Philadelphia, PA

Mayor Nutter finally held a press conference yesterday to announce the South Street Bridge is finally coming down in December!

And, of course, an actual date that this project will begin to happen has not yet been released:

“The design phase for the new bridge began in 1995.”

It’ll most likely take them around twenty-four months to finish this project. The city also has an entire web page full of detour maps and other fun .pdf files.

I wonder when the exact date will be announced…

Hmm…it doesn’t really surprise me at all.

Now, we’ve gotta’ give Sarah Palin a hand. She’s been enduring comments that none of us could probably handle. She seems like a lovely woman, but I’m incredibly happy that she will not be our next vice president. Now 2012 may be a different story.

Just last week we mentioned that anonymous people have been releasing comments about Sarah Palin, such as that she did not know that Africa is a continent, and not a country.

Well, Mrs. Palin has made a couple comments on the…err…other anonymous people’s comments about her.

“If there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about NAFTA, and about the continent vs. the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context,” she said. “That’s cruel, It’s mean-spirited. It’s immature. It’s unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away with it, taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It’s not fair, and it’s not right.”

Police in Newark, Delaware are investigating the death of a University of Delaware student early Saturday Morning.

Medics were called to the scene of 28 Annabelle Street in Newark, Delaware around 2:30 a.m. for reports of an unconscious ninteen year old male. The unconscious teen student was transported to Christiana Hospital where he was pronounced dead of an apparent alcohol overdose.

The investigation in the accounts surrounding the teen’s death remains active and no further information is available.

According to eyewitness account, a group of college students were having a contest to see how many shots of alcohol they could do in five minutes.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving says four out of five students drink at college but two out of every five students are considered binge drinkers. The organization also says nearly half of all alcohol consumed by students at four-year colleges, is consumed by underage students.

The University Of Delaware has seen its fair share of deaths.

As you may know, Prop 8, the proposition in California to ban gay marriage; has been passed.

If you would like to help out No On Prop 8, here are some rallies that you can attend in California:

San Fran
The Big SAN FRANCISCO march from the Civic Center is
TODAY, FRIDAY, November 7, 2008
5:30 pm
Market & 7th St.

San Diego
Marriage Equality protest
TODAY, FRIDAY, November 7, 2008
9 pm
6th and Laurel, marching to city hall!

Long Beach
Long Beach Marriage March
TODAY, FRIDAY, November 7, 2008
7 pm
Starting at Redondo & Broadway

Sacramento
Sunday, November 9, 2008
1 pm
At the state capitol (10th and capitol)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=34935479124#wall_posts

Los Angeles / Silver Lake
Saturday, November 8, 2008
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Sunset Junction (Sunset and Santa Monica)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=38682341090&ref=share

Huntington Beach
Saturday, November 8, 2008
2pm
Huntington Beach Pier, Huntington Beach

Laguna Beach
Protest March & Vigil
Saturday, November 8, 2008
5:30pm
City Hall 505 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach
Marching to Main Beach

If can also visit them online at noonprop8.com.

We here at About Philadelphia, PA obviously feel that this proposition should not have been passed.

Barack Obama is already working hard to get things in order!

It was announced today that Illinois U.S. Congressman Rahm Emanuel will be the administration’s chief of staff.

The LA Times reports that Mr. Emanuel previously served in Bill Clinton’s White House and that experience will allow him to guide President-elect Obama on legislative strategy and the workings of the executive branch.

The newly named chief of staff is also known to be tough as nails and a guy who knows how to get shit done.

Very nice.

Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Much of it is about the infighting between Palin and McCain’s staff, as Newsweek’s treasure trove of post-election gossip reveals.

However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency,” in part because she didn’t know which countries were in NAFTA, and she “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.”

Palin was apparently a nightmare for her campaign staff to deal with. She refused preparation help for her interview with Katie Couric and then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the morning and throw “tantrums” over the negative coverage. There were times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced to tears.

So, look, the New York Times has a little fun election map up, and you can zoom in on Pennsylvania and be like, “Wait, Obama won Carbon County?! Hell yea!” Then you can spend the night (or day) laughing, laughing, and laughing at John McCain ’til your lungs get tired.

Just in case you are wondering, Barack Obama received 3,185,991 votes, and John McCain received 2,585,480 votes. 61,416 other votes were for other candidates.

“There are not even words to talk about what this night means. Everybody keeps using the word historic — there’s never been a night like this on the planet earth… Nothing can compare to this.”

- Oprah Winfrey tells Access Hollywood, on Barack Obama’s historic presidential win.

Check out our newly elected president Barack Obama’s acceptance speech above.

Kudos John.

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Fox 29’s Jennaphr Frederick is pregnant.

Frederick, mother of a 3-year-old son, Brody, and husband, Steve, who is “some kind of computer guy,” she says, are expecting a child in the spring.

The couple haven’t yet told Brody about his upcoming brother or sister. “Someone mentioned Santa Claus in late August and every day he’s been asking when Santa is coming, so we figured we’d wait, but we are excited he’s gonna have a little buddy,” Frederick said. She doesn’t plan to discuss her pregnancy on “Good Day Philadelphia,” because “as crazy as I am on TV, I like to tell everyone about other people’s news. I don’t really like to talk about myself.

“People might wonder why I’m fat,” says Frederick, a native of Clearwater, Fla., where the Phillies spring-train.

The incredibly awesome hats that some Phillies and Rays players were wearing during both days of Game 5 of the World Series are finally up for sale on the Phillies website; they’re made by New Era and come two sizes. They’re $40, which sounds like a lot but isn’t too horrible. I mean, it’s not $50.

I’m not a sports fan, but I just may have to get one.

At this point, CNN believes that Barack Obama has won over Pennsylvania.

Our partner believes it as well!