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Browse This Issue: November 5th, 2009

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No Exceptions
Is a draconian law forcing innocent men out of the country?
by Julia Harte
Over the last 13 years, the federal government has deported more than 1 million immigrants following criminal convictions — a number that has escalated dramatically in the last decade. But what if the men are innocent, and the law doesn't care?

Man Overboard!:
No Benefits
Forget the public option — gimme a SEPTA plan.
by Isaiah Thompson
Why is it, I wonder, that one union can be out there clamoring to keep their amazingly generous health care terms while another, like the scrappy Taxi Workers Alliance, barely has a pot to piss in?

Icepack
Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.
by A.D. Amorosi
Beans says Hova ratted him out and put money over friendship. He's nearly crying by track's end. Can't help wonder if those near-tears ain't about more than 12 bars.

A Million Stories
by Jeffrey C. Billman and Julia Harte

Eight short years later, the Philadelphia Water Department has caught the 9/11 bug, and now wants to spend $10 million to, you know, keep the terrorists from winning.


Sports:
Loser Gets Jersey
Philadelphia vs. New York. Three teams. Four games.
by E. James Beale
On the line: First place in the NFC East, a meaningless Atlantic division win, bragging rights and, oh yeah, the 105th World Series trophy. And we were there.

The Bell Curve
City Paper's Quality-o-Life-o-Meter
When news breaks in Philadelphia, we make jokes.

 
 
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