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		<title>Friday Facts: Narnia, Math, Linguistics, Lascivious Radios</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/11/20/friday-facts-narnia-math-linguistics-lascivious-radios/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Median age of mathematics texts used in city public schools:  18 years :: Median tenure of mathematics teachers in city schools:  4.5 years :: Median SAT mathematics score, city schools (2008):  485 :: Percentage of 12th graders in city schools who know how ‘median’ differs from ‘average’:  38% :: A city ordinance passed in 1931 prohibited the hiring by city hospitals of any registered nurse “younger than nine years of age, regardless of experience or education.” State medical laws, which supersede municipal doctrine, mandate a minimum age of 21. :: The city’s official “Fictional Sister City” is Narnia, according to a 2001 mayoral edict. Prior to that, it had been Atlantis. :: Languages which have been banned within city limits over the years include, but are not limited to: French, Portuguese, Java, Tagalog, Mandarin, “variants of Basque,” English and “Anything even remotely Irish.” :: A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad “fight special” bearing more than a hundred boxing fans to the city for a series of welterweight title matches was met by special police at Central Depot on this day in 1927, to respond to complaints of illegal drink-mixing and gun sales on the Common Rate car. :: A short-lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Charlie&#8217;s Angels Lunchboxes, Roadside Cabbage, Fake Squid</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/12/friday-facts-charlies-angels-lunchboxes-roadside-cabbage-fake-squid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: A City Council ordinance passed on this date in 1975 expressly prohibited the “display of images of a licentious, erotic, salient or pornographic nature, or which otherwise arouse the prurient interest for the sole purpose of titillation” on children’s metal lunchboxes. :: The Seventh of the Eight Great Zoo Hoaxes was committed on this day in 1968. :: Number of regular weekly Farmer&#8217;s Markets (regulated) within city limits: 12 :: Number of regular weekly Farmer&#8217;s Markets (regulated) within city limits three years ago: 4 :: Number of stands where it&#8217;s just guys selling produce streetside: At least 47 (according to a story this week by the Clarion-Journal) :: Number of these out of a station wagon: 10 :: Number of these out of a van: 22 :: Number of these out of an old ice cream truck: 1 :: Number of vacant lots/properties being used for farming, under the city&#8217;s new UrbanFarm program: 18 :: When First Amendment activists blocked a 1979 attempt by the City Council to pass an ordinance against the sale and display of shirts bearing the legend “FBI: Federal Breast Inspector,” the City Council successfully retaliated by passing a different ordinance requiring three-hundred hours of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Mayor to Toss Quarters</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/12/01/new-mayor-to-toss-quarters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of outgoing Mayor Joseph Wilders’ best-received programs was his initiative to remove outdated ordinances from the city’s legal code (first item). However, the gratitude of the populace at no longer being required to maintain the lower edge of their moustaches above the upper lip (1871) eventually proved to have a negligible effect on his re-election prospects. Nonetheless, taking her cue from the popularity of her predecessors program, Mayor-elect Maribeth Cosgrove has announced her own initiative designed to streamline and economize the way the city does business. To demonstrate her intention to cut costs, budgets, bureaucracy, taxes and red-tape, Mayor-elect Cosgrove has announced that her administration will no longer award special recognition – and the more liberal interpretation of parking, construction and zoning regulations that thus applies – to city neighborhoods officially designated as &#8220;quarters.&#8221; In addition, the roster of  recognized city &#8220;quarters&#8221; will be rolled back to the level established in 1982, when the Hospitality Quarter became the fifth such city neighborhood to be so recognized. “I believe that five quarters are sufficient for any municipality” reads the critical line in the Mayor-elect’s press release dated November 24, 2008. Other city &#8220;Quarters&#8221; to be grandfathered in under the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What You&#8217;re Voting For Tomorrow, Locally</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/11/03/what-youre-voting-for-tomorrow-locally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, tomorrow&#8217;s election day and, in addition to the presidential race, there are also many local races and issues to be decided, in what is expected to be a day of record turnout. A few items which will appear on (most of) your local ballots follow: Mayoral Largely between incumbent Mayor Joseph Wilders (D) and longtime City Councilwoman Maribeth Cosgrove (R). Also running are Lewis Armstrong (Lib), Louis M. Armstrong (Green) and Leonard Pierce (Ind). City Council Races will be decided in Districts 1, 2, 5, 8 and 10, as well as in three of the seven at-large seats. Municipal Court Two of these slots are up for grabs. Choose at random or along party lines, as you always do. Comptroller Only one, of course. See &#8220;Municipal Court.