DEFINITE READS
- Science will bust out all over in April [Inquirer] — It’s a very unfortunate headline, but a good profile of Science Festival from the Franklin Institute happening in April, some events from which are cross listed with Philly Tech Week, the last week of April.
- School District of Philadelphia facilities map [Public School Notebook] — Very cool Google Map of all public school buildings, including occupancy rates and student achievement, among other details
- Philly, Pittsburgh docs hope to give young cancer survivors a chance to be parents when they grow up [RD Mag] H/T Keystone Edge
Below, PhillyCarShare goes electric, budget woes and triumphs and more.
MIGHT BE WORTH IT
- Time for a results-oriented city budget [Inquirer] — An op-ed from City Councilman Bill Green
- Corbett’s budget makes life sciences happy [Philadelphia Business Journal] — But not universities
- How powerful [city art] commission quietly stewards Philadelphia’s visual legacy [PlanPhilly]
- PhillyCarShare going electric in summer [Philadelphia Business Journal]
- Students launch wiki site for Princeton [Daily Princetonian] H/T NewsWorks
GIVE A GLANCE
- Wharton still fourth in Businessweek undergrad ranking [Daily Pennsylvanian]
- Bigger, better Pennsylvania Convention Center is dedicated [Philadelphia Business Journal] — 700,000 square feet completed ‘on time and on budget.’
- Smartphone can be boarding pass [Philadelphia Business Journal] — US Airways using mobile devices at Philly International
- Delivering financial literacy to women in a daily e-mail [PhillyInc: Inquirer] — On Amanda Steinberg’s DailyWorth.net raising its first outside invest, $850,000, a female-centric finance newsletter
- Talking Takio with Philadelphia Based Colorist Nick Filardi [Geekadelphia]
- Philadelphia less positive about Nutter [Philadelphia Business Journal] — “43 percent would opt for more services/higher taxes and 44 percent fewer services/lower taxes”
- Teens Arrested After Flash Mob Incident At Liberty Place [KYW] — FLASH MOB
- Plan to Save Writing on the Walls [Wall Street Journal] — Digitally preserving student wall writing after a 35-year veteran Marple Twp. teacher dies
