Quick Wednesday roundup

A deluge today, and once again, things to run off to...

• Fattah will refund contributions -- donations accepted beyond the limits. Also, Fattah campaign 'misbehaved' -- exploratory committee funds used to cover campaign expenses.
  
  
• Tom Knox: Outsider with ties to the inside: The mayoral candidate decries politics as usual. He has also benefited from it. (their subtitle)
  
  
• Mayor's Race: What They're Promising -- Nutter on improving the budget process.
  
  
• Court to review donation limits ... after primary -- similarly, Pa. justices let finance limits stay for primary (Brady case appeal also under consideration)
  
  
• The PW looks at the role of lawyers in the mayoral race -- not the critical factor this year that they've sometimes been.
  
  
• The latest poll shows Knox with a growing lead, most other candidates huddled together in the teens (far behind)...
  
  
• Posts by and about politicians, over at YPP:
  1. Dwight Evans calls for an end to violence.
     
  2. Damon Roberts reports getting thrown out of a Ward meeting.
     
  3. Chaka Fattah argues that he's working for smart urban planning. Another poster responds by questioning the priorities he's laying out.
  Much conversation ensues...
  
  
• Albert reports on a District 1 Council forum held in Wash West.
  
  
• Guv: Don't look to state to plug schools deficit
  
  
• Santorum joins Big Healthcare. He's getting to be a regular hat-tree!
  
  
• City cites casino-vote time bind -- injunction creates a catch-22, as ballot measures must be advertised in advance (but this one currently may not)...
  
  
• To help ease transition, Vallas will delay his exit -- at least to make sure schools ready to open in the fall.
  
  
• Mystery donor's $15 million library challenge
  
  
• Daniel Rubin | Smart people, dumb SEPTA
  
  
• AAJane: Reform commission at work, and Montgomery County commissioners race polling.