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Good mid-morning, Philadelphia. It's getting hot in here and we're not sure we can take the heat much longer.

Philly.com clearly doesn't pay enough attention to Phillyist. Didn't they learn last week? And so today, you get a two-fer.

Good Morning, Philadelphia! Welcome back to your desk. We apologize for the late news, but we're still adjusting to our Monday morning just as we suspect that you are. So, pour yourself another cup of coffee and settle in with today's highlights.


• 20 tons of trash and 130 portapotties were hauled from the Parkway this weekend. No official number yet, but they're saying "hundreds of thousands" of people showed up to Philly for the Welcome America festivities.
• The weekend wasn't without it's sad stories, however. Nationwide, five people died from fireworks, one accident occuring in Quakertown.
• Watch where you park your car on weekday mornings. The PPA is installing 17 truck loading zones where ONLY delivery trucks will be allowed to park from 6am to 10am. The PPA feels the measures are warranted due to the backups on Chestnut Street that the delivery trucks create.

We're really bad about using Amazon for everything, but we're going to try really really hard to be better. Losing Robin's made us die a little inside.

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We don't know how we missed this before, but Philly.com is liveblogging Vince Fumo's trial. Prepare to spend your lunch hour riveted and amused—and just a little skeeved out.

We'd probably feel a bit ill if we were in the midst of what looks like a sure-to-lose federal corruption trial. So we can't really say we're surprised this developing story: Late this afternoon, in the midst of his [seemingly endlessly ongoing] trial, Senator Vince Fumo began to experience nausea, dizziness, and shortness of breath, and elevated blood pressure. Fumo remained alert and calm, and told the judge he did not want to go to the hospital. However, the judge decided that Fumo did not look well and adjourned court for the day; Fumo was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital. We're sure more details and reports will emerge in the coming days, but that's about all that's known at the moment.

We at Phillyist have just a little bit of a thing for animals, especially doggies and kitties (as if you haven't noticed). On the flip side, we're not too big on sleazy politicians. Especially ones under indictment for corruption. We know there's that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing, so you'll have to forgive us if we're not giving Vince Fumo the benefit of the doubt in his federal corruption trial. So combine our love of our four-legged friends with our distaste for corrupt power-abusers, and you get a no-brainer for this week's Asshole of the Week.

- And speaking of local lawmakers getting uppity, Senator Vince Fumo has declared the war in Iraq to be "unnecessary, immoral and counterproductive." In the same speech he referred to the Bush presidency as a "dictatorship" and also accused the administration of ignoring the Constitution. That pesky Constitution. Seems Pennsylvania Senators are fixated on it.

- Looks like the Mayor's brother won't be running for state representative after all. We imagine he didn't want the job all that badly, since he didn't bother showing up to defend his petition.

by Neil McGarry