Tuesday news bits

Nothing big, but a number of interesting smaller stories caught my eye this morning:

• The legal complaint against State Supreme Court Justice Cappy for his involvement in encouraging a judicial pay-raise has been dismissed. The Conduct Board ruled that his activities fell within the rights of justices to try to improve the legal system and its functioning.
  
  
• More Pennsylvanians think Casey is "mainstream" than feel that way about Santorum. Amazingly, 49% felt that Women-should-stay-in-the-kitchen (see, e.g., here) was in the mainstream too.
  
  
• Both Senate candidates appear to be getting a lot of money from outside PA, not too surprising, given that this is one of the spotlight races of the year. [A small jab is also made here at the piddling warchests of the "other" primary candidates for these slots.]
  
  
• The Philadelphia City Controller's office appears to be taking a spat with the schools system to the next level, including audits of Vallas and school expenditures. Just what the area needs; another sandbox fight.
  
  
• Mayor Street's education secretary proposes new ways to help improve student behavior in Philadelphia's schools. Suggestions (listed at the end of the article) include a number of ways to intervene more regularly before patterns get out of hand.