For those keeping score at home: Philadelphia is not one of the world’s – or country’s – most livable cities. So that’s ugly, miserable, bad for men, good for beer, unlivable. Anyone got any more city ratings systems they wanna try out? Because we’re here. [Reuters]

Heard in the Hall says Tom Knox won’t run. Sorry for this piece of meh news. Did anyone care, anyway? Would anyone have actually voted for him? Oh, but the big news is apparently that Knox will announce something else some time within the next 24 hours. So, yeah. Something. [Heard in the Hall]

Rendell is expected to endorse Nutter today. We guess there’s a group of people not happy with this and they’re called Philly.com commenters. [Philly Clout]

Bob Brady is in Madison, Wisconsin, fighting on the side of the unions. He calls the move by Wisconsin Governor Walker “purely union busting,” which is true. But what happened to his Sarah Palin crosshairs map bill? That thing was going to be awesome. [My Fox Philly]

Oh, and now that there are these union protests, every state is “ripe” for similar circumstances, including every state in this general vicinity of the country. So, watch out! [Every news source]

Here’s what really is spreading: Priest rape and torture allegations. Now in New Jersey. [Newsworks]

How’d we miss this? SEPTA began using its Silverline V railcars yesterday! [Inky]