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I Have a Baby and Ten Dollars...Now What?
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Charter schools in the city of Chester seem to be successful, but the school district is having a hard time coping with the drain they put on available resources. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission will hold the first of two scheduled public hearings today on the proposed closing of two troubled city charter schools.
Apparently our new soccer club's anthem is "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover." Well it's appropriate for today, anyway.
On February 11th, the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library on 7th between Market and Chestnut was flooded when a sprinkler pipe burst. It was the third flood of the library since last summer. Thankfully this one didn't damage any books, like the last two, but it will force the library to close for about a month.
WHYY's local radio segment "What are we thinking" has been picked up for national distribution to public radio stations. Philly's takin' over, yo.
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Kudos to NBC 10 for airing a live election special Monday night dealing with the issues and candidates in the Delaware Valley. Steve Highsmith handles things like this very well, but co-anchor Tim Lake seemed like a lightweight sitting next to him. Among the highlights: conservative talk show host Michael Smerconish and Democratic analyst Rob McCord provided a nice right/left debate on some issues and tactics. WCAU really did their election coverage - pre, during and post - right.
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As we hope you've already noticed by now, we've been down most of the day. Yes, little gremlins got in our machines and had a party in there. But we think our friendly gremlin exterminators tech guys have taken care of all that now...maybe. So you may cease pining desperately for our snarky comments on local affairs - wasting away in an agony of boredom before your computer terminals, desperate for entertainment - and instead commence drowning under a veritable flood of entertainment, because now we're going to dump all of today's posts on you at once! Woo hoo!
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First things first: Never let it be said that The Cranky Cocktail doesn't pay attention to his readers' comments. Please see, immediately to the right, a little something for the ladies. You're welcome, Babs.
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