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Marjorie Rendell (that's Governor Rendell's wife) was being driven in an SUV by a state trooper Tuesday night at 8th and Pine when a luxury car ran a red light and struck her vehicle. Both vehicles had to be towed, and two people in the car were taken to the hospital complaining of head, shoulder, and back pain, but nobody in the SUV was injured.
The Daily News discusses the pros and cons of the city's plan to fit out Philly with surveillance cameras. The folks quoted here from either side have pretty poor arguments to back up their positions; the ACLU spokesperson says even if the cameras make us safer, we might lose the "joys of anonymity" and have to live in a "less pleasant" society. Um, so what? Meanwhile, DA Lynne Abraham says (and we're paraphrasing slightly here), "There are already cameras everywhere else, so why not? C'mon, everybody else is doing it!" Which is, of course, a terrible argument for doing anything. Really the most compelling argument for the cameras is the evidence from similar programs in other cities, and from a trial run in our own, that they really do help to keep criminals off the streets and decrease violence. And we could certainly use a decrease in violence in the city right now.
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Having lived away from our fair city for several years in my halcyon college days, this Phillyist can tell you that there were few things more welcome in a care package from home than a few packets of Tastykakes with their icing embedded against the wrapper. As such, I'm taking the news rather hard.
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