The Daily Numbers - Jan. 4

The Daily Numbers: 8 votes, margin of victory for Mitt Romney over Rick Santorum yesterday in the Iowa Caucus.


30,015 votes for Romney, to 30,007 for Santorum. And on to New Hampshire.


4 decades on the Chester police force for Joe Bail, who was sworn in as the city’s new top cop yesterday.


23 homicides in Chester in 2011.


1 so far in 2012; a man was shot to death on a Chester street early Tuesday. It was the county’s first homicide of 2012.


19, age of victim of fatal Chester shooting.


1 man from Chester working as pizza delivery man in Philly gunned down in robbery attempt.


500,000 dollars bail set for suspect in hit-run in Folcroft that left victim, a father of 2, in critical condition.


16 residents cited for underage drinking at a party out in Bethel. Most are believed to be students at Garnet Valley High School.


0.85 mill tax hike in Upper Darby, along with a $20 increase in sewer fees.


5 new judges who took the oath and joined the Delco bench yesterday.


3 members of County Council who were sworn in yesterday during ceremonies at the Media Courthouse.


750 jobs at stake, which sparked a protest by postal workers out in Wayne yesterday.


47,298 dollars raised by this year’s Merry Christmas Fund to benefit the Salvation Army in Chester.


32 fire fatalities in Philadelphia in 2011.


1,406 pink slips being handed out by school district of Philadelphia.


3 cars that hit woman in a wheelchair in Delaware. None of them stopped.


1,649 pieces of bogus Winter Classic merchandise worth $350,000 seized by feds in Philly.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Thanks for nothing, Mr. Lurie. We already know the season was a dismal disappointment. What we wanted to know was what you were planning to do about it. Not much, apparently.


 


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I Don’t Get It: Kids now are not only vandalizing cars, they now feel the need to video their acts and post them on the Internet. I don’t get it.


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Today’s Upper: Kudos to all those public officials who took their oaths of office yesterday. It’s a new day in the city of Chester, with a new mayor and police chief.


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Quote Box: “Family is what drives me, and Chester is my family.”


- John Linder, newly sworn-in mayor of Chester.

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