Wednesday downpour

I'd like to give these a bit more analysis, but I have a meeting at my house this evening, and some 25 open tabs...

• Traffic costs local drivers 38 hours per year -- live where you can take public transit!!
  
  
• Nutter: Police moves can wait
  
  
• City planning a top priority, Nutter says -- can the process be tamed?
  
  
• Taubenberger's 15 minutes going to waste? (could be getting Republican ideas out there more)
  
  
• Rendell suggests one health plan for school staffs -- to take that component out of every regional contract negotiation (or maybe spark state-wide strikes)
  
  
• Passions run high in raw-milk debate -- that crazy Pasteur and his germ theory!
  
  
• 3-way deal sets the stage for city public-access TV -- also TV for the people: Public-access cable finally coming to Phila.
  
  
• Alumna donates $128.5 million to George School (a Quaker school in Newton)
  
  
• Riverside immigration law voted out -- never enforced, but I'll bet folks felt unwelcome!
  
  
• Group says coal-ash fill is unsafe (used to fill abandoned coal mines in PA)
  
  
• Security probe at nuke site -- Homer napping again?
  
  
• Murtha is on list of 'corrupt'
  
  
• PW coverstory: Writing on the Wall -- the passing of an iconic graffitti wall (sniff?)
  
  
• PW: Holy War: A community fights to reopen a black Catholic church.
  
  
• AAJane: Interview with Diane Marseglia, Candidate for Bucks County Commissioner
  
  
• AAJane: Taylor and Vereb Introduce HSCA Funding Bill (hazardous site cleanup)
  
  
• AAJane: Gort's Interview with Chris Hackett (10th Congressional District)
  
  
• Metro: Many students still paying for rides to school
  
  
• Editorial | Inspector General's Office: Don't reform a good thing -- you know Philly politicians have to go after something that's working (but making them look bad)
  
  
• Opinion: SCHOOL SAFETY & THE BOTTOM LINE: BUDGET CRUNCH MEANS HARD LOOK AT PROVIDERS IS ESSENTIAL
  
  
• Letters | BAR ASSN. VOLUNTEERS FOR FAMILY COURT ROLE (to help mediate disputes over where the court should go)
  
  
• YPP: A little shot for the environment (reducing plastic bag waste)