First of all, the Daily News' Bob Warner and Catherine Lucey welcome Congressman Fattah to the campaign with a look at his checkered academic record.
This will be relevant, since Fattah is likely to make education his issue in this race (and since sworn foe J. Whyatt Mondesire will make it one). It will be interesting to see if he is defensive about his background or if he puts it to use for him. There are lots of people in this city who are thinking about "alternative paths to education" right now, following the sobering dropout report issued in September.
Also: The Inquirer asked Rendell who he would support for mayor, and the newly re-elected guv said...none of the above.
He's just too close to all of them to make a decision. Though, as the item by Marcia Gelbart and Angela Couloumbis reports, "Either the governor isn't good at math, or knows something the rest of us don't, because he never mentioned the possible candidacies of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady or labor leader John Dougherty."
Hmm. Let us call this Sign Number Two that those two aren't running. (Sign Number One was their absence at the African-American Chamber event.)
Rendell's coyness is a pretty safe play, since each of the remaining candidates has provided the guv with help, either in an administration or in a campaign or in a legislative body, or has given him campaign money (that would be Knox).
However, my favorite item in the Inky is a few graphs down: Saidel is going to tend bar at Denim on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, with DJ Reach performing.
Spokesman Dan Fee said this was Saidel's way to show his commitment to a vibrant nightlife.
I'm not going to pretend that I hang out at Denim, or that I get to go out much at all these days. However, and I mean this totally seriously, nightlife is something that our city does have and should develop further. It's not as important as, say, keeping the streets safe. But if we want to keep young people in this city, it better be fun.