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Asshole of the Week

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You know how Bill and Ted finish their history project and make the future better? Sure, there's all that traveling back in time to grab So-crates, and the part where Joan of Arc leads an aerobics class, and George Carlin in those weird sunglasses, but there's one more part us eighties kids remember: be excellent to each other. (And keep a close eye on Napoleon.)

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By Erica M in on August 28, 2009 4:00 PM

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  • Archaeologists in Fishtown have uncovered 25,000 artifacts from a property once owned by butcher Godfrey Remer. In pits that were used as dumpsters, various items were found including: a painted peralware bowl from England, a chamber pot, a piece of a flute-like recorder.

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    By Andrew Johnston in on June 16, 2009 10:30 AM

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  • Governor Corzine outlined a $2 billion mass-transit plan that will connect much of South Jersey with Philadelphia. The plan will include service from Glassboro, Pitman, Mantua, Wenonah, Woodbury, Deptford, West Deptford, Westville, Bellmawr, Brooklawn and Gloucester City.

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    By Andrew Johnston in on May 13, 2009 9:30 AM

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  • Philadelphia Police Officers Robert McDonnell and Richard Cujdik were removed from street duty amid FBI and local investigations in to police misconduct. Richard Cujdik, brother of Jeffrey Cujdik, took part in a September 11, 2007, raid of a bodega owned by Jose Duran. McDonnell did not take part in the raid, but is linked to allegedly bunk search warrants.

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    By Andrew Johnston in on April 15, 2009 9:15 AM

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  • In response to a news story in the Daily News yesterday, the state Department of Education stated that "there is no law that prohibits school police officers in Pennsylvania from carrying a firearm." The school-police officers' union has been attempting to arm its officers but the Philadelphia School District said it was opposed.

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    By Andrew Johnston in on March 10, 2009 9:15 AM

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  • Philadelphia Newspapers LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday. The parent company of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com is mired in $390 million in debt.

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    By Andrew Johnston in on February 23, 2009 9:15 AM

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  • Officer John Powlowski's picture is back on a table next to a municipal court bench. Judge Craig Washington was replaced by William A. Meehan. Meehan started the day's agenda with a moment of silence for Powlowski. According to president judge, Marsha Neifield, Washington was following rules that are in place to remove the appearance of bias.

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    By Andrew Johnston in on February 19, 2009 9:45 AM

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  • A series of human errors caused a 40-minute failure in the city’s police radio system July 22, according to a report submitted yesterday to City Council by the Nutter administration. The report also stated that the problem-plagued Motorola system would cost $40 million to upgrade—nearly as much as it cost to install in 2002. Last Summer, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey called the problem "unacceptable."

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    By Andrew Johnston in on December 11, 2008 9:09 AM

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    By melissa shae in on November 26, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • A debate between congressional candidates filmed Friday in Allentown by a local TV station was censored when it aired Monday to avoid causing financial harm. Democratic congressional candidate Sam Bennett stated that two major banks had failed when in fact they hadn't. WFMZ-TV muted the sound and blurred Bennett's lips as she made the erroneous remarks.

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    By Jim Genzano in on October 16, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • The Philadelphia School District is suffering from a high number of teacher vacancies, which experts say points to systemic problems in the hiring process.

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    By Jim Genzano in on October 14, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • Lane closures and traffic restrictions.

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    By Jim Genzano in on September 22, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • 43-year-old Tarriq Ali, sentenced to a life term in Delaware, was being transported from California back to Delaware by a private prisoner transportation service when he escaped at Philadelphia International Airport. He is still at large.

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    By Jim Genzano in on September 16, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • Philadelphia School District counselor Veno Leigertwood, 31, was shot once in the neck shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Saturday in front of his Yeadon, Delaware County home. He died of the injury. His wife, Raven, and 7-month-old daughter, Nichole, were sleeping inside at the time. He was about to get his M.B.A. and had just received a promotion at his job. Leigertwood had no known enemies, and only his cell phone was taken.

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    By Jim Genzano in on September 15, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • Pennsylvania's smoking ban goes into effect today.

