Friday roundup

Mayoral

• Final Inquirer candidate profile: Michael Nutter.
  
  
• The new anti-Knox group attracting attention from the ethics board, which promises to find out who's behind it and make sure it's not a proxy for a single candidate. (Its head is a Brady backer.)
  
  
• The Daily News reports that Knox is unfazed by increased recent criticism. How would you know?
  
  
• Two more Nutter plugs: the Philadelphia Magazine's endorsement and his latest TV ad (or web?).
  
  
• The Daily News takes a look at Knox-Doc speculations and other mayoral rumors.
  
  
• YPP looks at the new mayoral poll, and pulls together additional data to help analyze the trends. Additional info from the poll is added by commenters, including changes in favorable/unfavorable ratings for each candidate.

Other news

• Regional rail ridership up, SEPTA will add 16 cars
  
  
• Council delays school budget hearings -- I guess until after the elections. More at the DN: Goode rips Street over delay of school-budget hearing
  
  
• [Juan] Ramos' bill would give artists a break on business tax. Artists' livelihood, transfats -- this guy is really on the cutting edge of city priorities!
  
  
• Short list of all-star architects for the Barnes
  -- in related news, Inga Saffron notes design efforts in the expansion of the Children's Crisis Treatment Center located right nearby.
  
  
• Opinion:
  1. Inky: Helping prison inmates return to society
     
     
  2. DN: RIVER PARK IS ON A ROLL
     
     
  3. Ben Waxman: Vote yes on youth commission
  
  
• Changing Skyline (previously missed): Bridge that's way beyond pedestrian
  
  
• AAJane: PA Congressmen in Politico
  
  
• Today's Odd Bit: somebody dug up an antique law that outlaws professional psychics, leading to a city-wide crack-down.