&#8221; Board of Education Again, unless you know someone, close your eyes and point the little sharp sticky thing at two people. Ordinances :: A resolution to turn management/maintenance of 40% of the City&#8217;s parks over to a private company. :: Approval of a $25.9 million bond toward &#8220;general infrastructure improvements.&#8221; :: Measure that would make defrauding a restaurant a misdemeanor offense. :: The allowing of liquor licenses in the currently dry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The City&#8217;s Runaway Neighborhood Threatens Again</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/07/14/the-citys-runaway-neighborhood-threatens-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President George W. Bush&#8217;s scheduled departure from office next year has many of our citizens preparing for a street fight of sorts. On February 1st, the upscale President Heights neighborhood is scheduled to add a second Bush St. to its ever-growing borders, and seven city organizations, including the Falmouth Hill Preservation Association, the Norbeck St. Residents&#8217; Group, and Community Board 6 are urging the city to halt the proceedings. To succeed they will have to convince the city council to repeal a 139-year-old amendment to the city&#8217;s charter that ranks as one of the most short-sighted and destructive bits of legislation in city history. If the council refuses, as seems likely, a 12-block section of Norbeck St. in historic Falmouth Hill would be re-christened after our 43rd president. Several landmarks on that stretch &#8211; including one of the city&#8217;s oldest churches and the Teal Estate, the original mayoral mansion &#8211; could be torn down or renamed at the whim of the President Heights Community Association, notorious for its draconian covenants that regulate the height, appearance, name and function of buildings within its ever-expanding borders. The reason our city is almost powerless to stop this possible desecration of its own landmarks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bars of St. Mary&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/01/07/the-bars-of-st-marys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liquor permits in the Lawsonhurst district are a bit hard to come by. It&#8217;s one of the areas of the city whose spirits laws fall under the stricter 1913 Annexation Plan and as such, it has a fixed number of permits available at any given time, as opposed to the more relaxed methods of permitting in, say, University Center, Downtown or Sampson Heights. Up in Lawsonhurst, there are four permits available for an area stretching from the Ostanahoc River to the Barnes Expressway, from Baseline Road to Carverville Boulevard. A pretty big area, sure, but complicating the issue is Lawsonhurst&#8217;s boost in popularity over the last seven years or so, after the opening of the new transit center in 1999 and developer Anson Happ&#8217;s extensive investment- constructing new condominiums, rehabbing existing housing stock, almost as though he were trying to will a new area of the city to come to life. But there&#8217;s the issue of those four permits, held by Old Albie&#8217;s Tap Room, Manglia&#8217;s Family Eatery, Eagles Post 981 and St. Mary&#8217;s of the Redeemer, while every other new restaurant in the area has had to try and make the BYOB thing sound better than being able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silencing of the Ice Cream Trucks</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/06/18/the-silencing-of-the-ice-cream-trucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of the first big heat wave of the season also marks the sight of wave after wave of ice cream trucks winding their way through the city&#8217;s neighborhoods, delivering cones and bars to its overheated citizens. Of course, this comes with the familiar sound of repetitive tinkling music, which can be heard from blocks away. In the summer of 1989, however, the tinkling was almost silenced. Two weeks before City Council&#8217;s summer recess, Councilman Ralph Berks introduced legislation that would prohibit &#8220;the operation of mobile vending vehicles which are outfitted for the playback of recorded music or other audio, between the months of May and October and between the hours of 12pm and 8am, daily. During these hours of operation, they are to play any such music or other audio at the lowest volume possible.