Ground shifting

Tom Ferrick looks at the effects of the investigation of Philadelphia City Councilman Rick Mariano -- how things look and which sharks are circling.

In politics, as in life, you know you've got a problem when people begin to refer to you in the past tense.

I imagine so...
There's also a footnote at the bottom of the column following up on his previous story of a Drexel lawsuit brought by its own students (see item 4 here), which the school has judiciously decided to settle, after some pressure from Fumo.

Update: America's Hometown points out that the feds are increasing their corruption investigations, and that they have a mighty high rate of success in getting convictions... Sorry, Rick!