In other Thursday news

• Haverford Township is about to get a fabulous new park complex on the site of a closed hospital.
  
  
• Summer solstice Philadelphia style -- party all weekend at the Kimmel.
  
  
• PHA residents take case to Washington -- protesting cuts in federal funding that have crippled local housing programs here and around the country.
  
  
• SRC postpones decision on six outside managers (and other bits about the educational system and its plans).
  
  
• Also, SRC faces anger over exit bonus for Vallas. Nutter chips in on the dubious wisdom of paying out a big bonus for leaving a school system in financial disarray.
  
  
• Remember that pier that collapsed down at Penn's Landing, killing a handful and injuring a few dozen? Apparently this requires mayoral intervention to ensure leniency. Columnists (and bloggers) aren't the only ones perplexed by this Street move; the Inquirer editorial page demands a stern sentence too.
  
  
• A suspicious fire reveals that Philadelphia is one of its own slum-lords -- oops!
  
  
• Foxwoods loses bid on taxes -- they paid a ton for the land, which will be worth even more once a casino is built, but want to pay a pauper's tax rate. boo hoo.
  
  
• CityPaper: Foster Careless: Did culture wars quash a bill to protect children in placement?
  
  
• America's Hometown notes alternative energy bills passing the State House.
  
  
• Inky: Yo, Mike! Here's what we need you to do . . . (first installment of citizen input to our next mayor)
  
  
• AAJane: Gov. Rendell on the PCN Call-In Program: Budget Issues