Friday news -- semimotivated edition

Here's some stuff that I want to highlight:

• Numbers to call if you run into problems when voting on Tuesday, in Philadelphia or in Montgomery, Delaware, or Chester counties. (Bucks? You're on your own.) Also, here are some reminders on where and when to go to the polls.
  
  
• Philadelphia voters may be surprised to find that there are three ballot questions listed for next Tuesday. The Inquirer offers a summary and recommendations. (Not sure that I agree with them, but am still looking for better info.)
  
  
• Sestak feels good about his voter turnout troops for the final push.
  
  
• Sherwood's campaign must be glum in face of more details about the hefty sum he paid his mistress to keep the story to herself until after the election...
  
  
• Bhakta tries to personally prove that politics is a circus.
  
  
• More on the action in the 8th District, which is seeing heaps of third-party ads for and against Fitzpatrick and Murphy, as well as a heap of visits, as by this bus full of Democratic rainmakers. The Daily News dissects one ad, and Daddy Democrat explains what it's like to be in the suburbs right now, with the deluge of mailings and other campaign action coming at you all the time.

Here's some other stuff I feel should be linked, but can't get psyched up to do much with...

• Rendell and Swann on how to spend education funds.
  
  
• Nutter on proposed cuts to Philly school spending.
  
  
• Tasco on how to spend city surplus.
  
  
• Ramos claims Philly making progress on disaster plan.
  
  
• Inquirer applauds lobbying reform, says more needed.
  
  
• DN notes new riverfront plan put to test by big project already well along.
  
  
• Finally, the recent kerfluffle at Philadelphia's Department of Human Services (not blogged here), relating to its poor safeguarding of abused children, has led Mayor Street to convene a panel to look at all child-welfare cases.