Thursday deluge -- belated edition

• Election-related
  
  
  
  • One Council rival drops out to help other beat Miller
    
    
  • Big money coming from party bigwigs: New election-financing laws force candidates and committees to look more to their leaders. (NJ races)
    
    
  • Nutter outlines plans to make city healthier
    
    
  • CityPaper: Split Decision: Concerned citizens fight to make a judge pay for a controversial sex-crime decision.
    
    
  • DN Opinion: OUR PICKS FOR COUNCIL SEATS AND A FEW WORDS OF ADVICE FOR OUR LAWMAKERS. . .
    
    
  • Inky Editorial | Ballot Questions: 4 in N.J., 3 in Phila.
    
    
  • AAJane: Debra Todd on PCN (a Supreme Court candidate interviewed)
    
    
  • PhillyWillDo: Taubenberger: Seems Like A Nice Guy (a little snark about his campaign commercial)
  
  
• New developments in old stories
  
  
  
  • Parking Authority defended: Dwight Evans reverses course. He says their main problem was public relations, which becomes ironic in light of a Sunday story that the PPA has spent some $300k on consultants and PR firms (many with political connections, especially to Perzel)...
    
    
  • Schools, unions want Parking $
    
    
  • VA antes up for cemetery in Bucks County
  
  
• New bits
  
  
  
  • City begins lawsuits over back taxes: Among the biggest delinquents is Joe Frazier, whose North Philadelphia gym is $127,047 in arrears. [100 properties and individuals targeted.]
    
    
  • An urgent call to make repairs to city buildings: A state agency that assessed 163 city-owned buildings found many of them in dire condition.
    Also, Report: City skimping on police, fire, rec-center repairs
    
    
  • CityPaper: Gambling on Traffic: Waterfront developers are betting against a very hungry house. (New job-creating businesses may get snarled in and strangled by casino traffic.)
    
    
  • Albert: Human Chain for Peace Oct27 -- too bad this got so little press.