Mayor Michael Nutter might be facing a veto fight over the City Council’s approval of a large electronic billboard, according to the Inquirer. The Council seems poised, despite the addition of a federal threat to withhold road funding, to override the mayor’s threatened veto.
Philly Mag reports that a convicted Bucks County sex abuser has been sentenced to over 5 centuries behind bars.
Philly Mag also has an editorial by Susan Gregory Thomas on PA’s student loan system, whose debtors have the second-highest level outstanding in the nation, and which she refers to as morally bankrupt.
The Philly Declaration 
