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The SugarHouse casino is trying to smooth its way into Fishtown by throwing cash around - for instance, buying new jerseys for some Little League baseball players, and donating $10,000 to a struggling Catholic school. Some people are pleased, and now support the casino; others are pissed.
Four Democratic candidates for president visited our city yesterday, courting the National Education Association, who are holding their national representative assembly here at the moment, and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, who were holding a presidential forum in North Philly.
If you can't wait to see the result of the legal proceedings against Senator Vince Fumo... well, get used to disappointment, because the trial isn't likely to start until early 2008, and it'll probably go on three to four months.
It's a "disaster!" The government shut-down in our neighboring state of New Jersey - which was brought on by the fact that lawmakers couldn't agree on a new budget - has already led to the halt of the New Jersey Lottery, and of various road construction projects and state agencies, but now it's causing the unprecedented and the unthinkable: it's shutting down the casinos in Atlantic City! That's right, the casinos need to be overlooked by state-employed casino inspectors, and those guys aren't working right now, so no blackjack, roulette, slot machines, or horse race betting! Argh! Ironically, the closing of the casinos means a huge loss of funds that could be used to balance the state budget. D'oh.
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Republican PA state legislators intend to file suit against Governor Ed Rendell later this week, attempting to limit Big Ed's line item veto power. Their beef? Governor Rendell dared to remove language from the state budget denying the use public money for birth control, family planning counseling or other services at clinics that also provide abortions or abortion counseling through the Department of Public Welfare.
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