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(fyi: Defense began its presentation 2:41 p.m.)
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer’s live blog of today’s sentencing hearing for Vince Fumo, the judge says the Fumo case letters will be made public. This is great news. Now we can see who said what. The case letters were submitted by Fumo friends and allies who are asking [...]

The Philadelphia Police Department began yesterday patrolling areas of the city on 10 new Segways.
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told KYW that the two-wheel motorized units extend an officer’s capabilities.
“On a Segway, you are able to get down there very, very quickly, so it does extend your ability to patrol very, very significantly.”
The new Segway police [...]

More than a hundred cellphone-packing vandals swarmed parts of South Philadelphia over the weekend in what can only be described as a major smart mob attack. The term “smart mob” was coined by futurist Howard Rheingold who uses it to describe how a geographically dispersed people can be drawn together at any moment to perform [...]

This new crime map called Spotcrime uses video game style icons to show you where evil lurks. For instance, the fist icon shows you where a violent crime such as an assault has happened. When I clicked on the Philadelphia map on Friday afternoon it showed that a murder occurred within the last 24 [...]

Like her or not, you can’t argue that District Attorney Lynne Abraham has one thing in spades - staying power. If Philadelphia were the setting for Law and Order, she would definitely be Sam Waterston, which I guess would make Ron Castille Michael Moriarty (or better yet, David Caruso, another person who left a successful [...]

So Alan and I were discussing the idea of how the Vince Fumo story would be, should be and is probably already being made into a book… with a movie to follow of course. There are probably at least a few newspaper reporters who are looking at the prospects for their own industry’s future and [...]

If he could take it back - and I am sure there is a long list of things Vince Fumo would like to take back today - No. 1 would be his decision to testify on his own behalf at his federal corruption trial.
As jurors made clear yesterday - after finding Fumo guilty of all [...]

WHYY’s Susan Phillips just filed a story about the cost to taxpayers of the federal corruption trial of Vince Fumo.  Factoring in just court salaries, the judge, security and jury costs, the trial has cost a little under $9000 per day.  That doesn’t even count the salaries of the U.S. attorneys, their staff and other [...]

Woke up this morning to the awful news that a 25-year-old police officer, John Pawlowski was shot and killed last night near Broad and Olney.   He and a partner were responding to a call from a cab driver who was being threatened by an armed man.  When the two officers told the man to remove [...]