Arlene Ackerman Abuses the System Even More

Plus: Who gets free parking in Philadelphia, Rendell regrets DROP, and more of what Philly is talking about this morning
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Ackerman Took Advance Pay for Vacation Days. Apparently her 300G salary isn’t enough — the schools chief pulled in thousands more by cashing in her unused vacation days ahead of time. Can you spell E-N-T-I-T-L-E-M-E-N-T, kids? [Inquirer]

Michael Meehan Gets Free Parking. And a few other facts about who else gets free parking from the city that will make your head explode. [Inquirer]

Rendell: We Wouldn’t Have Done DROP. If we knew how employees and elected officials would take advantage of it. [Philly.com]

Joe Sestak Is Hustling for Every Vote. Long NY Times Magazine piece about the candidate, his upset of Specter, and his race against Toomey. [NY Times]

The Return of the Three-Martini Lunch. Le Meridian is bringing it back, sort of, for a pretty cheap price. Klein has details. [Philly.com]

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