The Daily Numbers: $144 million dollars for Cole Hamels, part of 6 year deal with option for 7th.
7,359 dollars per pitch, how much Hamels will make over the next 6 season, based on his innings pitched over the past 4 seasons.
113,521 dollars per inning.
744,186 dollars per start. Yeah, it’s insane. So raise your hand if you’re glad they re-signed him. Thought so.
10,000 dollars, how much Delaware County has spent so far on programs to educate citizens on the new Voter ID law.
1 million registered voters who now lack the proper ID in Pa., according to arguments at court challenge to the law yesterday in Harrisburg.
50 people who showed up at an informational meeting in Ridley this week for a proposed development at Sellers and Stewart avenues.
95 dollars, what it will now cost you if your car is towed in the city of Chester. The storage rate is now $43 a day.
2.5 percent pay raise for superintendent of Wallingford Swarthmore School District. He made $216,300 last year.
280 students who likely will be able to attend a new charter school approved for the city of Chester. The Chester Charter School for the Arts, for kids K-6, will open in September.
28 schools in Delaware County on list of 414 elementary and secondary schools ID’d as worst-performing in the state. Students now will be eligible for scholarships that could allow them to attend other schools.
158 of the schools – 38 percent – are in Philadelphia.
4 year death penalty that was looming over Penn State, according to the Board of Trustees. That’s why they accepted the sanctions.
3 percent increase in profits reported at Boeing.
237 ex-Conoco workers now hired at Monroe Energy to staff the former Conoco plant in Trainer.
4 straight wins for the Phillies, including 3-game sweep over the Brewers, all 3 of them by the same score, 7-6.
3 straight walkoff wins for the Phils, who are beginning to resemble the team we loved for the past 5 years.
9.5 games back in the Wild Card for the Phils. Still a long, uphill battle.
3-2 win for the MLS Stars over Chelsea in the MLS All-Star game at PPL Park in Chester.
*: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Call me a Phanatic
Don’t bother complaining about the $144 million the Phillies will pay Cole Hamels. Face it, pro athletes live in a different world than we do. Why do they make so much? Because they can. End of story.
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I Don’t Get It: The Penn State Board of Trustees now say the school took the sanctions imposed by the NCAA because they had a 4-year death penalty hanging over their head.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to John Alston. The man behind the Chester Children’s Chorus will now get the opportunity to do the same with a K-6 charter school this fall.
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Quote Box: “I’m utterly concerned, but so was Rosa Parks when she decided to sit down on a bus when the law said she shouldn’t.”
- Colwyn judge of elections Christopher Broach, who said yesterday he will not enforce state’s new Voter ID law.
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