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Inquirer, “Pressing the flesh during the dog days,” today:
The streets are a little emptier, the clothes a little brighter, and pedestrians’ steps a little lighter. Some days it seems the whole city is at the Shore.
It’s the dead of summer, and the living is easy in Philadelphia - unless you want to be mayor.
Daily News, “A dream dies in N. Philly,” today:
The house that Ruth built was shuttered last month because Birchett can no longer support it on a small juvenile-delinquency-prevention grant from the city’s Department of Human Services and large contributions from her modest disability income.
Her absence will be felt in her drug-riddled neighborhood, where the police reported 578 violent crimes last year and 653 through July of this year.
“The only commerce in this neighborhood is D-commerce, drug commerce,” the 54-year-old grandmother said. “That’s because there is no access to any other kind of employment that pays a living wage.
Yeah, but those mayoral candidates have it the hardest.
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