The Daily Numbers: 27.7 billion dollar budget signed by Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett with minutes to spare to meet the July 1 deadline.
1.5 percent increase in spending.
0 tax hike included in the spending plan.
200 dollars a month for General Assistance welfare recipients that was cut.
726,000 dollars in extra funds for Upper Darby School District put into the Accountability Block Grant Program.
2 million dollars more for U.D. found in the Distressed School Fund.
254, as in House Bill 254, passed late Saturday, which will OK red light cameras in Springfield.
95 percent save rate achieved by the Delaware County SPCA in the year since they have gotten out of the Animal Control Business.
2.7 percent tax increase in the Springfield School District budget.
110 dollars additional, what it will cost the average homeowner.
2 people shot Saturday night in Chester.
2 people killed in motorcycle crash in Bucks County.
2.7 million people in several East Coast states without power as of Sunday night because of wicked storms that blew through on Friday night.
114,000 people still without power in New Jersey.
3.41 a gallon, average price we’re paying at the pump in Philly region.
2 cents less than we were paying a week ago.
3.67, what we were paying on July 4 last summer.
3.33, the average national price.
5 straight losses for the Phillies.
0 wins since Chase Utley rejoined the team.
3 Phillies selected for All-Star team as Cole Hamels, Carlos Ruiz and Jonathon Papelbon join NL squad.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.At the halfway point of the season the Phillies have accumulated 45 losses. It doesn’t take much to double that and get a 90-loss season. Ouch!
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I Don’t Get It: Tom Corbett is hell-bent on giving tax breaks to big business to get them to locate here, but not so much for education and social programs.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to Rep.Nick Micozzie, R-163, Rep. Margo Davidson, D-164, and Sen. Ted Erickson, $-26, for delivering another $2.7 million dollars for Upper Darby School District.
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Quote Box: “The data shows that red-light camera work, and this legislation will save lives by making dangerous intersections safer.”
- State Sen. Dominic Pileggi, R-9, of Chester, on expansion of red-light program, including the possibility of putting them in Springfield.
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