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• Mayor Nutter and his administration are taking additional steps to proivde transparency for his budget process. The transparency comes from complaints surrouding how he and his advisers handled the first $1 billion defecit. The administration is paying greater attention to how their work is perceived and is doing more to shape public opinion.



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Hey baby how are ya! Great! Hold on a sec, I gotta finish this call...[into cell:] Yeah, yeah, yeah, well you tell Chris Knight that if he wants Are You Smarter Than a Brady? on the air by Thanksgiving he's gotta learn to f*cking get along with Jim J. Bullock! Ok, ok, ok, ok, yeah, ok. Great! Call me when you get this message.

Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! Twelve months and ten epochal collapses later, we're nearing 2008 and a fresh calendar year for career (or structural) decimation. Let's count 'em down from 10: 10. Pete Doherty (again) 2007 hasn’t been...

...Mischief: Utah Jazz player Carlos Boozer (we're refraining from making a joke about his name) has filed a complaint against Prince, who is currently renting Boozer's Southern California home. The Artist, or somebody employed by him, made "unauthorized home improvements" in the form of purple stripes and other decorations (including Prince's symbol and "3121," the name of his new album.) Oh, Dave Chappelle, where are you and why aren't you making fun of this? (Via Fox Sports, with photos courtesy of What Would Tyler Durden Do?)

Exciting changes are coming to our fair town, friends, in the form of department stores, restaurants/concert halls, and maybe even a casino:

by Mildred Taylor won the Jason Award. The book is aimed at grades 4-6 (reading ages 9-12), and speaks to racism and moral fortitude. Nope, we wouldn't want kids to learn about how bad racism is, now would we? We hope the Ashton Marsh Elementary School in Absecon does not plan to pull the book.