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Browse This Issue: March 11th, 2010

This Week's Issue
A Million Stories
All the news we care to print.
by Jeffrey C. Billman, Brian Howard and Holly Otterbein
To Philly's Earth Quaker Action Team, simply building green doesn't cut it. Throughout last week, the group's members protested outside of the Flower Show, which PNC sponsored, because the bank does business with coal companies responsible for mountaintop removal.

Man Overboard!:
Equa-burden
If we are going to start drafting up clever new taxes, we'd first better make sure they're fair.
by Isaiah Thompson
The proposal, which would tax retailers 2 cents for every ounce of "sugar-sweetened beverage" that they sell — soda, Gatorade, frappa-mocha-chinos, and (I checked) tonic water, among others — may be multipurpose, but it's not equa-purpose. Nor is it equa-burdensome.

Sports:
Your Fantasy Draft Primer
Who to pick — and who to avoid — on the 2010 Phillies squad.
by E. James Beale
For those of us who live and die with the varied success of our clever fantasy team names — bye-bye Spliff Lees, hello The Halladay Inn — that means the time is nigh to sucker our friends into overrating Mets and finding the new breakout stars.

Soapboxer:
The New Normal
Once it's policy, there's no going back.
by Jeffrey C. Billman
The excise tax is unfairly targeted. The promised fixes may not materialize. You have every right to worry. Screw it. It's game time. Pass the bill.

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

 
 
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