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Through the Cracks
The Bell Curve
Stimulus money for the homeless doesn't help those in the most dire need.
The city was awarded about $21 million in stimulus money over three
years — a little less than $7 million a year. That's hardly chump
change. It was with some surprise, then, that most homeless shelter operators learned
they wouldn't be getting much of that assistance.
167 Seconds
A Million StoriesBicyclists aren't ideologues; they're commuters.
Waiting at every light costs me 167 seconds of my 20-minute commute to
work. And you can have those seconds, Philadelphia drivers. But only if
you stop acting crazy.
The Bell CurveCity Paper's Quality-o-Life-o-Meter
When news breaks in Philadelphia, we make jokes.
Questions, and The Answer
Is AI's return to the Sixers a good thing? Yes! No! Maybe!
If the 76ers' quandary over whether to bring the
recently "retired" Allen Iverson back to Philadelphia were a basketball
decision — and let's be perfectly clear that, no matter what Ed Snider
says, it's not — it would be easy: No.
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