January 3, 2008 edition


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COVER STORY:

Positive signs on the

Frankford business corridor

City Councilman Dan Savage gave a belated Christmas present to Frankford Avenue last week when he cut the powder-blue ribbon officially unveiling "Welcome to Frankford" banner signs two days after Christmas.
"Now these banners will welcome new patrons to Frankford businesses and encourage more entry into Frankford," Savage said.
Savage (D-7th dist.) likened the idea of blank walls in a new house to the blue steel pillars that hold the El up above Frankford Avenue.
"These banners will add a touch of warmth and class to the Frankford Avenue business corridor," Savage said.
So far the metal banners can be seen only along the 4800 block of Frankford Ave., between Harrison and Fillmore streets. They’ll soon extend all the way down to historic Womrath Park. . . .

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Editorial:

He’s just a politician

"It’s a terrible, terrible thing to be out of shape and unfit," Mayor John Street said during a year-end news conference to announce his final citywide fitness program under the direction of Gwen Foster, his good buddy and extravagantly paid "fitness czar."
We can only hope that, in these last days of his second and final term, the mayor himself isn’t out of shape. He’ll need washboard abs and strong, even breaths as he hauls those heavy money bags filled with nearly $564,000 out of City Hall.
Street should call his final fitness program Take the Money and Run.

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