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    By Jim Genzano in on September 11, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • Lawrence Scott Ward, 65, a former marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, is already serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for trafficking in child porn, but yesterday new child porn charges were lodged against him.

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    By Jim Genzano in on August 22, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • The rebuilding of the Market-Frankford El, a project that is now $300 million over budget and two years behind schedule, may finally be entering its last stage.

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    By Jim Genzano in on August 20, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • The Daily News has a happy follow-up to its story about people getting their grills stolen in Tacony—a number of good Samaritans stepped forward to donate new grills.

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    By Jim Genzano in on August 14, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • More than 200 Philadelphia School District staffers, all academic coaches, were laid off this week in a move intended to decentralize the district and move resources into classrooms.

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    By Jim Genzano in on July 2, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • The Inquirer examines what it meant (for the players and their families) for a team from Camden's Cramer Hill neighborhood to play T-ball on the White House lawn yesterday.

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    By Jim Genzano in on July 1, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • "Jury selection is expected to begin today in the 19-year-old murder of a North Philadelphia black man in what has been labeled a 'racial killing.'"

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    By Jim Genzano in on May 19, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • The Inquirer investigates the lasting effects of the shooting death of 33-year-old Moroccan-born Ouadii Souliman. He was gunned down at the door Al Aqsa Mosque on the border between Northern Liberties and Fishtown two Sundays ago as he awaited the dawn call to prayer; the apparent motive was robbery.

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    By Jim Genzano in on April 28, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced yesterday that it had finally raised the last chunk of money needed to keep Thomas Eakins' iconic painting The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia.

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    By Jim Genzano in on April 24, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • Chelsea Clinton was at Penn yesterday, stumping for her Mom, and said we should expect to see her and her family a lot in the near future. Which sounds like a threat to us. Beware, Philadelphians! They're coming! Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies! (BTW, in a related story, voter interest is surging in Pennsylvania suburbs.)

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    By Jim Genzano in on March 6, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • It's not clear how much it will cost, but the Nutter administration is determined to get a 311 system installed in Philadelphia by the end of the year. If you're in an emergency, you'd still dial 911, but for any other city service, you could call 311. Officials also plan to implement PhillyStat, "a program that will track data from city departments and from 3-1-1 calls to assess how agencies are performing."

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    By Jim Genzano in on February 27, 2008 9:00 AM

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    Nutter? I Don't Even Know 'er!: Michael Gets Rebuffed

  • Michael blasted Safe and Sound, the organization that Mayor Street had reallocated $75 million to in the twilight of his administration. Michael said Safe and Sound shouldn't have assumed they would get the money, because it wasn't designated to them in the city's budget, and you know what happens when you "assume." ZING! But he did pledge to work with Safe and Sound leadership to find more financial support for the organization.

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    By Ross Currie in on February 22, 2008 2:00 PM

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  • A 17-year-old male knocked on the door of the security booth inside the lobby of the Queen Lane Apartments late Sunday. When the cop inside opened it, the young man fired one shot with an assault rifle, striking the officer in the left hip underneath his bullet-proof vest. Luckily the officer was able to immediately slam shut the door of the bullet-proof booth before the gunman fired twice more. The youth then ran off and Zahir Boddy-Johnson was arrested an hour later for the crime, and will be charged as an adult with attempted murder, aggravated assault, robbery, firearms violations and related offenses. The officer is in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery.

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    By Jim Genzano in on February 19, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • Saint Joe's will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5PM today to officially open its new Hawks' Landing parking and retail facility at 54th and City Avenue. Hawks' Landing is a $19 million project that features a five-story, 460-space garage, a new and expanded University Bookstore, and a Cosi restaurant underneath.

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    By Jim Genzano in on February 13, 2008 9:00 AM

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    Nutter? I Don't Even Know 'er!: Michael Learns It's Not Easy

    Last Friday & the weekend: Michael's search for a new CEO of the Philadelphia School District got down to two contenders—apparently—after Temple College of Education dean Kent McGuire withdrew his name from consideration for the position.

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    By Ross Currie in on February 1, 2008 1:00 PM

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