The members of Gearing Up, an all-female cadre composed of drug addicts, the homeless and ex-cons, are quite possibly the most polite bicyclists in the city.

You can't help but wonder: Which of these hundreds of denied records requests involve things we ought to know? And more importantly, why doesn't the city think we as taxpayers are entitled to them? These questions and gaps in intelligence brew an intoxicatingly, frustratingly, even tantalizingly mysterious air around City Hall — an air that Mayor Michael Nutter promised to promptly clear when he entered office in 2008. But he hasn't done any such thing.

Gay rights, black power, pro-choice — all of these things are easy enough to grasp. Then there's the poor anti-hydraulic fracturing cadre.

It's selfish, really: The only reason we study animals is to learn more about ourselves.

It's not that DLI isn't doing its job. Indeed, the price tag of the fraudulent claims amounts to less than 1 percent of the total cost of unemployment benefits. The problem isn't that Pennsylvanians are suddenly lazy; rather, it's a symptom of the recession.

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"Their safety standards were abysmal, despite lip service to the contrary," says former Ride the Ducks Capt. Daylin Louderback.

The open road, already a paradoxical symbol of freedom and oil addiction, is now the stage for modern-day warfare. How's that for a prepackaged motif?

The DCC says that it took the fledglings to court because they didn't have enough legitimate signatures of registered Democrats to get on the ballot. Tracey Gordon, however, remembers things a little differently.

"I thought you were innocent until proven guilty. Not in Philadelphia's court system. If you can't pay no bail, you're guilty until proven innocent."