The Daily Numbers: 6.5 hours, length of the new, shorter Mummers Parade on New Year’s Day under a deal OK’d by the groups and the city.
300,000 dollars, cap the city has placed on what it will pay toward the tab for the annual strut up Broad Street.
47,000 dollars, minimum that Mummers organizations likely will be left on the hook for, and that does not count the prize money that has already been eliminated by the city.
50,000 dollars, how much U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, D-1, is vowing to raise to help the Mummers pay their bills.
1 person nabbed and 1 still being sought by police in Norristown in what is being described as a “thrill killing,” basically an execution that took place during a robbery.
1,000 jobs being slashed by health insurer Aetna, 165 of them in the Philadelphia region.
10 percent fewer employees in the airline industry, as compared to this time 4 years ago, and 6 percent fewer that last year.
30 Chrysler production plans in the U.S. being idled for an additional 2 weeks over the holidays. The shutdown takes place Friday and will last a month.
2 years in jail for an electrical contractor in Philly who pleaded guilty to 99 criminal counts, including doing work on a labor leader’s home free of charge.
4.2 billion dollar dip in winnings for Atlantic City casinos in the first 11 months of the year, that’s down 6.7 percent.
18 researchers at the University of Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology being laid off.
2 straight wins for the Sixers, who rallied for to beat the Bucks last night, 93-88.
25 points for Lou Williams, who led the team with a huge effort off the bench.
16 straight wins for the Celtics, who escaped with a win in Atlanta last night, 88-85.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
I give up trying to figure out Donovan McNabb. The guy seems to have some kind “victim” complex. Whatever, it now appears as if both he and Andy Reid will be back for one more year. Let’s all adopt Al Davis philosophy: Just win, baby.
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I Don’t Get It: A man who was the victim of a street robbery in Norristown complied with his attackers. They shot and killed him anyway. Police are referring to it as a “thrill killing.” Nice.
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Today’s Upper: Big boost for our Merry Christmas Fund to help out the Salvation Army with their work yesterday. More than $4,400 poured in, pushing the total over $29,000. We still have a ways to go to hit our $50,000 goal.

Quote Box: “It’s just such an unfair thing to give them such short notice.”
-- James may of Ridley Township, who designs outfits for the Mummers, on the budget cuts imposed by the city on the annual march.