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Larry Mendte filed a motion in federal court attacking his sentence. Mendte contends that he was promised to be charged with a misdemeanor even though he testified in open court that there were no promises associated with his guilty plea.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted to extend a slots license to the SugarHouse Casino. Now it's onto getting a loan for $150 million to get the Delaware River project rolling.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition of American artist Bruce Nauman has been selected to appear in the US Pavilion of the the 53rd Venice Biennale, "one of the most important art gatherings in the world."
The Convention Center expansion project was halted on Christmas Eve when the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia obtained an injunction ordering wrecking crews to stop work. The preservationists want to save the two small but historic Broad Street buildings that workers were set to dismantle. Today they'll travel to Harrisburg to ask a Commonwealth Court judge to convert the temporary demolition ban into a permanent one.
Seven state lawmakers, naming the city as the defendant, brought a lawsuit before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday asking that all construction of the proposed SugarHouse Casino be halted, "contending its license to build on submerged land beyond the river's edge is illegal."
Some are trying to pass laws to ban casinos in Philly, but there could already be a law on the books that would prohibit the building of at least one of the casinos: the planned SugarHouse Casino at Frankford and Delaware Avenue. It's a zoning law originally designed to restrict nightclubs.
The mayoral debates should be interesting when they finally happen, because right now the candidates can't even agree on when to have the debates, or how many to have, or what format they should be in. There's even a kind of debate cold war going on. Nutter's spokeswoman said of Fattah's recent debate proposal: "If he wants four, we want eight." That's so petty and ridiculous that it's awesome. Meanwhile, the Inquirer discusses endorsements and how important they really are for the candidates.
Meanwhile, times are tough and sales are down for cart and kiosk merchants in area malls.
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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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First, some updates on stories we linked to yesterday: the Inquirer has the unsettling details and about the shooting of a 5-year-old boy early yesterday morning, and how it connects with other recent incidents of violence in the city. As for the Turnpike shutdown, it lasted six hours, causing a ripple effect of traffic jams on adjacent roadways and stranding hundreds of motorists at the height of morning rush hour. The judge in the...
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