Tuesday gleanings

• Parents appeal to PPA, in vain
  
  
  
  1. Parking agency rebuffs schools plea: Parents seeking a share in Phila. Parking Authority profits were told most of the money is already earmarked. (what about the ballooning staff?)
     
     
  2. Parents visit PPA seeking school $
     
     
  3. Opinion: PARENTS CHALLENGE PPA: THEY SPEAK TO A HIGHER AUTHORITY: EDUCATION
  
  
• No Lollapalooza for Fairmount Park: Texas firm withdraws its proposal. This city seems to prefer to let the big ones get away... (More on the story from Wednesday, especially where the concert went, here.)
  
  
• Oh challenges results of city election -- with a result this close, I'm not surprised, but his chosen argument feels flimsy; on Wednesday he brings up a feistier charge, while not claiming that it's likely to change the outcome.
  
  
• UNFILLED PROMISE' -- what's been happening with efforts to stem the tide of highschool dropouts
  
  
• Editorial | City Council's Reform Agenda: Delay tactics are suspicious -- voters have elected "reform" candidates, and yet Council is backing off various attempts at further reform and is picking fights with watchdog Committee of 70. Hopefully they're just waiting for Nutter and the new Council class to be seated.
  
  
• PhillyMag: Good to Go: The folks behind PhillyCarShare want a million Philadelphians to give up their automobiles in the name of saving the environment. The really crazy part? They just might pull it off.
  (via Atrios)