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News from today’s Inky

• Phila. in census push to make everyone count
  Hot rhythms pour from a sidewalk speaker at Centro Musical, a compact-disc shop near Fifth Street and Lehigh Avenue in a heavily Latino part of North Philadelphia. Largely Puerto Rican, the enclave called El Centro de Oro, or Golden Center, has swelled in the last decade with Dominicans, Colombians, Venezuelans, and other Hispanic immigrants. […]
• Moorestown dealer hopes to renew ties with GM
  Tom Hessert Jr. once drove 215 m.p.h. as a race-car driver. Until last spring, he sold 400 to 500 new Chevys a year as owner of Classic Chevrolet in Moorestown. Then General Motors waved a red flag: As it plotted its emergence from a historic federal bailout and bankruptcy, GM told Classic Chevrolet and 2,000 of its counterparts it no longer needed them. […]
• N.J. bill mandates public employees live in state
  If New Jersey taxpayers fund your paychecks, you ought to live in the Garden State, too. That's the thinking behind a bill proposed in the Legislature this week, which already has drawn bipartisan support from Gov. Christie and Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D., Gloucester), among other political leaders. It also has attracted loud criticism from pub […]

News from today’s Daily

• Stu Bykofsky: Terrorists look 'like us'? In JihadJane, that day is here
  JIHADJANE has a message for racial-profiling fans: Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah. JihadJane blew up the notion - never really widely held - that being a blue-eyed blonde should slide you through airport security like grease through a goose while everyone with a Middle Eastern name, a swarthy complexion or a turban should be strip-searched by Transportation Se […]
• DOCTOR FROM HELL . . . OR GODSEND?
  IN A MATTER of a few moments - long enough for men with badges to say that they had a search warrant - Kermit B. Gosnell's 43-year medical career came to a grinding halt. […]
• Before 'jihad,' Colleen had her demons
  Colleen LaRose was a troubled woman even before, authorities say, she went on the Internet as JihadJane and offered herself up as an avenging angel to Islamic militants. […]

The Philadelphia Public School Notebook

• Opportunity to learn, rush to equity
  This week's guest blog post comes from Herb Kohl who continues to be an educator and writer. His most recent book is The Herb Kohl Reader (New Press, 2009). He's also a Notebook Member. Some suggestions for educational reform: I suggest we replace the Race to the Top with a Race to Equity, and find a way to introduce Opportunity to Learn articles i […]
• Notes from the news, Mar. 10
  Making progress, West. Phila. High wary of district move The Inquirer West's application to be an Innovation School, where a team of current school leaders would run it as a Renaissance School, was rejected. But the District may manage it as a Promise Academy, run out of central office. Save the National Writing Project Practical Theory blog The project […]
• Benchmark time again
  This week teachers across the School District will administer the benchmark tests. This process doesn't always yield great results. There have been questions on material that was well ahead on the planning and scheduling timeline. Reconciling different curricula leads to concepts being displayed differently on the benchmark than I have taught them. I be […]

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Mighty Writers

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• Mighty Song of the Day
  “Treat Her Right,” Roy Head […]
• But Do the 40-Year-Old Stockbrokers Hang Up the “Exclusive Poster Inside”?
  According to a story in the LA Times, grown- ups are increasingly reading young adult books— attracted by “well-written, fast-paced and enga- ging stories.” The LA Times story makes quite the case: young adult stories are more fun, have better plots, etc., etc. David Levithan, the editorial director and vice president of Scholastic, is quoted thusly: ”You go […]
• Mighty Quote of the Day
  “You gotta admit, sometimes Margene is just a plain airhead.” —Ginnifer Goodwin (Margene in “Big Love”) […]
• Read All About It!
  Your e-dition of Mighty Times, right here, ladies and germs! Hard copies available at Mighty Writers World Headquarters now! Big shout-out to our friends at Bartash Printing! […]

Young Philly Politics

• National Coming Out Day for Undocumented Youth
  While most eyes are focused on the HCR debate right now, there is another high-stakes legislative issue waiting in the wings. For those whose families and communities are impacted by the problematic immigration system, immigration reform is as crucial as anything else on the Democratic agenda. But right now, immigrants and advocates are wondering whether imm […]
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• Gambling's real winners and losers
  On Sunday, Monica Yant Kinney wrote a shocking story about the locals who make Bucks County's Parx Casino so "profitable." According to Parx, most of their clients live within a 20 mile radius of Street Road and come 3-4 times a week, losing $25-$30 a trip. Today we get to meet one of Parx's regulars: a former construction worker who was […]
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• Things you can do during a recession: reform row offices
  To paraphrase the Daily News' Catherine Lucey, the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority says we'd save $13-$15 million annually if we eliminated four independent row offices and moved their functions to other city agencies or the court system. The queenpin of one such office, the Clerk of Quarter Sessions, announced her resignation […]
  Sam Durso
• Things that make me want to go . . . . UGH
  Today’s front page Inquirer story on the chaos at South Philly High School on Dec. 3: The chaos and trauma that gripped South Philly High is front and center - as is the leadership of SPHS principal LaGreta Brown. From before 9 a.m. and continuing throughout the school day, Brown knew of multiple attacks on Asian immigrant students and a school in crisis and […]
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• “We have completed our underwriting review and are sorry to advise that we must decline your request for insurance coverage"
  “We have completed our underwriting review and are sorry to advise that we must decline your request for insurance coverage…We regret that we are unable to consider based on medical history as noted in your medical records” I received this letter in the mail from Independence Blue Cross nearly 9 weeks after applying for coverage. As I roll over in bed, nearl […]
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