollars. We're with the on this one—Michael's screwing the pooch here.
Police are still searching for the rapist or rapists who have been terrorizing the Frankford section of Philadelphia. A man was arrested Saturday in a kidnapping and sex assault, but police don't believe he's connected to the other incidents.
The took a look at Michael's watershed moments and took the position that maybe our mayor isn't as calm, cool, and collected as he's often portrayed.
FUD is no match for Michael. (No, not that fud, that FUD.)
The Daily News examines how an alleged DUI killer's outrageous MySpace page is not exactly helping his case. (What a freaking idiot.)
Despite a threat from Senator Fumo that their tax breaks would be removed if they didn't relocate from the waterfront, the Philadelphia casinos are determined to stay. And in fact the legislature has no legal grounds to force them out. The question now is whether anyone will even follow through on Fumo's threat, as he'll be gone by this fall.
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This Phillyist happened to walk by a group of pro-casino activists on the way to work this morning, at the corner of 12th and Arch. There's one photo below, plus two more after the jump.
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Who is causing all the fires in Coatesville? Theories abound, but answers are still elusive.
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The opinions on the Phillyist staff vary widely and change frequently when it comes to the plan(s) to put casinos in Philadelphia. But this Phillyist thinks, perhaps, that the Casino Free Philadelphia folks might want to come up with a better slogan. Sure, it's catchy and all... but in Spanish, it translates literally to "almost no"—not exactly the right message to convey. (Anyone ever hear the one about the Chevy Nova?) That being said, we think this was a pretty clever PR move.
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Word of the day: Mockstars. A fascinating look at the latest trend in tribute bands, that of recreating the experience along with the music.
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Kensington loses a beloved resident, and friends want to know why.
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The Inquirer this morning ran an interesting piece about the latest controversy swirling around the proposed SugarHouse casino site on the Delaware River, on the border of Northern Liberties and Fishtown. It seems that the foundations of Batchelor's Hall, a building of some historical import (see Chapter 69 here), have been excavated beneath the casino's billboard on Delaware Avenue near Frankford. Needless to say, historians and SugarHouse are at-odds about what this discovery means. More on this story as it develops.
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We'll miss Fumo because of the great copy; we didn't know there’d be math involved.
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1. New Casino Controversies for the holidays!
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Philly.com is breaking news that, following a meeting between representatives of Foxwoods and Mayor Nutter and Governor Rendell, Foxwoods is considering looking at a different location to set up shop if and when they finally get around to building their casino in Philadelphia. It has to be emphasized that Foxwoods is considering an alternative location to their proposed site in South Philadelphia/Pennsport. This is by no means a definite, but it is the first sign of budging that either of the casino developers, Foxwoods and SugarHouse, have given in this whole big casino mess.
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