&#8221; The measure was obviously directed at the city&#8217;s ice cream truck operators, especially the largest, Ice Cream Motor Novelty and Treat Co., whose garage and distribution facility was located in Berks&#8217; district. Basically, the bill would only allow this and other independent companies to sell ice cream for four hours in the morning (when no reasonable parent would allow their kid to eat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Spaghetti, Mad Beats, Otto-Mans</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/20/friday-facts-spaghetti-mad-beats-otto-mans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: The Knights of Pythias annual spaghetti dinner in support of Special Olympics has been canceled this year due to a decline in membership from three to one. Group spokesman, 101 year-old Charlie Cassidy, apologized for the cancellation, citing his difficulty distinguishing the numbers on the stove dials, and his inability to lift a full kettle of water by himself following the passing of his son, Charlie Jr., from natural causes at age 82. :: Number of posters, flyers and informational brochures (combined total) printed up for this Sunday&#8217;s Earth Day festival/concert at Baxter Park: 31,000 :: Number of Sanitation Department overtime hours estimated for the post-festival/concert cleanup: 150 :: Most popular dog food flavors sold regionally in 2006, according to Champ Brand Dog Food manufacturers, 1711 E.Blind St: Lamb, lamb and rice, beef, beef and rice. Least popular: Milk, “Dog Food.” :: The last blacksmith shop in the city, John Schmidt’s 1890 Village Smithy, closed in 1979, although it operated as a curiosity, tourist site and gift shop for most of its last five decades. The last blacksmith shop to actually support itself strictly with ‘blacksmithing’ was Clark’s Harness &#38; Metal Works, which closed in 1937. :: Paper cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff Sullivan&#8217;s &#8220;Cylinder of Dominance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/09/stuff-sullivans-cylinder-of-dominance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Council voted Friday to close a loophole in the City Charter that had allowed for one of the odder legal battles in recent history. By a 5-1 margin, council decided to bring the city’s air-rights definitions into conformance with state and federal standards. For years, the city’s disinclination to define where a property owner’s air rights end allowed – theoretically, it was thought – for a building of infinite height. City Hall watchers put the curious loophole up there with anachronistic laws regarding what time cows have to vacate downtown and which compass direction the city’s clock keeper must face while adjusting time pieces for daylight-saving time. One wag wrote in the 1970s, when the city was in the grip of soaring crime and unemployment, “Since we’ve gotten about as low as we can go, why not try to go equally as high? Come on, someone out there must want to build a skyscraper to the stars.” But the issue gained material importance only three years ago when local car salesman Eddie &#8220;Stuff&#8221; Sullivan claimed ownership of infinite space directly above his dealership at Center Highway and Count Road. The issue first came to light during a special Zoning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Eggs, Monodirevr, Stripper Parkas</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/30/friday-facts-eggs-monodirevr-stripper-parkas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: This Saturday is the 34th annual Last Year&#8217;s Easter Egg Hunt at Whittinger&#8217;s Park. The Greek Gardening Consortium insists that they hid more than 12 eggs and that if the rest aren&#8217;t found there will be no 35th annual Easter Egg Hunt at Whittinger&#8217;s Park. :: Acts of violence committed against actors dressed as “Ronald McDonald” since 1980: 17 :: Acts of violence committed against actors dressed as “The Hamburglar” since 1980: 12 :: Acts of violence committed against actors dressed as “Birdy the Early Bird” since 1980: 30 :: Apples are the third most popular fruit currently sold at Haspiel&#8217;s Produce. :: When asked, in a 2006 Evening Press poll, which insect they’d be most willing to eat “if worse came to worse,” the majority of the respondents preferred “crickets.” :: Jumbo, P.T. Barnum’s famous elephant, visited the city seven times before he was killed in a locomotive accident in 1885, and once after. :: Exotic dancers are required to wear jackets during the Winter season, according to a 2002 city ordinance, as part of a concerted effort to reduce instances of cold and flu. :: A regionally-produced version of the popular board game Monopoly incorrectly spelled “Moondriver [...]]]></description>
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