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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.)
A couple of crazy bastards parachuted down off the Comcast Center Sunday morning. Of course, as is requisite these days when you do something stupid and dangerous, a video was taken and promptly posted on YouTube (although sadly, it has since been taken down). Police are looking for the guys, whom they plan to charge with "criminal trespassing, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe."
Now that it's become clear that Tom Knox is doing exceedingly well, and has a great deal of money, a bill has been introduced to temporarily cancel the campaign contribution limits in order to even things out a bit.
Meanwhile, a lot of work needs to be done, and a lot of money needs to be raised, if they're going to get the Sister Clara Muhammad School and the Philadelphia Masjid at 47th Street back up and running again.
Did the Feds steal money from the family of a late Center City jeweler? That's what the family is claiming.
Speaking of controversy, have you heard about the whole dust-up over the fact that an Arab company just bought another company which happens to run some operations at six American ports, including one here at Philadelphia? The company is Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business of the United Arab Emirates, which, critics point out, "was an operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks of Sept. 11." (Although, of course, Phillyist could point out that America was technically the operational and financial base for Timothy McVeigh, the guy who carried out the Oklahoma Bombings...) Some local politicians are pretty angry about the whole thing, including Pennsylvania Representative Curt Wheldon, and Senator Rick Santorum (it's a regular Santorum-fest around here today!), who has written a strongly-worded letter to the President about it. That'll show 'em!
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add to facebookThe latest in the case of Ebony Nicole Dorsey, the 14-year-old girl allegedly killed by her mother's boyfriend: the Daily News has an exclusive interview with the girl's mother, Danielle Cattie, who calls her boyfriend a monster. Meanwhile, the Inquirer quotes Cattie's brother defending his sister; he says she's "a great mom who deeply loves her children," and "She's a good person who made some bad decisions. She's paid a horrible price." It may seem...
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- It's official, Philadelphia's annual Fourth of July celebration on the Parkway will feature Lionel Ritchie and...U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito? Frankly, we're a little disappointed the former Commodore and the Justice aren't going to be doing a duet. (For a full-listing of events for the week long celebration, visit the America's Birthday website). (Via)
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Apparently the ground underneath Philly is loaded with bodies. The Philadelphia School District was using a ground-penetrating radar to scan the abandoned Franklin playground in Kensington - which was a cemetery up until the late 1940s, and which they hoped in the future would be the site of a new Frances E. Willard School - when they discovered that as many as 330 human graves were never removed. They probably won't be able to build the school there now. This is where we would normally make a Poltergeist reference (that's a shot from the movie, above), but school district boss Paul Vallas already did it for us: "I know 'Poltergeist' was just a movie, but I'm not taking any chances." (The Daily News isn't helping; they entitled their article on this "Future of new school a matter of grave concern." Argh! Did you have to, Daily News? Did you really have to?)
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