The Daily Numbers -- Dec. 14

The Daily Numbers: 3,000 that’s the magic number when it comes to the airport redesign plan. Under the FAA proposal, flights could veer out over the county at that low altitude.


38 homicides so far this year in Delaware County, the latest two being a woman found in her home in Aldan and a man shot to death in Chester.


26 total of homicides in the county last year.


0 increase in real estate taxes for Chester residents under the budget approved by City Council.


29,681 dollars contributed to date to our Merry Christmas Fund. We’re slowly but surely closing in on our goal of $50,000. All funds go to the Salvation Army.


506 million bucks that is sitting in the state’s property tax relief fund, the result of some of the moolah raked in by the state’s new slots casinos. The bottom line? Pennsylvanians should finally be getting for tax relief next year.


1925, that’s when the Swiss Pastry Shop opened its doors in Center City Philadelphia. It closed for good Thursday.


1 stray bullet that struck and killed a store employee as he stood inside a North Philadelphia food market Thursday night.


1 billion pieces of mail that are expected to be handled Monday the U.S. Postal Service, their busiest day of the year.


20 million dollars that will be paid by Montgomery County drug company Merck from three chemical spills that killed more than 1,000 fish and fouled the Philadelphia drinking water.


85 names that appear on the Mitchell Report on drug abuse in baseball that was issued yesterday. They run the spectrum from Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens to former Phil Lenny Dykstra and journeyman Todd Pratt.


1 game for the whole ball of wax as Garnet Valley plays for the PIAA AAA football crown tonight in Hershey. Go Jags!


12 years and $69 million in a new contract for Flyers Mike Richards. For a hockey player. Unreal.



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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
How sad is it that they are playing a football game Sunday and nobody cares. Remember when the Cowboys used to mean a week of passion that rivals anything in Philly sports? Remember the last few times we hooked up with our old pal, T.O. Now everyone just shrugs. That should tell the Eagles brass more about their season then anything.

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I Don’t Get It: Seems like Clifton Heights is not the only place dealing with racial intolerance. A home rented to a black family in Philadelphia’s Port Richmond section was the target of racial vandals. I don’t’ get it.



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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the pair of SEPTA trolley operators being credited with saving the life of a man who was stricken at 69th Street.



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Quote Box: “It has been a long battle, but the county is committed to continuing the battle.”

-- County Council chairman Andy Reilly on the legal tug of war over the FAA’s airport redesign plan.

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