June 8-14, 2006
Naked City
Running Numbers42 Rank of Pa. in the second annual GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test. Pa. drivers had an overall average score of 82.1 percent. I took the test at gmacinsurance.com/ SafeDriving/2006/test.asp and scored 85 percent. I knew it. I knew I was a better driver than all of you. I've known it ever since I failed my license test twice.
46-4-1 Career record of boxer and Philly native Bernard Hopkins, who will fight his final bout June 10 at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall against Antonio Tarver.
47 Number of sidewalk sweepers deployed daily by the Center City District, a self-described "business improvement district," to clean every walkway in Center City at least three times a day, except in winter, according to their Web site.
76 Number of board members in political watchdog group The Committee of Seventy. Not that an organization with a name like that needs to get any more badass, but nothing would promote responsible government like bringing Bernard Hopkins on board. I mean, if you're not doing anything else, Mr. Executioner, sir.
$1,000,000 Estimated yearly savings, as reported in the city's Five-Year Financial Plan for fiscal years 2007-2011, expected to result from continuing a plan launched in fiscal year 2006 to curtail overtime costs by enabling testifying police officers to "scan in and out of individual court rooms in the Criminal Justice Center instead of clocking in and out of City Hall; thereby saving the time spent traveling to and from City Hall for each court appearance." Check out the other 253 pages of the plan for additional engaging prose.