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Dispelling criminal justice narratives with cold hard data

The Philadelphia Bail Fund is making an interactive data portal that displays bail information for every Philly defendant.

• Five city zip codes in North and West Philadelphia accounted for nearly a third of all bail paid last year, according to the tool, which uses info collected from court records for every person charged in the city.

Set to go public next year, the tool is part of an effort to show cash bail doesn’t further public safety, PBF Executive Director Salih Israil told Jordan Levy.

History of the Philadelphia County Fair, and its modern cousin

Pennsylvania is home to well over a hundred county and local fairs, but you won’t find any of them in Philly — at least, not anymore.

• From 1912 through the ’20s, the Philadelphia County Fair in Byberry took up 100 acres and was the talk of the town, drawing people to the midway with horse racing, balloon rides, and giant vegetables.

There was also a modern incarnation in Fairmount Park, Asha Prihar reports, with the annual pie-baking contests and fair activities continuing through 2014.

RECAP: What else happened?

$ = paywalled

• Philadelphia is getting $25 million in federal funding to improve seven roads in the city’s High Injury Network, which account for 80% of traffic deaths and injuries. [KYW]
• Like Memorial Garden in West Philly, the People’s Kitchen community garden in Kingsessing has several plots slated for sheriff’s sale. The nonprofit is currently raising money to buy the land parcels. [Billy Penn/WHYY’s PlanPhilly]
• A long-vacant historic movie theater at Wyoming and North Broad has a new hopeful savior, who’s targeting a relaunch by 2023. [Hidden City]
• This year’s lanterfly brood has officially matured, so it’s time to get your stomping shoes ready. [Billy Penn/NBC10]
• Quinta Brunson signed a big multi-year deal with Warner Bros. to develop more original programming, building off the success of “Abbott Elementary,” her hit sitcom about Philly schools. [Variety/Billy Penn]
• Clipping from the archive: In August 1960, The Inquirer ran a column explaining marinara sauce. “No wonder the question is asked! A search of American cook books yields no answers.” [@avi_wa]

MAYOR WATCH

Mayor Kenney and other city, state, and federal officials host a reception at City Hall to thank everyone involved in Operation Allies Welcome, the effort to resettle people fleeing Afghanistan (5 p.m.). As of March, when the operation officially ended, PHL Airport had welcomed nearly 30,000 people.

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