Wednesday home sick

Ugh. Here are a few offerings...

• Street announces ethics board nominees, minutes before being shamed by a news conference (involving Nutter, among others). Always with the playground motivations...
  
  
• US Senate candidates chase each other's bases.
  
  
• Apparently there's a feisty race in Bucks county too -- summary here for those who haven't been paying attention.
  
  
• Tough mercury standards are en route to approval...
  
  
• The State House passed the nasty casino bill, and a number of Philadelphia delegates voted for it, but apparently they changed it quite a bit along the way -- the changes included the issue of local zoning controls, but as written, I can't tell whether this made things sane again, or just bizarre in a different way. More as I hear it -- ok, here Marc says it's better but still substantially flawed. Thanks to all who wrote and faxed yesterday (some of those notes got read on the floor); stay tuned for further plans on this one.
  
  
• The new Philadelphia Weekly has three promising pieces I'm not coherent enough to read: one on greenspace initiatives in the city, discussion of the new required African-American history course, and a story of an antiwar demonstration that got hassled by police with a noted absence of media witnesses.

That's all for now -- time for me to crawl back under my quilt...