The Daily Numbers: 40 years of memories that could go under the wrecking ball if Comcast-Spectacor decides to build a hotel at the site of the Spectrum in South Philly.


2 young girls, ages 7 and 9, that a former teacher thought he was meeting along with their mother for a sexual tryst in Delco. Instead he was busted by an undercover county detective.


197,000 registered Republicans in Delco, as opposed to 132,000 Democrats, as all eyes start to look toward the next 7th District congressional showdown.


43, age of Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Williams, the GOP pick to face off against incumbent Democrat Joe Sestak.


322 dollars, the average daily payout on each of the 2,790 slot machines at Chester’s Harrah’s Casino & Racetrack.


30 million bucks, the price tag being looked at for work on Marple Newtown High School.


40 days of non-violence being called for in Philadelphia as a way of honoring former civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


3 archdiocese elementary schools in Philadelophia that will merge as they struggle to stay open amid declining enrollment.


540,000 Pennsylvania residents who will now be eligible for property tax reductions as money from the state’s new slots parlors becomes available next year.


3.13 a gallon, average price for unleaded regular gas in the Philadelphia region. That will take care of the savings on property taxes.


650,000 dollars, what a new business grossed in Philly last year. What do they do? The young couple walk people’s dogs. They charge $40 an hour.


3 separate chunks of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that would be leased out, as part of a plan that also would scrap proposed tolls on I-80 to raise money for transit, highways and bridges in the state.


26 percent jump in the average waiting time when you go to a hospital emergency waiting room, from 22 to 30 minutes, according to a new study.


200 people who showed up for the first of a series of community meetings with new Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey at South Philadelphia High School last night.


90 years in the slammer for two Delaware men convicted in a brutal attack in which three people were beaten along Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia in July 2006.


7 new stores in the works for Saxbys, which will challenge Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts and Wawa in the coffee wars. They’re planning outlets in Haverford and Rosemont.


7 straight losses for the Sixers, who started a road trip by losing in San Antonio last night.


11 years the Kixx have played their games in the Spectrum. That could end if the building is knocked down.


8 wins and 8 losses for the O’Hara boys hoops team. They fell to Bonner, 46-41, last night.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
There is something special about Lambeau Field that comes through even when watching on TV. Last week it was the snow as the Packers frolicked over the Seahawks. Next Sunday it’s expected to be near single digits as they host the Giants in the NFC title game. Frozen tundra indeed.
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I Don’t Get It: One more time. Exactly when will people figure out that you really don’t know who is at the other end of that computer chat, and that the person you think is setting up a sexual tryst is actually an undercover detective?


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Today’s Upper: Don’t look now, but the property tax help promised by the addition of all those slot machines is about to come true.


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Quote Box: “The time that we’ve had to go out and convince people to run is gone.”

-- County Democratic boss Cliff Wilson, on getting candidates to run for office in GOP-dominated Delaware County.