Other updates and opinions

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  • The Kimmel Center and its architecht have reached a settlement in their dispute over who was responsible for time and cost overruns. Good; the institution and city both avoid a needless black eye in slamming a hugely popular and successful building...
    
    
  • The minimum wage bill may be poised for a vote, so now is a good time to contact your representatives (especially if they are Republican and/or in the leadership) to express your support for paying working families a wage they can live on...
    
    
  • PA Supreme Court Justice Cappy is unrepentant about his desire for a raise, and thinks judges should be more independent of the legislature.
  
  
  
• Opinion:
  
  
  
  • The Inquirer editorial page calls on the Gaming Board to loosen its rules for being allowed to testify at its hearings about casino locations. Three minutes + precleared + very polite + written permission = we don't really want to hear from you...
    
    
  • The Daily News opinion page applauds the idea of wireless but expresses suspicion about the lack of details being allowed to see sunlight. They think a bit more transparency would make everybody breathe more easily.
    
    
  • Mark Alan Hughes thinks that Mayor Street's proposed rearrangement of the housing agencies is a move in the right direction, but questions why he didn't suggest it sooner and go after more substantial related reforms.
    
    
  • Marc Stier has two chewy pieces up today at his blog, one the next installment of his series on what progressives can learn from their failures (this time, narrow issue focus and the fractionalization it can create), and the other a discussion of demands for lower business taxes and of what other strategies might be available for economic growth in Philadelphia.